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 THIE WEST.
thirteen miles more gold than any other place of
equal extent on the continent. It is now wholly cut
to pieces with shafts, ditches and tunnels, and
as miners say, worked out. But the place commands
a large Southern trade, and also from the surrounding
country, together with many remunerative quartz
mines, which are worked by companies, giving the
place more permanency and prosperity than usually
belong to mining towns.
One hundred and twenty miles north is Helena, the
legitimate offspring of Virginia, as is Virginia of Bannack. Unusual rich mines were prospected here, and
the town of Helena at once grew up. The productive
mines, and the general business of the country East
and.North, enabled it to put on the air of permanence and prosperity. It soon became the supply
town for th9 rich placer mines of the Blackfoot
country, and has, no doubt, a prosperous future from
its geographical position, and will become one of the
principal cities, if not the principal city, of the territory.
Montana has produced the largest nugget of gold
yet found in this country, and has yielded more
treasure in proportion to the amount of work done
than any other placer mining country on the continent, and its quartz veins promise to average as
well, or better, than those of many other regions.
186