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.

VISIT TO THE GEYSERS.
The whole region is a subterranean treasury.of
chemistry. There is no place in the world where
borax is fbund so pure, and in such quantity, as in
the bottom of Clear Lake, not far from here. A few
men can get several tons a day of beautiful crystalized borax.
Some future day, no doubt, science will come to
this now mysterious region, and uncover these hidden treasures in unusual quantities for materials to
be used for the good of man, and that which now
seems to be the breathing holes of the regions infernal, are the means by which God shows his children
where to find these chemicals.
There is no doubt, sulphur enough in this locality
to supply this nation with gunpowder, and ink enough
in the Devil's Inkstand to supply the world. I could
not look upon the Geysers otherwise than a vast
chemical repository, where these minerals have been
thrown together by changes which have taken place
in the earth, and that water has broken in, and coi)
tinues to run in among them under their covering.
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