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.

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NEW MEXICO GENERALLY.
healthful at any hight. Santa Fe, the capital and
business metropolis, is situated on a plain, or rather
in a great mountain bowl roof above the level of the
sea, and has a delightful summer climate, and is the
highest town in the United States of any importance,
while the mountains near, whose peaks are always
covered with sl{)w, rise to a hight of 1,200 feet.
In the middle and southern portions of the territory
the whole year is agreeable; the change of seas(:),s
are not any more tlh.n is agreeable and congenial to
health and comf)rt. Tihe sky is generally clear aInd
the atmosphere dry. Pulmonary complaints are not
known. The diseases are few; none but those ()ccasionally contracted by lyiiig too much out on t!le
open ground in winter.
Stock-raising here, as in Northern Texas, is the
most profitable source of income, the whole country
being adapted to this branch of husbandry. Very
large flocks of sheep are raised, and also large nuttihers of mules, to supply the demand North for theim.
Large portions of thie high plains, low hills and v. l
leys are covered with nutritious grasses, sufficielnt
for the p sturage of millions of animals the whole
year, as they require )no more care in winter than in
summer.
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