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 TUE WEST.
round Cape Horn, a distance of nineteen thousand
miles. There was at one time thirty odd vessels
pushing their road around Cape Horn, loaded with
locomotives, rails and other articles for this road.
Among the heavy forest of the Sierra Nevadas
were a quarter of a hundred saw mills, making for
the road six hundred and twenty-five thousand feet
of lumber daily. A thousand men were engaged
daily to supply the mills with logs. Their axes were
the first echoes of civilization that rang through this
part of the mountains and caused the mighty woods
to lie down and make a road for the nations. The
mountains, nearly inaccessible, gave forth timber
and stone, with a remarkable liberality. The two
roads laid down generally seven hundred tons of
iron daily during the working days. One road laid
over ten miles of rail in a single day and the other
one laid eleven. Eight thoust nd Chinamen were
employed, and the road could not have been built
as soon, nor as cheaply, had it not been done by
these people. They proved to be the most profitable workmen for the company. Among them all
there were no murders, no use for vigilance organizations, no disturbances, no whisky shops, and consequently no drunkenness. These heathenish children set a good example for those building the other
road. The road goes slowly up the mountains. If
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