Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook, 1882, March-November.

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Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook, 1882, March-November.

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Letterbook kept by C.C. Thomas, superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company, from March to November 1882. The letters describe company business and operating expenses, as well as repairs made on the Sutro Tunnel. Also includes a sketch showing the claim of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company.

1 bound volume, 282 pages.

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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 ...

Consolidated Virginia Mining Company

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The Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, on the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, was organized in 1867. After striking the "big bonanza" in 1873, the company produced over one hundred million dollars from 1873-1882 and dominated the Comstock from 1875 until its interests were sold to San Francisco stockbrokers in 1895. In the 1930s the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company was reactivated to mine and mill the remaining ore until 1942, when production continued sporadically thereafter. ...

Thomas, C. (Carlos)

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The Sutro Tunnel Company sold stocks to fund the construction of the Sutro Tunnel, which ran from Virginia City to Dayton, Nevada. The tunnel was designed to allow drainage away from mining operations in the Comstock Lode, and was first suggested by Adolph Sutro (1830-1898) in 1860. Construction began in 1869 and the main tunnel was completed in 1878, at which time Sutro sold his interests in the Sutro Tunnel Company and moved to San Francisco, where he later served as mayor. From th...

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...