Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Reps. in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel, with the Arguments1872 - 4 páginas |
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Página 959 - An act granting to A. Sutro the right of way and other privileges to aid in the construction of a draining and exploring tunnel to the Comstock lode, in the State of Nevada," approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Página 941 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Página 4 - July 25, 18u(J, with special reference to the importance, feasibility, cost, and time required to construct the same; the value of the bullion extracted from the mines on the Comstock lode ; their present and probable future production; also, the geological and practical value of said tunnel as an exploring work, and its general bearing upon our mining and other national interests in ascertaining the practicability of deep mining.
Página 844 - And be it further enacted, That all persons, companies, or corporations, owning claims or mines on said Comstock lode, or any other lode drained, benefited, or developed by said tunnel, shall hold their claims subject to the condition, (which shall be expressed in any grant they may hereafter obtain from the United States,) that they shall contribute and pay to the owners of said tunnel the same rate...
Página 6 - Comstock, all of which have been, and at some points continue to be, worked for the precious metals; also, in a geological point of view, in determining the depth at which precious ores will be found in our country in what may be considered as true fissure-veins. These claims on the part of the advocates of the tunnel will be considered in the order in which they have been stated, with the exception of the last, which can be more properly treated under the head of u the practical value of said tunnel...
Página 939 - Blenkinsop's steam-engine. Such would have been a legitimate motive for overstepping the income of a nation, and the completion of so great and useful a work would have afforded rational ground for public triumph in general jubilee.
Página 2 - December 1, 1871. GENERAL : I have the honor to forward herewith the report of the Sutro Tunnel commission, and in separate packages, the following: Package containing maps, plans, and drawings, marked from 1 to 11, inclusive. Package containing estimate, circular letter, reports of superintendents of mining companies, &c., marked from A to L, inclusive.
Página 127 - During the time when said party of the second part shall use said tunnel or drift; as means of transportation, as hereinbefore contracted for, the party of the second part will pay to the parties of the first part, for each ton of ore, rock, earth, or debris removed from the point hereinbefore designated to or beyond the...
Página 939 - I thought of the inconceivable millions of money which have been spent about Malta, four or five of which might have been the means of extending double lines of iron railway from London to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Holyhead, Milford, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Dover, and Portsmouth.