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.

SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS.
dure. No part of our journeying over the Conti
nent gave richer or greater variety of experience,
more grand beauty of landscape, more extraordina,
ry knowledge, more pleasure than over these remarkable mountain ranges. We pass the vast and
lofty mountains; we are among the beautifully rounded foot-hills in the bewitching valleys that sleep beneath these lofty mountains, within whose dark recesses is earth's banking-house; within them are hidden the sleeping gold and silver, a mineral wealth
which no one will presume to estimate.
Already from them have been carried away millions of shining gold, which has entered all the avenues of trade, and brought independence to many a
before poor home.
But California may bid adieu to those who were
lured to her by dreams of sudden fortune-to the
golden days of the past-as she has built upon the
sure foundations of exhaustless agricultural resources an empire to endure while there shall be seed
time and harvest. The mountain streams. which a
few years ago the gold hunter conducted among the
lower hills to wash out grains of gold, are now applied to the parched earth, and give certain return
in streams of wine and rich harvests.
After our long travels over mountain and desert,
these pleasant valley-homes, embowerod with trees,
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