Archive Record

Metadata

Catalog Number

MSNC00003

Filing Title

Sutro Tunnel Company records

Collection

Sutro Tunnel Company records

Dates of Creation

1867-1888

Extent

5 boxes

Creator

Sutro Tunnel Company

Scope & Content

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between the superintendent's office at Sutro, Nevada, and officials at the company headquarters in San Francisco, California. There is also some incoming general correspondence, as well as business records showing reports on ore assays, workers employed, and the progress of work on the Sutro Tunnel and draining water from the mines of Nevada's Comstock Lode. Includes correspondence between the firm's New York office and George B. Thatcher, their attorney in Reno, Nevada.

Correspondents include Adolph Sutro; company secretary Pelham W. Ames; company presidents C. W. Brush and Joseph Aron; superintendents Charles C. Thomas, F. A. Benjamin, and H. L. Foreman; engineer George J. Specht; H. S. Safford; R. S. Raw; Frank S. Young; Henry H. Sheldon; the London banking firm of McCalmont, Brothers and Company; Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (New York); and the Washington, D.C. law firm of Samuel Shellabarger and Jeremiah M. Wilson.

Subjects: Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898 -- Correspondence.
Ames, Pelham W. (Pelham Warren), b. 1839 --
Correspondence.
Brush, C. W. -- Correspondence.
Specht, George J. -- Correspondence.
Aron, Joseph, 1836-1905 -- Correspondence.
McCalmont, Brothers, and Company.
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Comstock
Lode.
Mining corporations -- Nevada -- Comstock Lode.
Mine drainage -- Nevada -- Comstock Lode.
Sutro Tunnel (Nev.)
Comstock Lode Mining District (Nev.)
Business records -- Nevada -- Reno.

Plus map collection - Map no. 001-022

Map 001 = Topographical map showing locations of the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode - from Charles E. Hoffman map - not dated - 43x109 cm. (see also Map 004)

Map 002 = Map of the town of Sutro and other properties of the Sutro Tunnel Company - 1880s - 61x48 cm - color added. (3 dups and a mylar)

Map 003 = Profile of the Sutro Tunnel route from its entrance to the Comstock Lode - R. G. Carlyle - 1870s - 36x125 cm.

Map 004 = Topographical Map showing locations of the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode - from Charles E. Hoffman map 1866 - 76x86 cm. (see also Map 001)

Map 005 = Town of Sutro and Sutro Tunnel - 51x79 cm vellum, topography on one side and tunnel and surface features on the other - 1860s or 1870s.

Map 006 = apparently dups of Map 006 - three copies and a partial fourth - all damaged, hence left rolled in box storage.

Map 007 = apparently a dup of Map 001 or Map 004, severely damaged, hence left rolled in box storage.

Map 008 = Map of Sutro Tunnel Grant - on brittle paper and torn in three places, hence left rolled in box storage.

Map 009 = Plat of Sutro Tunnel and its branches - 61x71 cm pencil and ink drawing - in two pieces and otherwise damaged - left rolled in box storage.

Map 010 = Map of the town of Sutro and other property of the Sutro Tunnel Company - torn and otherwise damaged - left rolled in box storage. (see also Map 003)

Map 011 = Map of town of Sutro - a photostatic copy of Hoffman's printed 1866 map - 23x28 cm.

Map 012 = Topographic Map of the Sutro Tunnel & the Comstock Lode and a Profile of the Sutro Tunnel & Longitudinal Section of the Comstock Lode showing their workings and their relative depths to the Sutro Tunnel - June 1873 - 58x56 cm colored print.

Map 013 = Same map as Map 012 except does not have the Profile of the Sutro Tunnel nor the Longitudinal Section of the Comstock Lode.

Map 014 = Single sheet copy of township and range maps (T16N-R21E, T16N-R22E, T17N-R21E, T17N-R22E) showing Comstock Lode area and line of the Sutro Tunnel. Certified by U.S. Surveyor General for Nevada, Edwin S. Davis, March 1, 1877. (Accompanies volume titled, "Sutro Tunnel Company. Abstract of Title. 1877", in Sutro Tunnel Company Records.)

Language of Material

English

Associated Material

Sutro Tunnel Company Records, NC07. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.