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.
ing at the Pima villages. Irrigating canals conduct
the water of the Gila over all the district. The Indians raise wheat, corn, millet, beans, pumpkins and
melons, in great abundance. They also'raise a superior quality of cotton, from which they spin and
weave their own garments. There is a steam grist
mill at the,Pima villages, and a large quantity of
excellent flour is annually made. I have no doubt
that the Gila bottoms alone afford arable land sufficient to raise food for a densely-populated State.
But these are by no means all of the agricultural
lands of Yavapai County. The Val de Chino, so
called by Whipple, where Fort Whipple was first
established, and the territorial officers first halted,
is nearly one hundred miles in length, and abounds
in tillable and pastural lands. The valley of the
Little Colorado, on the 35th parallel, is large and
well adapted to cultivation. There are numerous
other valleys near to Prescott, and the road from
the Colorado River, via Mojave and Hardyville, to
that place, is described by a recent traveler as being
"for over a hundred miles of the way a prairie
country that would compare with the best in the
world for grazing, and with most of the Western
States for agriculture."
In timber lands Yavapai County exceeds all others in the territory. Beginning some miles south
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