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.
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it seemed to us. We ask ourself, can this be the
desert which only a few years ago was a twin sister
to that just described, full of alkali, salt, sand and
wild sage-all poverty. We are ready to ask, what
master mind established, laid out this city of the
desert, and made it the mountain Eden what it ie
at this time. But as we look away over the country
we learn that this is only one among many evidences
of the workings of a shrewd master mind. We
discover one hundred and thirty cities and villages
planted among the mountain valleys, four hundred
miles to tLe southward and two hundred in the opposite way, and in all about one hundred thousand
people.
The estimated amount of expenditure for canals,
aqueducts and small water courses is ten millions, five
hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars. Ninety
four thousand acres are cultivated by irrigation.
giving to the government, or rather Brigham Young,
an annual water rentage of two hundred and seventy
thousand dollars.
Nothing can be raised in Utah without constant
and careful irrigation. With it everything is
grown in abundance. The use of water as a fertil
izer is'much greater than we ill this land of showers have comprehended. For thousands of years
irrigation has made the country along the river Nile
:the garden of the world.
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