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(45) LECTURE ON MINES AND MINING. Delivered by Adolph Sutro, at Piper's Opera House, Virginia City, and in all the principal towns and mining camps in the state of Nevada. Virginia City, 4 pp. 18 × 24 inches, caption title; text in 8 columns. The Daily Independent Supplement, Virginia City, American Imprints Inventory, Nevada 177

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There is also another copy cut apart and pasted to separate sheets for use when showing the slides.

This lecture was a history of mining in the Comstock and of the Sutro Tunnel, but it was also a political effort to prevent William Sharon of the Bank of California from being elected Nevada State Senator, but despite Sutro's efforts Sharon was elected, although later the Bank of California lost its power.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
October 31, 1874.
1874.
Call number
mssNevadar
Provenance
Purchased from H. A. Levinson, February 27, 1963.
Purchased from Yale Brown, May 16, 1963.
Associated people
Bliss, Duane L. (1831-1894.)
Fair, James Graham, (1825-1910.)
Mills, Darius O. (1826-1875.)
Ralston, William Chapman, (1821-1885.)
Sharon, William,
Yerington, Henry M.
Associated organizations
Carson and Colorado Railroad.
Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company.
Lake Tahoe Railroad and Transportation Company.
Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
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