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.

THE QUICKSILVER MINE.
company was organized to work the mine. Thbey
commenced operations on a large scale in 1847, and
expended up to June, 1850, Three Hundred and Eigh
ty-Seven Thousand Dollars more than their receipts!
During that year, a new process was discovered by
one of the workmen, a blacksmith, which proved to
be a successful treatmentof the ore-when the company constructed fourteen smelting furnaces upon
the same principle.
The process of extracting the quicksilver from the
cinnabar is quite simple. The company have a brick
building two hundred feet long, with a furnace iil
one end, which is filled with cinnabar and covered
securely up. A fire is then made in the furnace,
from which, through a perforated wall of brick on
the opposite side, the fumes, which are quicksilver in
the form of vapor, pass into the condensing rooms.
There are thirteen in number, divided by thick
walls, each room eighteen feet high and fifteen wide,
with an opening of a foot the whole length of the
partition at the top of one, and at the bottom of the
other. Through these openings, the fumes alter
nately going over one wall and under the next,
through all the thirteen compartments, so that when
it reaches the last room it is wholly condensed, and
the floor being on an incline, the quicksilver runs to
the lower end of the ro)om, thence through a pipe
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