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.
versa. The geological formation of this hill and lead
is as singular as its rich ore is rare. Such a formation is very advantageous for mining, as the ore is
in vast quantity, pure and rich, and easily mined.
The exhaustion of the mine is almost a matter of impossibility, and none now living will see it accormplished. Here began the first silver mining in the
United States.
This is the continental belt ot the metalliferous
deposits, is of vast extent and richness, is about three
hundred miles wide, and establishes its geological
connection with the historic mines of Mexico and
Peru, and extends as far north as the persevering
miner has yet prospected. Precisely on this line in
the Mexican States, are the great silver mines, which
have been worked for three and a half centuries by
the Spaniards-furnishing'the world with large quantities of silver coin and bullion.
This is but a portion of that vast region of tile
precious metals, extending along the volcanic formation, from the Andes in South America, to the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. The principal mineral
wealth of the world has been found in the mountain
ranges which look out over the Pacific Ocean.
Nevada is justly called the" Silver State," although
her mining is yet in its infancy. The yield is enormous. In the short space of ten years, she has climb,
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