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The Sutro Tunnel Company - A Nineteenth Century Engineering Marvel

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The Sutro Tunnel Company - A Nineteenth Century Engineering Marvel
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1880, California. Stock certificate for ten shares. GreenBlack. Engraved vignette at top center of a seated Indian warrior overlooking mining operations, boats and trains; smaller vignette of miners at work below. Adolph Sutro (1830 - 1898), a mining Engineer and eventually mayor of San Francisco formed the Sutro Tunnel Company to construct a tunnel which would provide ventilation, drainage and an easy means of transporting men and materials to and from the mines in the region of the Comstock Lode. The Sutro Tunnel was one of the 19th century&#39s engineering marvels. Uncancelled and Extremely Fine.