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.

NEVADA.
to New York and the East, as very many men have
learned by dearly bought experience, first and last.
The mining business is like a lottery, where there is
thousands of blanks to one prize.
The first discovery of silver at Austin was made
l y a pony express rider in July, 1862. The information soon spread, excitement ran high, and the
usual rush of miners, speculators, traders, mechanics,
and all manner of gamblers followed. The townr
was rapidly built up, went through the trying or
deal of infant mining camps, and finally settled down
into a substantial mining and commercial city.
There are no villages in this country; every place
is either a city or a camp; consequently many places
spoken of here as cities, we would call small villages
or settlements.
All the heavy machinery had to come from C(ali
(fornia; also supplies were hauled by teams three
hundred miles and upwards up the Sierras and over
the desert, at a cost of from eight to ten cents per
pound.
The railroad is eighty miies north of the city.
A good wagon road through Reese River valley
connects it with the railroad on the Humboldt Flats.
This valley is the largest and most productive valley in Eastern Nevada; it is nearly a hundred miles
long by from five to ten miles wide, lying between
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