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.

MONTA NA.
I)most agre(eable scenery, and there is nothing left to
desire which should constitute a happy home for
thousands of hardy emirl-ant,.
THE CLIMATE OF MONTANA.
The first remark of those who have not properly
considered the matter, is, that a railroa.d so far north
would be in wvinter obstructed by snows, which the
re,l facts contradict, and will convince the intelligent reader that of two roads, the Central and the
Northern, the latter would not be as liable to Snow
blockade as the former. The altitude of the Rocky
Mountains in the latitude of Montana is two thousand feet less than it is on the line of the Central
Road. The climate is modified and softened by the
warm winds that come fromn the warm plains of the
southwest over the hot springs of a lirge section of
volcanic country in its southern part. Another
modifying circumstance is the isothermal line which
sweeps across it and takes its course westwardly to
Puget's Sound, which has an aItnual temperature of
50 deg., thus settling the question of climate. Thlere
is, however, another fact in this connection in favor
of Montana. If the reader has noted the fact, he
has observed that the hunters and trappers of the
Rocky Mountains never wintered down or about the
South Pass, but their favorite wintering grounds
were upon the Yellow Stone, or upon some of the
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