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.
A quicksilver mine discovered near La PI,z is at
tracting considerable attention in San Francisco.
The fa-ce of Yuma County is for the most part
mnountainous and barren, although the Colorado bot
tom, and occasional valleys, are fertile, and the India)', h-,v,' fine crops. Wood sufficient for fuel and
for present miniling operations is found in the mountain ravines and along the streams.
A main highway from the Colorado to Central Arizona starts from La Paz, and is one of the smoothest
natural roads I have ever seen. Its course to the
Hassayampa River (110 miles,) is almost an air-line,
and in the whole distance there is nothing to obstruct
the passage of the frailest vehicle or of the heaviest
train. It lacks a sufficiency of water and of grass
for animals, and a company chartered by the Legis.
lature is taking steps to provide wells and feeding
stations. The road will connect at La Paz with that
from San Bernardino, which is smooth, with but lit
tle sand, and aiready provided with tainks and sta
tions. The whole distance from San Bernardino tr)
Prescott, the capital of the Territory, is less than 350
miles. Emigrants from California to Central Arizona travel by these roads, or by those of about the
same length from San Bernardino to Fort Mojave,
and from there to Prescott.
Sixty miles from La Paz, on the road to Prescott
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