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.

THE ROAD FROM CHEYENNE.
To supply Salt Lake City with an abundance of
water they went back in the snowy mountain
ranges a distance of forty miles, dug a canal, with
lateral ditches, making in all nearly a thousand miles
of water course concentrating in a small river before arriving at the city. But during the time of
irrigation, after the parched earth has been supplied, you go below the city and see the little
brook which seems to say: "I am what is left of the
great mountain stream after the city has drank all
that it wants." Wherever a mountain'stream can be
found they bring it down in the valley, and is made
the means of a settlement. After water is available
the rest is easy; build a cayote house, which one man
can do in a day, then set up housekeeping and begin farmhing. A cayote house is a small cellar dug
in the ground with a few boards placed up over the
hole as a roof. The now poor farmer occupies this
until his farm ~never to exceed forty acres by their
law) enables him to build one of adobe brick.
There is through all this country a horizontal
rather than a perpendicular agriculture adapted to
irrigation. There is no place on our continent
where such extensive works of irrigation have been
made and in use as those in the Great Salt Lake
Basin, by an isolated and an outcast people. Hei'e
are at least in all one hundred and twenty thousand
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