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 THE WEST.
also it gathers up the northern waters of Nevada
and Utah. The Owyhee, the Boise, the Payette, the
Salmon and the Clearwater are all tributaries of the
southern branch, the Snake.
Wallulee, situate a little below the junction, is
beautifully located, and is a place of commercial importance, where mining outfits are procured and
large supply trains leave for the distant mines.
Should the business of the upper country increase,
as there is every reason to believe it must, the place
will grow large and prosperous.
The banks of the Columbia here are low, having
the samne general appearance, running through a
great sandy plain. Nothing is in sight from the
steamer's deck but expanded rolling plains, with
scattered bunch grass. Back a dozen miles or more
timber is visible, and farther back in the mountains
heavy forest is in abundance for lumbering purposes. For sixty miles of the ninety down to the rapids, not a single tree is visible, except such shrubs
as grow oil the sand bars and islands.
Not far above Celilo (the head of the rapids) comes
in the Des Chutes River, rapid and wide at its entrance; also, twenty miles up, the John Day River
comes in by a high-walled entrance, which quite
hides its approach. After these large accessions,
the Columbia assumes her great power down the
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