Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
grass, and gardens filled with usefiul and necessary
vegetables. As agriculture is the under stratum
upon which all other interests rest-the "philosopher's stone," to which all must come for their very
existence-I viewed this land's resurrection with unusual interest and pleasure.
Colorado is so located as to form a substantial center in the grand constitutional formation of States;
she contains to a large extent the stiffening of the
continent. Located as she is in the center of the
vast region, bounded by the Mississippi Valley on
the east, the Pacific Ocean on the west, British
America on the north, and Mexico on the south,
the continental mountain ranges stand up here in
their majestic proportions; spreading themselves
round with a conscious greatness and a wantonness
of power. Colorado's gold, silver, lead, zinc, iron
and copper, are hid away under their huge shadows.
They send forth fountains of the purest water, that
forces itself in many directions through the interior
of the continent. capable of supplying a wealth of
agriculture in the valley and on the plain hardly to
be anticipated.
On the bottom lands, along the streams, grain and
vegetables may be successfully grown without irrigation, of which the streams offer good facilities for
successfull, remunerative farming, while the liig),,'r
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