Sutro Tunnel Company collection, 1867-1892 , bulk 1867-1873.

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Sutro Tunnel Company collection, 1867-1892 , bulk 1867-1873.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093725

5 items: 1. Letter from Sutro to Louis Janin, March 21, 1867, transmitting amended articles of incorporation; 2. Letter (incomplete), (1867?), re use of proxies at a meeting of trustees; 3. Statement of progress at header and shafts, October 19, 1869 to 1876; 4. Mortgage (copy), executed by Sutro Tunnel Company, October 13, 1873; 5. Letter to Sutro from Isaac Trumbo, August 25, 1892, complaining about an employee at Sutro Heights, August 25, 1892.

5 items (1 portfolio).

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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 ...

Trumbo, Isaac,

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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...

Janin, Louis, 1837-1914

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Louis Janin (1837-1914) was a mining engineer educated at Yale and then at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He began his career in the Western United States, making his first mark on the profession on the Comstock Lode in Nevada in the early 1860s, and later obtained experience in mining fields all over the Far West. He acquired a growing list of clients including investors in Mexican properties and, in 1873, the Japanese government. His three sons, Louis, Eugene, and Charles, also became mining eng...