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.

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in tdvance in all improvements which are properly
a success, of any made east of the mountains.
Here, as in all our large qu'artz regio)ns, the larger
portion of capital invested has been lost through incompetency, recklessness and bad mtnanagemnent, by
buying worthless mines at ruinous prices, and expending immense sums in the construction of mills,
before ascertaining whether they had paying ore to
justify the very heavy expenditure. The high hopes
and golden dreams of very many good companies
have been badly wrecked on these before unheeded
and unguarded rocks in the mining business.
But enterprises, conducted with as much caution
and careful judgment as is exercised in any other successful, legitimate business, will generally be largely rewarded. Quartz mining, however, has now only lived through a few ot its infant years; but with
its good start, will grow year by year, until it is one
(,f the leading national interests, and holds out favorable inducements to the discriminating use of indust,ry and capital.
The early history and discovery of gold in Idaho
is that of Montana. Far away from civilization in
unknown mountains-amid hostile Indians-the first
prospecters pushed steadily forward, for many long
and lonely months, after the fi,-st discovery of gold
in 1862. After its richness was demonstrated. the
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