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 THiE WEST.
A road along Williams' Fork and its tributary, the
Santa Matria, leads to Prescott, but it will need cotnsiderable work to be made popular' A company
was chartered by the Legislature to improve it. In
the opinion of Capt. Walker, the veteran pioneer of
Central Arizona, and of others, the junction of Williams' Fotrk and the Colorado is the natural and best
point for a large town or city; and a town named
Aubry has been laid out there.
Fort Mojave, upon the Colorado, 160 miles above
La Paz, is a noted point, and one of the longest occupied in the territory by the whites. Within a
mile of the fort is Mojave City, a sprightly town
laid out and chiefly built by the California volunteers stationed at the fort for two or three years
past. There are some good agricultural lands in the
vicinity, and gardens abound. The visit of the chief
of the Mojave Indians (Ireteba) to New York and
Washington in 1863-'4, gave him such an exalted
opinion of the white man and the power of tte Gei'
eral Government, that he has not ceased to urge his
people to the most friendly relations, and to habits
of industry and enterprise.
At Mojaye, as at La Paz and Fort Yuma, there is
a well-regulated ferry across the Colorado, with
scows calculated to convey wagons and stock.
Hardyville, nine miles above Mojave, upon the
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