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.
and reddish earth, show the persevering industry
of the minters-like a prairie dog village, magnified
from mole-hills to mountains.
Several large quartz mills are located here, owned
by companies in the Eastern States; some very expensive, costing over two hundred thousind dollars.
But few of them have as yet been remunerative to
their owners. Some never started on the work for
which they were built. Most mining companies thii)nk
that when they can get a mill their fortunes will be
made. Here lies the disappointments and the heavy
losses to very many who make mining investments.
They discover when too late that they have done
their first work wheie they should have done their
last-began at the wrong end of the business. No
individual or company, if they know their interest,
will think of erecting a quartz mill until their
mine or mines in the vicinity are sufficiently developed to insure paying nmill work. Mining is an uncertain business, and those who build expensive
mills without first getting out paying ore enough
to pay for erecting a mill, are very likely to be ultimately disappoirnted, and their imaginative fortune
not realized. Expensive mills can now be seent
about tl'e country rottin)g down for want of paying
ore to work. Maniy nmills have b)een built where the
prospects at the time were favorable, but after the
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