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.
-nd converted it into fruitful fields, filling homes
with plenty and gladness.
The summer here is about eight months long, and
dry; the winters are mild and open; the fall of snow
is light in the valleys and heavy on the mountains.
This, like all the mountain country, is one of the
healthiest that can be found. In such an atmosphere lung and throat diseases have no chance.
Sad experience has shown the folly of sending consumptives to the tropics. The invigorating air of
high, dry regions, away from salt water, has proven to
be the most healthful.
Salt Lake City is on the commercial line across
the continent, and holds a future in it. The invalid
and the pleasure seeker can now pack their trunks,
step aboard the cars, and in a few days arrive for a
season at this mountain Saratoga, with pleasure,
and if in pursuit of health, with profit. The hot
Mineral Springs here have much curative virtue.
The bathing is delicious, invigorating, cleansing and
softening the skin to the texture of a child, and is
said to be a sure cure for rheumatic cripples, and a
restorative for scrofula and consumptive diseases.
You see here several of these hot springs boiling
up like a heated reservoir; one spouting up a column of boiling water as large round as a man's body:
some moderately warm and less active, while others
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