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 THE WEST.
parallel of 37 deg. north latitude; on the west by
the line of 113 deg. 20 mi. west longitude, and on
the south by the middle of the main channel of the
Gila River. The seat of justice is established at
Prescott, which is also the capital of the Territory.
Yavapai County embraces a part of Arizona as yet
unknown to the map makers, and in which the Territorial officers arrived hard upon the heels of the
first white inhabitants. Until 1863, saving for a
short distance above the Gila, it was even to the
daring trapper and adventursomno gold-seeker a terra
incognita, although one of the richest mineral, agricultural, grazing and timber divisions of the Territory, and abundantly supplied with game. Yavapai
County is nearly as large as the State of New York.
The Verde and Salinas Rivers, tributaries of the Gila, which run through its centre, abound in evidences of a former civilization. ilere are the most externsive and impressive ruins to be found in the Territory-relics of cities, of aqueducts, acequias and
canals; of mining and farming operations, and of other employments, indicating an industrious and enterprising people. Mr. Bartlett refers to these ruins
as traditionally reported to him, to show the extent
of the agricultural population formerly supported
here, as well as to furnish an argumtnent to sustain the
opinion that this is olie of the nmost desirable po-i
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