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.

BASTERN OREGON.
almost famished oxen, after traveling with heavy
loads a long summer day, and often longer, to find
one of these God-giving places. Their appreciative
thankfulness, with eyes dancing in their sockets,
literally laughing all over, I could understand more
fully the request of the great Webster, when he ordered his man to drive his oxen up that he might
see their honest faces once more before he died;
so that when they had set foot within the ever beautiful verdant valleys west of the Cascade Mountains, the brown-colored hills and forbidding plains
now of Idaho and Eastern Oregon were remembered
only as "that God-forsaken country."
However, some emigrants were intelligent enough
to observe as they passed evidences of extensive
mineral deposits, but never looked bforward to seeing this region, in their estimation, occupied, and
its mineral wealth filling up the treasury of the
world; and, least of all, did they foresee that some
of this unblessed country would ever be what can
now be seen in many of its fertile valleys, "blossoming like the rose." Such is Eastern Oregon.
However, there is a very great disproportion between the good and bad land in this portion of the
State. There are many mountain ranges-alkali
plains, that would make better soap than wheat and
sage deserts. There is no hope for the alkali, but
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