1873 Map / Plan SUTRO Nevada - Mining Camp - Ghost Town
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You are bidding on this wonderful historical piece. I HAVE MANY OTHER NEVADA BOOKPLATE PRINTS LISTED RIGHT NOW... PLEASE VISIT MY STORE..JUST CLICK -----> It is a 40 - 50 year old (my best guess) bookplate print from some sort of historical textbook. It measures 8 5/16" x 10 5/16". The image size is approximately 7 x 7 1/4" T is text on the reverse side but the paper is thick enough that it does not show through to the image side. I always ship in between cardboard in a clasp envelope. Shipping and Handling is $5.95 for the first piece and an additional $1.50 for each piece tafter. The images below may seem blurry on your monitor but I assure you they are as clear and crisp as a cold autumn morning This is the full image: This is a blown up portion of the image: Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro. That name will be forever linked to the history of California and Nevada mining operations. Sutro was a Prussian emigrant who came to America in 1850 at twenty years of age. While in San Francisco, he heard of the new gold rush to Washoe in Nevada. He went t and devised a new and more efficient method for recovery of gold and silver from quartz. Opening his own company, he built mills and roasting ovens and was earning $10,000 a month. But Sutro had a dream. It was to build a horizontal tunnel at a level that would intersect at a point
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