Author: United States. Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives
Author: United States. Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee of Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives of the United States, in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel, Together with the Arguments and Report of the Committee Recommending a Loan by
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347833148
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Reps. in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel, with the Arguments
Author: United States. Commission upon the Sutro Tunnel (1872)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives
Author: United States. Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives ... in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives
Author: United States. Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461761382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS &
Author: United States Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher:
ISBN: 9781361631461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
The Bonanza King
Author: Gregory CrouchPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.
Adolph Sutro
Author: William R. HuberPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476680396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges. Emigrating from Prussia to the U.S. at age 20, the California gold rush lured him west. At the Comstock Lode in Nevada, he conceived an idea for a tunnel to drain the hot water that made the mines perilous and inefficient. But he would have to overcome both physical obstacles and powerful opposition by the Bank of California to realize his vision. Back in San Francisco, Sutro bought one twelfth of the city, including the famous Cliff House perched over the Pacific Ocean. When it burned to cinders on Christmas Day, 1894, he built a massive, eight-story Victorian replacement. He used his expertise in tunneling and water solutions to create the world's largest enclosed swimming structure, the Sutro Baths--six glass-covered heated saltwater pools with capacity of 1,000 swimmers. Other challenges followed but Sutro was not invincible. After a two-year term as mayor of San Francisco, he succumbed to debilitating strokes which left him senile. His death in 1898 started disputes among his heirs--six children by his wife and two by his mistress--that lasted more than a decade.
Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives of the United States, in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel
Author: U. S. Sutro Tunnel CommissionPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364867471
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives of the United States, in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel: Together With the Arguments and Report of the Committee, Recommending a Loan by the Government in Aid of the Construction of Said Work Total time required to sink shafts and run drifts. Additional time required to enlarge tunnel to full size 'total time required to complete main tunnel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.