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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tions for an agriculttrral settlement of any between
thle Rio Grande and the Colorado. The same au
tlhority says a district north of and immediately con tiguous to'the Gila River is, par excellence, the finest
agricultural district in our territories lying iti the
same latitude, between Eastern Texas and the Pa cific-for the great extent and richness of the soil;
the abundance and excellence of the water; the cot tonwood timber for building purposes; the fine quar ries of stone in the adjacent hills, and for the facili ty with which it may be approached from every
quarter.
The district in question lies at the junction, and
in a measure forms the delta of the Salinas and Gila
Rivers. It lies but a little above the bed of the river, and might be, in consequence, easily irrigated.
The arable bottom land is from two to four miles in
width, and is overgrown with mesquit; while on the
river's margin grow large cottonwoods. The river
is from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet wide,
from two to four feet deep, and both rapid and clear.
I these respects it differs from the Gila, which is
sli ggish and muddy for two hundred miles.
A portion of the Gila valley is occupied by two
tribes of Indians, noted for their good traits-the Pimas and Maricopas. The lands cultivated extend
from sixteen to twenty miles along the river, center
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