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.
speckled trout, to the largest rivers and the ocean
bays, all its waters are quite alive with fish. The
ocean bays furnish cod, sturgeon, carp, flounders,
perch, herring, crabs and oysters. All the rivers
along the coast furnish salmon-the largest are taken in Columbia.
They ascend the river twice a year-in May and
October. My presence among the Indians did not
interrupt their fine and abundant fishery. An enormous basket was fastened to a projecting rock, and
the finest fish of the Columbia, as.if by fascination,
cast themselves by dozens into the snare. Seven or
eight times during the day it was examined, and each
time was found to contain two hundred and fifty
salmon. The Indians, meanwhile, were seen on every projecting rock, piercing the fish witli the greatest dexterity.
They who do not know this Territory, may accuse
me of exaggeration when I affirm, that it would be as
easy to count the pebbles so profusely scattered on
the shores, as to sum up the different kinds of fish
which this western river furnishes for man's support;
as the buffalo of the north, and the deer from north
to east of the mountains furnish daily foiod for the
inhabitants of those regions, so do these fish supply
the wants of the western tribes.
One may form some idea of the quantity of sal
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