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 THE WEST.
sic. About twenty-five miles down the river, in a
deep canyon, with volcanic walls three hundred feet
high, there pours out through the side some distance
frotm the bottom twenty or more large streams, some
as large round as a common barrel, lashed into spray
as they leap down jutting rocks at the bottom, form itig a stream nearly a hundred feet wide-sup posed to be the resurrection of the Mahlad River which was buried while alive in the Comas plain
fifty miles away.
Boise City, located at the head of navigation
through the Columbia and Snake rivers, is the capital as well as the commercial metropolis of Idaho.
It is a trading, not a mining town, in the level valley of Boise river-a valley fifty miles long by about
six wide, with agricultural pretensions. It will grow
wheat, barley, and all the variety of vegetables,
enough to supply a large population. The broad,
level, treeless streets, with their low warehouses,
little cottages, log cabins and stage coaches, wagons,
speculators, miners, farmers and Indians, reminds
one of a border settlement, a kind of portable caravansary, not uncommon along the borders of civilization.
The principal mining centers and farming interests of Idaho are located within a hundred miles of
Boise, which secures to it the monopoly of the general hbuiness of the tarr;tforv.
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