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.

WESTERN OREGON.
where grass is the most abundant during the ye,-i,
and where the climate favors most the making of
b)utter and cheese. As already intimated, Western
Oregon-lying between the Cascade Mountains allt
the coast range-is one general valley, containing
as much good farming land as would make a State of
the size of Connecticut, besides two other valleys,
having a large amount of good agricultural land, and
a greater proportion of mountains, but superior fior
grazing and fruit-growing; while the lower valley
has some of California's reputation for mining.
No one can travel through Wall:imet Valley without being impressed with its varied beauty and almost wonderful fertility. Some have pronounced it
the most beautiful valley in America. This is claim.
ing too much for it; yet it can be placed among tlhe
largest and best, of which our extended country has
so many. The beauty of this is made up in agreeable intermixture of level and rolling prairies, with
ranges of low hills, pictured with heavy green forests, maniy gliding, winding rivers skirted with the
finest trees, and in the majesty of the mountains
which gi, rd it from the heat ot eastern deserts, and
the cold of the Arctic seas. Its fertility and beauty
are manifested in the magnificent fo)rests which enbellish all the surrounding hills in everlasting green;
also in the grassy [ledn w]ic;, year ait ter yeLr clothe
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