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.

MONTANA.
On account of the remoteness and inaccessibility of
the country, lying far north, in the very center of
the mountains, makes labor expensive and very
difficult to transport the heavy machinery to some
of the interior mines. Many companies in the
East have erected quartz mills in various districts,
and generally are being well rewarded.
As we have said, Montana covers a large territory-eight hundred miles from east to west, by
about three hundred from north to south, and is well
named, being wholly within the mountains. It contains several large basins, and unnumbered valleys,
through which flow many rivers and smaller tributaries, in which the permanent settler and the miner
find, and build up homes of plenty and surround
themselves with the comforts of an Eastern home;
and getting prices for their products which would
be almost fabulous in more accessible countries.
While snow lies heavy upon the mountains, cattle
fatten on the bunch grass of the valleys. Summei
and wintter are next-door neighbors. Heire we often
find the greenest vegetation and deep snow less than
a mile apart.
Those who have made themselves more thorough
ly acquainted with Montana, agree in pronouncing
it a delightful mountain country, containing all the
social and political elements out of wlhich to make a
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