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.

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO. 113
!.,nds must be supplied with water during their
summer growth, to insure a crop. Occasionally a
good crop of grain, wheat, barley and oats can be
harvested along the foothills without irrigation; th's
only when the season is termed wet, and is uncertain. The bottom lands are a rich alluvial deposit,
brought down from the mountains, and when properly
cultivated will give an astonishing vegetable growth
of the grains, except corn (the hot nights that corn
loves are not felt here,) and succulent plants, in
quantity and quality somewhat unusual for large
growth and excellent quality.
The higher lands or plains are composed of a
coarse sandy loam, rich in phosphates, washed down
from the mountains, and are but little used as yet,
except for pasture.
The agriculture along the base of the mountains
north, between the Pacific Railroad at Cheyenne and
Denver, is the development almost wholly of about
two years, and is now nearly one half that of the
whole State. South, in the Arkansas and Rio Grande
valley, thie farming and the population are older,
going back to before the gold discoveries. This is
the Mexican section, and was formerly a part of New
Mexico. Its agriculture is quite extensive, but con
ducted indifferently and ol0 a rough scale, and it is
only the remarkable fertility of the soil that permits
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