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 q HE WEST.
only metropolis of Nevada, looks as if it had grown
half way up the side of the mountain, near the limit
of vegetation.
I suppose a more forbidding. dreary, desolate spot
exists not on the face of the globe, than the site of
Virginia City, as it was in 1859. Notaliving thing
green on the barren desert waste, if you except a
few, very few stunted cedar bushes, and Hiorace Gree ley's everlasting sage brush, interspersed by now
and then-say, perhaps, ten to the acre-solitaiy
blades of grass; in short, not one attractive, but many repulsive features. Yet, on this naturally miserble spot, whose only redeeming, yet all powerful feature was the mineral hidden beneath its surface, has
in a little over four years, risen a magnificent city,
rivalling many even very prosperous ones on the Atlantic slope, of ten or even twenty years growth.
The locality is forbidding, treeless and verdureless; and sometimes it would seem that all the storm
winds of Heaven were let loose together, by the rapidity with which they sweep through the citysometimes reminding those pedestrians who stand
on slippery places, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Two prospecters in pursuit of gold, discovered here ill 1859 a vein.of dark-colored ore,
which, being assayed, proved to be silver.
.In unusual rush for the somewhat remarkable re
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