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.
An intelligent miner told me that nearly all this
park was rich in gold-would pay from three to four
dollars per day to wash it over. But I hope it will]]
iiot be done, at least till after every body has visited these mountains and parks, for the business
leaves great waste in its track.
"The San Louis Park" lies along and around the
Arkansas and its tributaries in Southern Colorado
and Northern New Mexico, and is the largest and,
perhaps, the most varied of the series of great parks.
It centers about a grand lake, and is rich alike in
agriculture and mineral promise.
"The Indians have robbed us of our promised
peep into its lines, and we know it only by its kinship
to those we have visited, and the enthusiastic description of those to whom it is familiar." The
South Park, however, is a favorite place for very
many Coloradians, and others, perhaps, on account
of more easy access, and its attraction more generally known. The salt works here, from which the
country is supplied with that necessary article for
domestic use, and for mining, is largely manufactured; also the hot springs, boiling up from
the ground, very strongly impregnated with soda.
O[)e has a basin three feet in diameter, rising from
the midst of a seeming great rock, like the Hiigh
Rock Spring, Saratoga, through which a large body
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