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.
gion began; the mine being rich, a city sprung up
like Jonah's gourd-not upon a hill, but on the side
o' one which cannot be hid.
The city is built over its wealth; consists in one
very unusual deposit of ore, the celebrated Comstock
Ledge, which has proven to be one of the most remarkable deposits of the kind on the Continent-unknown any where else in the world-more a wonderful blow-up or deposit, than a lead.
We go down its shafts many hundred feet; meander through the many drifts on the different levels
of the main shaft; saw the toiling miner st work.
There are hundreds of men down here, but the
place is so vast you hardly see half a dozen together. You hear a little rumble, and suddenly meet a
loaded car, a miner shoving it, his candle stuck in
his hat or in an upright of his car; or you come
hastily upon two or three men running from a blast
which they have just fired; or you hear the picks
of a gang down the passage, but you cannot see a
man in the gross darkness. When one has stumbled
along many hundred feet in various directions, and
when the little basins have thoroughly wet one's feet,
and the percolating streams have soaked head and
shoulders. we are quite willing to go back to daylight and civilization.
We examined the extensive subterranean timber
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