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.

ARIZONA.
Prescott is built exclusively of wood, and inhab
ited almost entirely by Americans, mainly from Cali
fornia and Colorado. Picturesquely located in the
pine-clad mountains, it resembles a town in North.
ern New England. The first house was erected in
June last, and now the town has some hundreds of
inhabitants, and the country for fifty miles about,
including a dozen mining districts and farming valleys, is largely taken up by settlers. The valleys
will, it is thought, produce good crops without irrigationi, as the rains in this region are frequent and
heavy.
The Territorial Government is now permanently
established, giving to all the protection of the laws,
as far as it is possible to do so. Those who are
within the somewhat settled se(tions row have all
the protection necessary for life ald property.
Prescott, the capital, is situated near the center of
the territory; it has a printing establishment,
churches and schools, and is something of a city onl
the plain upon which it stands. It was the principal home station of the Butterfield Overland stages
by the Santa Fe route to San Francisco. Being eligibly located on the north branch of the Gila River,
and having direct communication with the Pacific
coast by a good wagon road to Los Angelos, gives
it a business prominence which will be largely in
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