New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-19
THE GREAT NEVADA TUNNEL.

The struggles of Mr.. Adolph Sutro during
the last four or five years to obtain the means
necessary for the cutting of the great Sutro
tunnel in Nevada, have shown him to be a
man of extraordinary energy and perseverance.
He has personally urged his scheme in all the
bourses of the world, from New York, London,
and Paris, to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Frank
fort he has labOred with the great money
kings and money lenders of Europe; he has
appealed to the American Congress with the
greatest pertinacity, and has reasoned
with Senators and members by day
and night; he has impOrtuned the editors
of all the leading journals of the coun-
try he has fought the Bank of California, the
great financial power of the Pacific coast; he
has printed books and pamphlets, maps and
engravings he has held correspondence or per-
sonal interviews with nearly all the leading
scientific men and mining engineers now liy-
ing; and he has sacrificed all the funds he him
self possessed in his determined efforts 10 Sc
cure the capital required for the construction
of the tunnel. When, after his unwearied Ia
bors with Congress at its last session, he failed
to obtain an appropriation, though the House
Committee on Mines and Mining recommended
q subsidy of S5,O00,OOO, it seemed as though no
would at last be compelled to give up the
struggle. He had apparently tried and ex-
hausted every means that promised success
and, in resigning all hope of it, he would at
least have the consciousness that he had only
failed after displaying an amount of ingenuity
and pertinacity sufficient to secure success for
almost any possible project.
Dat Cant Sutro has neither given hia
prospects nor his labors. On the contrary, no
has Just announced his purpose of making
another attempt, which, we must say, gives
better promise than any OF those that have
preceded it. The speech he has recently de-
lived on the subject in Nevada sets forth his
new programme in DETAIL and while doing so,
he takes occasion to recount his past struggles,
trials, plans, hopes, and misfortunes, in America
and Europe; and this he does in way that
makes it as interesting as any romance of per-
sonal adventure.
The new plan of Capt. Sutro is to induce
the Nevada miners themselves to commence
operations upon the tunnel on their own ac-
count. He desires, in fact, to carry on the
work upon the cooperative principle-offering
opportunities by which some of the men may
| give their hDOr, WnHe oIhcIs may in'ost ouCh
sums as they possess, from s. upward, receiv'
| ing therefor stock in the meantime, and subse-
quently such returns as may be furnished by
the silver which he feels assured will
soon be reached. The plan he has
drawn up appears entirely feasible
and he has presented it in such a way that We
are not surprised at the encouragement he has
received. The privileges, rights, and grants OF
land he has already obtained from Congress
give an excellent basis Of security on which to
attempt the cooperative plan; and the assur-
ance of immense returns to all interested par
ties, in the event of success, furnish an element
of attraction peculiarly tempting to the Ameri'
can. and, above all Others, to the American
miner .. ..-.I .r. IHH #
The plan that Mr. Sutro has finally deter
mined to try has boen adopted not only because