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 TH E WEST.
some of the sage land canl be reclaimedwhere there
is water, and made somewhat productive. Eastern
Oregon, Eastern Washington and Idaho have the
same general aspect of country. The northerly
portions are heavily timbered, but below the 47th
parallel and between the Cascade Mountains and
the divide of the Rocky Mountains, the country is
made up of mountain ridges, high rolling plains
mostly destitute of timber, and table lands, where
lakes and marshes may sometimes be found. But a
small part of this great region can ever be made
productive, for the want of irrigation, but is valuable for stock-raising purposes.
The Blue Mountains cross Eastern Oregon oblique
ly, and form the water-shed between the waters
which flow into the Columbia and those which floes
east into the lakes, of which the Kalamath is the
largest. These several lakes, with their surrouldings, are somewhat remarkable. Hills thrown carelessly around in all directions, covered with despeiately burnt rock and scoria, the hideous chasinm3,
sharp, pyramidal, needle-shaped rocks of its basaltic mountains, its mysterious reservoirs of water, its
lakes of salt and hot springs in the midst of alkali
plains, seem to fix it for a country uninhabitable b3
civilized man, and the home of the fowl, and the
marauding Intdians after a successful raid into th,
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