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.

IDAHO.
Boise Basin, northeast ninety miles, is a mountain
bowl twenty-five miles in diameter, anId contains
some good quartz-bea,ring ledges, but is principally
known as one of the richest placer mining districts.
This saucer-like basin seemed to have been the receptacle for the shining gold, coming along distance
in all directions through the mountain ranges, which
gave it unusual richness.
A few miles from here, in the mountains, is Idaho
City, containing a large mining population, and the
center of several rich quartz districts, with mills for
the reduction of the ore, the cause and life of the
settlement, giving to the place permanence and future prosperity. The richest lead mining district
yet discovered in the territory is seventy-five miles
southwest of Owyhee, itself a straggling town, or
rather towns, among the mountain tops; but the
district is extensive, and embraces some of the
r'chest leads and many gulch mining districts. It
has been more largely developed, being more accessible and the first discovered. The placers were
worked out, but the place is so rich in quartz that
she can afford to lose the other kind of mining. But
few districts in any of the mountains are more wonderfully piled up and broken by subterranean fires
than this, which, no doubt, is the cause of its unusually rich mountain mines.
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