Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-26
sTOCK TRANSACTIONS.
%[REPoRrED DAILY BY H. H. FLAGa, BANKER.
SAX Francisco, Oct. 26-lP. Y.
THE sUTRO TUNNEL.

The officers Of the Carson Land Office
have sent US the following copy Of the
order from the Gensral Land Office m
corning the Sutro Tunnel:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, }
GENERAL LAND OFPIo1,
August lst, 1885,
Register and Receiver, Carson City, Ne
vada-GBNrLBMHN:- - enclose herewith q
preliminary survey Of . drainage and ex-
ploring tunnel, to the Comstock Lode,
authorized to be constructed by A. susro,
Is per Act Of Congress, approved July rs,
1866, granting to said Sutro, for the pur-
pose aforesaid, the right Of way to run,
construct and excavate, 4 mining, drain
ing and exploring tunnel; also to sink
mining, working or sir-shafts along the
line or course of said tunnel, and connect
ing the same at any points which may
hereafter be selected BY the grantee herein,
his heirs and assigns.
The Act aforesaid also grants to said
Sutro, his heirs and assigns, the right
to purchase at 81 rs per acre o sufi-
cisnt amount Of public lands, near
the mouth Of the said tunnel, for
the use Of the same, not exceeding two
sections, which shall not be mineral land,
or in the bona fde possession Of other per-
IONS who claim under any law Of Con-
gress, a. the time Of the passage Of the Act
Aforesaid. Said Act further grants the
right to purchase at S. per acre such min.
eral veins or lodeS within two thousand
feet on each side of said tunnel as shall be
cut, discovered or developed by running
and constructing the same through it, On.
tire extent, subject to the provisions Of the
Act and to such legislation a. Congress
may hereafter provide.
The Comstock lode, and such other
lodcs aS may be in the possession Of other
persons at the time Of the passage Of the
Act. are excepted from the grant.
You will see from the enclosed diagram
that said tunnel runs through the public
lands from o line dividing sections l and
2, in Township l6, north of range E, to
section %, in Township II, north Of range
20 Z.
Lands indicated by yellow shading, at
the mouth Of the tunnel. on the accom-
panying map, are the particular tracts
selected by said Sutro, under the said Act,
and claimed by him to be necessary for
the use Of the same; and those shaded
blue are the particular tracts which said
Sutro claims the RICH. to purchase along
the line Of said tunnel.
The tracts above designated ~ aforesaid
will be Withheld from market until it shall
be ascertained which, or any, Of said tracts
fall within any one Of the exceptions
named in said Act, and until said Sutro
shall have had a reasonable time to com
ply on his part with the conditions Of the
law, and to show by satisfactory proof, be-
fore purchase, as to the actual amount Of
land needed at the mouth Of said tunnel
for the use of the same, not to exceed two
sections.
You will. therefore. upon the receipt o.
these instructions, withdraw from sale
location, pre-emption or homestead claim
the lands along the line, and at the mouth
Of said tunnel, indicated BY said coloring
Very respectfully. your ob't ssrv't,
(Signed) J. N. EDxuNDs,
Commiuioner.
Approved, August l, 1866.
(Signed) JAMES HARLAN,
Secretary Of the Interior.