9 6 WEST-AMERICAN 



UTAH AND NEVADA. 



These two territories, embracing the greater part of the 

 Great Basin, have similar mountain ranges and products, 

 the latter composed of limited quantities of the Rocky 

 Mountain Yellow Pine, the Engelmann Spruce and 

 Douglas Spruce upon the slopes of the quite lofty Wasatch 

 Range, while westward, in Nevada, the low and numer- 

 ous short ranges bear on their tops small groves of the 

 Foxtail Pine, and the ranges nearest the California line 

 bear also the carious single-leaved Nevada Pinon, an- 

 ciently, and at present, affording nutritious pine nuts to 

 the resident aborigines. This pine and two or three 

 Junipers are much used for fencing, and also for fuel in 

 the forges of the silver mines on the Comstock, The 

 western edge of Nevada, embracing a portion of the 

 Sierra, partakes of the great Sierra forest, described 

 elsewhere. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



Cropping over the southern border of California are a 

 fevv trees of the cone-shaped little Parry Pine, abundant 

 southward in the San Rafael Mountains of the peninsula. 

 Centrally on the highest mountains of San Diego County, 

 are*found Yellow, Black, Big-cone, and a few trees of the 

 Sugar Pine, while on the eastern slopes a few of the 

 Nevada Nut Pines struggle for a foothold; and opposite, 

 on the wind-swept coast at Del Mar, 20 miles north of 

 San Diego, are found the few battling, crouching per- 

 haps expiring trees of the rare, long and 5-leaved Torrey 

 Pine. The widely-branching, bush-like California Juni- 

 per and the red-lrnbed Guadalupe Cypress, near the 

 coast, complete the conifers of this county. 



Across the western part of San Bernardino County, and 



