A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines, Nevada and the Great Basin Region: Lake Tahoe and the High Sierras ... The Mineral and Agricultural Resources of "Silverland" ..."The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to the silver mines of the Comstock as the visiting tourist is likely to require." -- introductory. |
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A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines, Nevada and the Great Basin ... Dan De Quille No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 45 - ... Bob" Patterson, proprietor of the International Saloon and faro rooms ; and WDC Gibson (William De Witt Clinton Gibson, in full, familiarly known as "Bill"), the proprietor of a similar establishment at Gold Hill. Manhood and brains were the only tests on the Comstock. ""Dan DeQuille wrote in 1889 : "Men who were graduated on the Comstock are now to be found in all parts of the world. They early went to Idaho, Montana. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico. Arizona, Alaska, and British Columbia. Old Comstock...
Page 129 - The north-west bar is sixteen miles long, and from a mile to a mile and a half wide, on the whole of which the sea breaks in bad weather.
Page 138 - ... be borne away into the ocean. The whole of the south end is covered with timber, which has either been drifted thither by the current or torn from wrecks, and driven on shore by the violence of the sea. At either extremity there is an extensive and dangerous bar.
Page 101 - Quille,159 in describing the region wrote: "About the town are an immense number of small veins of gold-bearing quartz that pay from the surface down. Nearly every head of a family in the town has his own mine, and when he wants money he shoulders his pick, goes out to his mine, and digs it, as a farmer in the East digs a 'mess
Page 133 - Lake is about 7,741 feet, nearly a mile and a half, above the level of the sea.
Page 36 - Comstock, as he gave his name—has by many persons been credited with the discovery of the Comstock, but it is an honor to which he was not entitled. The credit of discovering silver in Nevada belongs to Peter O'Riley and Patrick McLaughlin.
Page 104 - Believing Mr. Sutro to have got hold of the mantle of some ancient financial prophet, many persons were induced to flee the " wrath to come" (bats, owls and coyotes), and settle down at the mouth of the tunnel.
Page 30 - On the ranges are found several valuable native grasses, some of which are cut for hay. Those most valuable for hay are the blue-joint, red-top, one variety of bunch-grass, and several varieties of clover. All these grasses grow in the moist lands of the valleys and natural meadows, but some varieties of bunch-grass flourish on the hills and elevated benches.
Page 105 - Once the men who had beenengaged in driving the tunnel went away, there was nothing more to make or keep up a town than at any other point along the edge of the valley; for the big reduction works promised by Mr. Sutro were never built.
Page 37 - When visitors came it was always my mine and my everything. Thus people came to talk of Comstock's mine and Comstock's vein...