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.

BEIYOND THE WEST.
ing of the mine to prevent its caving, and the nma
chinery requisite to do the inmenlse work. It {s
estimated that there is more lumber under the town
than in the whole City of Virginia above ground.
The deposit is from thirty to eighty feet wide, much
of it loose, requiring only shoveling up. Some of
the richest of the ore has been) sent to Swansea, in
Wales, for crushing. These mills guarantee to ex tract all the silver, to the full amount of scientific
assay; whereas no mills in the State will agree to
return more than eighty per cent. of the assay. The
quartz here is more easily reduced than any other
in Nevada-it being free from corroding substances,
sulch as the sulphates, pyrites of iron, arsenic, &c.;
does not require roasting, like the ore at Austin and
most other mining districts, which make about half
difference in the milling expenses. The Gold Cur ry Company took from their claim-within a space
of five hundred and fifty feet in length by less than
five hundred in depth-Fifteen Million Dollars. Tlie
i stamps put in opertion here have given larger re turns than in any other mining region on this Conti nent. The Comstock has a constitution of its own,
different from most silver mines, but has an increas itig and varying richness, like other mines.
A body of ore small at the surface may, at a great er or less depth, expand to a great size-and vice
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