Map of Gold Hill Front Lodes on the Comstock Range N.T.

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• ARTIST: C. Wescoatt

• PUBLISHER: Printed by Oakley & Tompston Lith. Boston.

• MEDIUM: Stone engraving,

  DATE: c.1864.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 7/8 x 22 1/16" (32.6 x 55.7 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: "Surveyed July 1864. By N. Wescoatt, C.E. Located Sept. & Oct. 1859. Made to accompany Report of Dr. J. A. Veatch." The Comstock Lode, discovered in 1859 in western Nevada, was a gold and silver lode. It yielded half the silver output of the United States until the mid 1880's. As a result, the town of Virginia City grew at the site. It is now a ghost town.

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• CONDITION: Good condition. Black & white.

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