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.
it to be profitable, for the people are indolent, ignorant and degraded Mexicans. The simple and eco
nomical habits of these people, together with the
productiveness of the soil, make them quite rich.
Some of the large farmers are wealthy. Corn grows
here, as the liights -ire warmer. I was told there
had been raised here over 300 bushels to the acre.
Colorado offers good inducements to the emigrant
farmer. The Cache-a-la Paudre is the most northern
valley of Colorado, and finds a market at Cheyenne;
it has 200,000 acres of tillable lands, of which but
comparatively little is yet in use; and its lands can
be made very productive; is near a good market;
hlolds out large inlucements for farming enterprise;
well applied labor is most sure to be rewarded here,
perhaps not more so than in many other places.
As a grazing., stock-raising country, Colorado pre.
sents unlimited advantages. Grasses are abundant
on the mountain sides, in the valleys, all along and
over the low ranges as they shade off down to the
plains; the animals can roam at will, and a single
man can tend a large herd. Nature does the haying,
cures the grass standing in July and August, and
animals not only live but fatten upon the dried
grass in the low valleys during thie winter months.
Most of the plains are not properly a worthless desert, but are nature's great continental pasture ground.
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