Sutro Tunnel Company records, 1867-1885.

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Sutro Tunnel Company records, 1867-1885.

Company official correspondence, and other business records showing reports on ore assays, workers employed, and the progress of work on the Sutro Tunnel and draining water from the mines of Nevada's Comstock Lode.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7961011

Nevada State Historical Society

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Sutro Tunnel Company

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Sutro, Adolph Heinrich Joseph. From the description of Sutro Tunnel Company collection, 1867-1892 , bulk 1867-1873. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86093725 ...

McCalmont, Brothers, and Company

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Ames, Pelham W. (Pelham Warren), 1839-

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BIOGRAPHY Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a statesman, Federalist publicist, orator and Congressman. He was elected to Congress in 1789 and served until 1796. In 1805 he was offered the presidency of Harvard, but declined due to poor health and "advancing age" (47). His son Seth Ames married Margaret S. Bradford; their son Pelham Warren Ames served in the navy during the Civil War and was a lawyer. From the guide to the Ames Family Pa...

Specht, George J.

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Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898

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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro, originator of the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada and well-known figure in San Francisco, born of Jewish parents in 1830 at Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany, left school at sixteen, but continued his education by reading voraciously. From his father, a cloth manufacturer, Sutro learned factory management. After his father's death in 1847, with business ruined by the Prussian war, his mother, having to raise seven sons and four daughters, decided to emigrate to the Un...

Brush, C. W.

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Aron, Joseph, 1836-1905

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