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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EASTERN OREGON.
though a delightful country, suitable for cultivation
or grazing. Here were the. famous pastures of the
Nez Perce Indian chief, whose band of horses nutmbered sometimes two thousand head.
Down among the foot-hills, signs of better life and
cultivation increase-become more apparent to the
Walla Walla Valley, where the settler can gather
about his humble home beauty and fertility. This
is a large and productive valley, and is now quite
largely populated with a healthy farming interest.
Wheat, barley, oats, corn, fruit and vegetables, grow
largely.
The town of Walla Walla, at the head of navigation on the Columbia, is a place of commercial inmportance-it being the principal supplying place of
Eastern Oregon, Northern Idaho, and the eastern
part of Washington Territory. Besides, it is in the
centre of an excellent grazinig country, where grass
and water are abundant, with a climate dry and
healthful; short winters and long summers.
Eastern Oregon embraces all that portion of Oregon lying east of the Cascade Mountains, known in
California as the Sierra Nevada, and was for a long
time supposed to be a desert country, unblased in
any essential way for the use of civilized man.
More particularly so, when the emigration to this fir
off land came over-land fr,)m the old States and Ter
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