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.

ij CHAPTER XXXV. NEVADA-MINES AND MINING-AGRICULTURAL PRO DUCTS-PHYSICAL ASPECTS. Passing from this great inland basin of Utah from Mormon development, we travel over an unusually frowning, barren, alkali, ever-present sage brush country, seemingly useless, except to hold the continent together and teach patience to travelers, a distance of three hundred and seventy-five miles to Austin, the center of mining in Eastern Nevada, as Virginia City is in the Western. These two are the most conspicuous and representative places of silver mining on the Pacific coast or on the continent. Austin is the metropolis, the business center for a very large mining section north, east and south, for bundreds of miles, where the distant mining camps obtain supplies and transact their principal business. The town is built near the center of Reese River valley, on the east side, and like most mining towns, is straggling, crowded in a canyon between high, ashen, treeless, naked mountains, towering up hundreds of feet high on either side the principal thoroughfare. Tunnels, shafts, ditches, and various other excavations. with immense piles of granite i -C i I I 'i i i i i i I 1 i I i I i I IIi I i Ii .1 I

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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.
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Buffalo, N.Y.,: Baker, Jones & co.,
1873.
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West (U.S.) -- Description and travel

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"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." In the digital collection Making of America Books. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba1066.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2025.
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