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.

CHAPTER VIII.
DENVER CITY.
Denver City is pleasantly located under the
shadow of the mountains, on the South Platte; is
substantially built of brick and wood; has good
hotels, banks, a United States Mint, some fine blocks
of buildings, and is the business centre of a large
section of country.
The town is settled down and is much more substantial now than when I visited it before. It has
lived through its first and fickle days, when drinking
and gambling reigned supreme, when "to be or not
to be" was the all-absorbing question with those
owning real estate and doing business. The prob.
lem is now solved. Denver is a fixed fact-has all
the elements in and around her to become a prosperous, wealthy city. Her central location, contiguous to the mountains and the plains in this section
of the State, gives her an agreeable climate the
whole year-gives her the outgo and the income of
all the mining districts. Denver' is also the principal market for all the agricultural productions of the
farming counties; also the central place for travel
to and from the mountain mining regions; also north
to the Railroad and south to New Mexico. With
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