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.
without inside supports of any other building. A
large number of cut stone columns are, first built about
twenty-five feet apart, the space between to be
filled with large folding doors, to open in summer
and close inll winter. The superstructure is one of
the most perfect specimens of architecture that can
be found anywhere; its amplitude and beauty demands admiration. The largest organ in the world,
as they say, is now being built for their use here.
The foundation to their Temple is finished, and if
completed according to the beginning and plan, will
be a magnificent erection. The hard earnings of a
poor, ignorant and bigoted community are here piled
up, layer upon layer, stone upon stone heavenward,
worthy of a better expenditure, to gratify the aspiration and perpetuate the ignominious name and
fame of a great selfstyled patriarch and potentate.
We envy not the man who has no better monu
ment to go down to posterity (in these times) than
to build Egyptian Pyramids out of the hard earnings of the poor working man, like some of the kings
of the old world, who supposed they had a divine
right to pile up, if they chose, all the rest of mankind to make themselves a road to get into heaven.
Salt Lake City, July 5, 1867. G. W. P.
It would seem that something good can come
even out of Nazareth. The following effusion was
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