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.
unusual toil, great skill and almost endless experimenting.
Silver ore is quarried, broken and crushed, very
nearly as gold quartz. When ores of either kind are
found in combination with baser metals, after being
finely crushed, it must be roasted in large ovens, un
til the corroding substances are burnt away, before
quicksilver will take up the desirable part.
Silver mining, like all that is montey, is very uncertain. A miner may have a claim today, giving
promise of a fortune, and he could sell it for a hundred thousand dollars, but to-morrow the quartz may
stop, or the lode may be cut off. He may, perhaps,
find it again, after excavating the min- a hundred
or three hundred feet, and he may never find it. In
hunting for it, he may expend all his means, and
more, without finding it, and he finds himself a poor
man, but not discouraged. He packs himself, and
off he rushes to find another claim. He may find
and prospect a hundred, and not find silver in pay.
img quantities. If my observition and experience
be correct, not one lead in a hundred contains ore in
quantities to even pay for working. An experienced man can take from almost any lead a few speci.
mens which will assay rich, while it would be worthless for working. These are the kind of very rice
mines, the product of which have been so often sen'
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