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.

ARIZONA.
tradeis' will never regret the choice they htve
made. It is supposed) and I believe correctly, that
the Rio Grande valley offers settlemenrt to 50,0,00
people, within the Arizona boundaries. West of
this the country is broken, a sucession of table
lands moderately ascend(ling for nearly a hundred
miles to the Sierra Madre Mountains; {rotn there
gently descendinrg until they reach the Gulf of Cati fornia-about 500 miles.
The country south of the Gila River has two
well defined ranges of mountains, known as the Chir aca-heei and Santa Rita. They, are the prolongati,n
of those r,inges wshich lhave yielded silver so largely,
northward in Nevada atid extend southward in So) nora, Chihunihua and Durang, which have givel
millions of silver for centuries past to astonish tile
world by their massive returns of the precious ores.
Arizona has now beei prospected and developed(
sufficiently to prove, beyond a peradventure. tlhtt
her mines of gold, silver and copper are extensive,
eligibly located, well defined, and as far as worked,
exceedingly rich. They are mostly found in regular
formation of trap and porphyritic rocks, and undisturbed by volcanic,action. The ores are more easily worked than in some other places, and can be
more inexpensively reduced. Silver is never found
detached like gold, but is found only in the original
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