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.

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There they come up and up from almost intermin able depths; each one as he passes, panting and
pufil-)g and wheezing like a high-pressure steamboat,
as with straining nerve and quivering muscle he
staggers under the load which nearly bends him doub
le.'Ihose are the t~ nateras, carrying the ore from the
mine to deposit it in the cars. The ore is placed in
e flat leather bag, with a band two inches wide that
passes around the forehead, the weight restiDg along
the shoulders and spine. Two hundred pounds oft'
rough ore are thus borne up flight after flight of perpendicular steps-now winding thriough deep caverns, or threading the most tortuous passages; again
ascending passages that have a poor apology for
steps, where one unwary step would plunge him beyond a possibility of human life. Not always, however, do they ascend; they sometimes come from
above, yet we should judge the daTnger and toil i(, be
nearly as great in one case as in the other. Thirty
trips will these men make in one day from the lt(weubt depths.
We will now follow these hardy Mexicans, as they
loa( the car with the contents of thleir <cks,and run
after it with shouts of laughter, as the change from
the mine to the warm sunshine is most inspiriting;
and when they have reached the end of the track
they handle the great lumps of ore scarce ly without
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