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.

NE,W MEXICO GENERALLY.
This valley is from one to fifteenl miles wide, is
capable of supporting a population large enough for
a small State. The bottom lands are remarkably
productive; also the lowv sloping foot-hills, with a
light gravelly soil, when irrigated and properly tilled, give a growth of almnost any crop put upon them,
that will fill a mountain valley home with enough
and to spare, with comparatively little labor, for both
the soil and climate unite in a remarkable degree to
assist those who turn its rich furrows to the sun,
and put in the seed. As the season for vegetation
is very long, often two crops are grown in one year
from the same land. Vegetation through all this
country makes a much more rapid growth than it
does in the more northern States. As there is but
little rain here during the year, scarcely no winter
in the low valleys, and the almost constant sunshine,
with a proper system of judicious irrigation, these
valleys will produce, and can be depended upon like
a hot-bed.
But eleven years ago, this large territory was acquired by the United States. At that time the
Ranchers cultivated the land on original principles,
such as, I suppose, was used when "Adam delved
with a hoe, remarkable only for its antedeluvian existence; a wooden plow made of a forked tree, such
as was used on the plains of Syr-a, and in Persia,
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