Parkinson, T. D.
Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe Mining Claims in Storey & Lyon Counties, Nevada
Compiled from official surveys and other reliable data.
San Francisco: G. T. Brown & Co., Lith., 1875. Second edition.
A lithographed map of the Comstock Lode measuring 31 by 26 inches, with individual mining claims outlined in hand color.
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While the map was issued in a folding case as a pocket map, this copy was mounted on canvas and affixed to rollers (no longer present) at an early date. The mapseller's label was clearly affixed after mounting, as it passes over a fold, and the subject of the map is noted on the back of the canvas in what appears to be a late 19th century hand.
The Comstock Lode, discovered in the late 1850s in the area that is now Virginia City, Nevada, produced prodigious quantities of silver and gold. While located in the dry, desert area of the Eastern Sierras, vast reservoirs of underground water regularly flooded the mines. Adolf Sutro conceived a long drainage tunnel that would run nearly 2,000 feet below the surface. The 16-foot tunnel was completed a few years after this map was published, about the time the Lode reached peak production. Across the top of the map is an inset titled "Longitudinal Section of the Comstock Lode," which depicts the depths of claims and the route of the Sutro Tunnel.
Scarce. OCLC records two copies of this edition (Yale, Huntington Library) and one dated a year earlier (Stanford).
The map is tanned overall, but is generally very good with a small bit of loss at one of the old folds. A previous owner has penned a presentation to a museum in the upper left margin (outside the map border) and there is a subsequent discreet withdrawn stamp nearby.
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