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 TIIE WEST.
perly worked. Some of the mines have been in.
differently worked at times for over two hundred
years by the Spaniards and Mexicans. The Santa
Rita Mines are known to halve been worked centuries ago. The precious metals, gold, silver, copper,
iron and zinc, are known to be vely liberally distributed in large quantities over the country. Wherever they have been developed to any extent they
have given evidence of richness and permanence,
and the farther they have been sunken upon the
more profitable they have been.
In the mountains surrounding the old trading
town of Santa Fe, where the miners were somewhat
protected from the Indians, they have taken out
large quantities of silver. There can be no doubt
but that New Mexico will become one of the very
best mining sections of this country. The climate
favors work remarkably. Tile whole year is much
more favorable to these interests here than farther
noieth.
The old people of Mexican towns look older than
in any other country. There is a local proverb
that this region is so healthy that the oldest inhabitants never die; but lean, attenuated and wrinIkled,
like Egyptian mummies, dry up ultimately an(t ire
blown away.
The climate varies with the altitude, and is very
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