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.
produce anything. Consequently this more important blaiJch of industry was for a long time
neglected. But timue passed on; necessity and
the usual quick observation and the adaptation of
our people to circumstances, soon learp,e t,hem that
they were not only in a golden land, Jut also in the
midst of a region unequaled in the world for agricultural productiveness.
California is about eight hundred miles long by
two hundred wide. It has two parallel mountain
ranges its whole length. Much of it.s so ieeep and
broken that cultivation is impossible. Yet it is supposed the State can support a population of twenty
millions by her (wn resources.
A wise Providence seems to have reserved the
Pacific slope of this continent till the Eastern portion had become settled, and Hiis institutions established and proven before it should become a great
part of our inheritance, and give to the people of the
crowded hives of the Orient more comfortable
homes.
San Francisco is, by her geographical position, by
her capital and enterprise, the Elect City of the
Pacific Coast, as New York is on the Atlantic; and
nothing but earthquakes can prevent her prosperous growth-at least, nothing above ground. The
entrance from the Pacific, through the Golden Gate
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