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.
une valley with renewed, beautiful verdure, and also
in the mniny waving, gollden harvest fields which are
now interspersed among the universal green. Nature is prolific. The soil and climate invite labor
with almost a sure promise of reward, on account
of the uniformity of the seasons by which the maturing of crops become a certainty. The produc.
tion of wheat must, as it has been, be one of the
principal productions of the State. Oregon "has the
largest compact body of good wiheat land on the Pacific slope, which, surrounded and intermingled with
never-failing water power, makes the WIllaImet Valley adapted by nature for the cheap manufacture of
breadstuffs."
Wiile WVestern Oregon is so very prolific in agri.
cultural productions, its timber and lumbering resources are equally as much so. The principal timn
ber used for lumber are the firs and cedars. ThIese
grow beside the streams and on the mountain ranges, affording excellent facilities for milling and for
exporting lumber. Along the Columbia river from
Dalles to its mouth, a distance of two hundred miles,
ire dense forests of very large trees which make the
hest of lumber. Much of it finds a market in San
Francisco and the Sandwich Islands.
No finer fisheries are to be found than here. From
t:le highest mountain torrent, filled wsith delicious
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