Virginia City Comstock Lode Vertical Map Nevada Mining Antique engraving 1870

This steel engraving print is out of a very rare book, Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Clarence King Geologist, Volume III, Mining Industry by James D. Hague. Government Printing Office 1870.

Plate I. "The three sections of Plate I are constructed on a horizontal scale of 3,520 feet to one inch, one-half the scale of Atlas-Plate II, and a vertical scale of 2,000 feet to one inch. Section 1 is through the summit of Mount Davidson and the Sugar Loaf Section 2 cuts through Gold Hill and crosses the trachyte ridge half-way between Mount Rose and Mount Emma."Section 3 is on the southern line of the map. All are on due east and

west planes.Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Page 18.

Size of sheet is overall length 9" X 11 1/2" wide, image 6" X 8 1/2".

Condition: Crisp and clean. Once framed this map will be an excellent example of a historic print that is 132 years old.

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