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.

CHIIAPTER VI.
OMAHA AND NEBRASKA.
Omaha, the principal city in Nebraska, rises symmetrically from the west bank of the Missouri. You
see its majesty of location a(nd its already extended
improvement at one view. It being the starting
place and headquarters of the Pacific Road, has imparted to the city a wonderful development) and it has
now a population of 1 8,000.. It has also the river at
its command) navigable for two thousand miles in
either direction, with the principal workshops of
the Railroad and the lines from the other parts of
the country centering around it to make their transshipments. This place is destined to become one
of our great interior cities. A bridge will soon be
built across the river to Council Bluffs; then the
same cars can go back and forth from one end of the
continent to the other.
A considerable portion of Nebllaska presents g'ood
inlducements to the settler. For more than two
hundred rmiles it is washed by the tributaries of the
Platte arid Missouri. For some two hundred miles
wvest fi()m'the river the land is somewhat rollitig,
well watered and pIleity of wood. Tills portionl
of tlhe state is being settled rapidly; well cul
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