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.

IBEYOND TiE WEST.
Prescott, the capital, is in the heart of a mining
district, second, in my judgment, to none upon the
Pacific coast. The surface ores of thirty mines of
gold, silver and copper, which I had assayed in San
Francisco, were pronounced equal to any surface
ores ever tested by the metallurgists, who are among
the most skillful and experienced in the city, and, so
far as ore has been had from a depth, it fully suistains its reputation. The veins are large and boldly
defined, and the ores are of varied classes, usually
such as to be readily and inexpensively worked,
while the facilities for working them are of a supe
rior order. At the ledges is an abundant supply of
wood and water; near at hand are grazing and farming lands, and roads may be opened in every direc.
tion without great cost. The altitude is so great
that the temperature is never oppressively warm;
the nights, even in midsummer, are refreshingly cool
and bracing. The ascent from the river by the roads
from La Paz and MIojave is so easy, that with the
small amount of work already done upon the same,
the heaviest machinery may be readily transported.
The distance by either road is about one hundred
and sixty miles and the charge for freight from six
cents to eight cents per pound. Contracts may now
be made for the delivery of machinery at Prescott
from San Francisco, via the Colorado, for ten cents
per pound.
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