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 CENTRAL PACIFIC COMPANY.
eet one they can neither climb over nor go
h; therefore, -around and up it the track
ill a point is reached high enough to move
on the opposite ridge of another mountain
ery high trestled work. In one place the
es six miles round a mountain and makes but
ead; they come to solid granite mountains
w ust be blasted away, and the track clings to
des', or a tunnel is driven through them.
are fifteen tunnels, which united would
to six thousand two hundred and sixty-two
D the sides of the great mountain dashes the
aters of the American River, a mere brookle the surrounding mountains rise till their
e covered with perpetual snows. Nearly
h er the eternal snows is the little "Summit
' about a mile in length by half the distance
and looks as if it had moved away from a
ngenial sunshine to spend a summer amid
, desolate rocks, volcanic mountains and
snows. Then comes the long tunnel through
emit range, through rock as hard as porphyry,
Ild be blasted only by glycerine, seven thouet above sea level. The track now climbs
he mountain side; where the rock is the very
kind of granite the excavations were made
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