Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on

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(SUTRO TUNNEL). 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. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872. 1st ed. 450pp. 12 large folding plates. Orig. blindstamped gilt pictorial cloth, A.e.g. A fine copy. Frederic Remington's copy with his bookplate. Laid in is subscription notice for shares in the Sutro Railroad Company at $10 per share. Also eight small broadsides of C. P. Huntington's Colton Letters, (Nos. 18, 138, 160, 177, 188, 389, 425, and 555/110) and a small broadside. "A Young Lady on Bribery" from Huntington to Mayor Sutro. The Sutro Tunnel is a drainage tunnel connected to the Comstock Lode in northern Nevada. It begins at Virginia City and empties near Dayton, Nevada. By 1865, Sutro's idea had gained the approval of state and federal legislation. The mining interests of the Comstock also initially supported the tunnel project, but later strongly opposed the idea. They feared that an alternate access point to the Comstock minerals would threaten their monopoly on the mining and milling of gold and silver in the Comstock.

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