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 THE WEST.
blades of alkali grass about the spring, bult with
more barley, with which we had supplied ourselves
at twelve cents per pound, coin, we resumed our
journey and traveled twenty miles to the Hiot Springs,
and camped for the night. The traveler's heart re
joices when he comes to one of these life-giving
places, nearly famished with heat and thirst.
No one can appreciate the suffering to people and
animals which often occurs while traveling over portions of this country in summer.
We stop on the way to examine a salt marsh, of
which the State has several. This is the largest and
the purest salt. Here, in a basin, between the
mountain ranges, is about ten acres, covered with
coarse salt-quite a good article-nature's salt
works. Planks are laid down, and men, with wheelbarrows, shovel it up where found the thickest and
the best, and wheel it out where wagons can take on
a load. It is put in coarse sacks of a hundred pounds
or more each, and sent off for family use and for
quartz mills, as but little ore can be successfully
treated without it. Very much of the quartz miining would be a failure were it not that this indispensable article is found largely in this mining part
of the continent. Freighters were here loading for
the distant mines of Idaho and Montana. Large
quantities are carted over the country friom here in
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