Heading: (Sutro Tunnel)
Author: Sutro, Adolph
Title: The Mineral Resources of the United States, and the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Rational System of Mining, with Special Reference to the Comstock Lode and the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada.
Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher:John Murphy & Co.
Date Published: 1868
Description: xiv, [11]-232 pp. Inserted lithographic facsimile of holograph letter; lithographic frontispiece view of Virginia City; lithographic facsimile of Resolution of Nevada Senate; folding colored lithographic map of the area of the Comstock Lode; and folding tinted lithographic sectional view of the Sutro Tunnel & the Comstock Lode. (4to) 29.5x23 cm (11½x9¼"), original red cloth, covers gilt ruled with central gilt stamped image of pickaxe miner, all edges gilt. First Edition.Exhaustive compilation of all the material which Adolph Sutro could assemble to support and promote his efforts to gain Federal approval and funding for his extraordinary project of building a six-mile tunnel into the Comstock Lode in order to drain water, ventilate the mines, and provide transportation. The lithographed prefatory letter points out that a revived mining industry would help to pay off the mounting national debt. Paher 1925. Provenance: Emma Sutro, daughter of Adolph Sutro, with her signature on the verso of the plate of Virginia City (the frontispiece); later bookplate of Kenneth Johnson.

Moderate wear and soiling to cloth, joints cracked, front board shaken but intact; toning, outer leaves foxed; still very good.