The Sutro Tunnel To The Comstock Lode In The State Of Nevada: Importance Of Its Construction, And Revenue To Be Derived Therefrom
(
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++
The Sutro Tunnel To The Comstock Lode In The State Of Nevada: Importance Of Its Construction, And Revenue To Be Derived Therefrom
Adolph Sutro
J. A. Gray & Green, printers, 1866
History; United States; State & Local; General; Comstock Lode (Nev.); History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / West; Sutro Tunnel (Nev.)
The Mineral Resources of the United States: And the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Ratio
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
Sutro Tunnel: Minority Report By Mr. Sargent Reviewed...
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++
Sutro Tunnel: Minority Report By Mr. Sargent Reviewed
Adolph Sutro
A. Sutro, 1873
Sutro Tunnel (Nev.)
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was a German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist who served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897.
Background
Adolph was born on April 29, 1830 to a Jewish family in Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia (today Germany). His father, a cloth manufacturer, died in 1847, and the Prussian revolution of the following year ruined the business. Consequently his mother with her seven sons and four daughters emigrated to America in 1850, settling in Baltimore.
Education
He was educated as an engineer, arrived in the United States at age 20.
Career
Fired by the gold discoveries in California, Adolph set out for the Pacific Coast via Panama, and arrived in San Francisco in November 1851. For the next nine years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in that city and in Stockton.
In 1860 he was drawn to Nevada by interest in the great bonanza strike. Impressed by the old-fashioned and inefficient mining methods then employed in the region of the Comstock lode, he conceived the idea of driving a tunnel ten feet high, twelve feet wide, and some three miles long, with lateral branches bringing the total length to over five miles, into Mount Davidson from Carson River to the Comstock lode, to provide ventilation, drainage, and an easy means of transporting men and materials to and from the mines.
He then formed the Sutro Tunnel Company; obtained, on April 4, 1865, a charter from the Nevada legislature; and persuaded mine owners to sign contracts to pay the company two dollars per ton for all ore mined after the opening of the tunnel for their use.
A coterie connected with the Bank of California in San Francisco gave him their support and helped to get through Congress (July 25, 1866) an act which granted Sutro and his associates the right of way through the public lands crossed by the tunnel, and several incidental franchises. Shortly thereafter Sutro's California supporters turned against him, their object being to get control of the tunnel and thereby reap the immense profits which were anticipated.
With indomitable perseverance he first sought, in vain, the aid of New York capitalists; then, in 1867, he went to Europe and visited a dozen countries and their mines, studying their tunnels, consulting their engineers, and obtaining indorsement for his own plans.
In 1868 he published The Mineral Resources of the United States and the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Rational System of Mining with Special Reference to the Comstock Lode and the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada. In Europe and from subscriptions by enthusiastic Nevada miners, he secured the initial funds with which to begin work in October 1869.
Nine years later, at a cost of about $6, 500, 000, including interest, the tunnel was completed to the Comstock lode, and its opening marked the beginning of a new era in western mining. The project proved immediately and immensely profitable. In 1879 Sutro sold his interest and returned to San Francisco, where he invested his tunnel profits in real estate, at one time owning one-twelfth of the acreage in San Francisco city and county. In the early eighties he bought the Cliff House and a thousand acres of land in the vicinity fronting on the ocean - Sutro Heights.
In 1892 he began construction of the enormous Sutro salt-water baths, costing nearly a million dollars, and forming, when completed, the finest bathing pavilion then in existence.
In 1894 he was elected mayor of San Francisco on the Populist ticket, and during his two-year term was constantly in strife with the board of supervisors and the railways operating within the city. Sutro died in 1898.
According to Hittell, "Sutro employed journalists to explain the advantage of the tunnel, civil engineers to examine the country and locate the line, and geologists to report on the mineral character of the Comstock lode and the country rock".
Interests
Sutro was deeply interested in the beginnings of science and of the art of printing, and ransacked Europe for incunabula of printing and block engraving.
Connections
He had a wife, Leah Harris, to whom he married in 1856. She died in 1893.