SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE: Boom Days in Virginia City

by Lyman, George D

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NY:: Scribner,, 1941. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; spine & cover gilt worn away; otherwise quite good.. 41pp. Notes + index. With pictorial endpapers, b&w frontispiece photo + 14 b&w photos. 1941 edn. of 1934 first issue. ||| Northwest Nevada in 1850s saw rich prospectors, dirt-poor miners, fallen angels, Mark Twain's comments, & Henry P. Comstock's land he said he unloaded for $10,000+ to `newcomers who didn't know better.' Narrative ends in 1865; $38,400,000-worth had been mined; then pumps could no longer keep mine shafts free of water. ||| In 1869, mining engineer Adolph Sutro's `crazy idea' of a 5-mile-long drainage tunnel was begun with mine-owners' & foreign investors' money. Completed in 1878, mining resumed, raising output total to $340,000,000 by 1890. ||| Located at Library of Congress, Harvard.