1870 Atlas on Mining Industry: The Comstock Lode

A full-color facsimile of the Atlas Accompanying Volume III on Mining Industry of the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Clarence King, Geologist in Charge, engraved and printed by Julius Bien of New York in 1870. This reprint reproduces the complete atlas — the covers, the title page with its printed table of plates, and all fourteen plates — in the landscape format of the original.

The heart of the atlas is the celebrated suite of Comstock Lode plates, compiled and drawn by R. H. Stretch from the mine surveys of I. E. James and R. H. Stretch (1863–1869), Marlette and Hunt, and T. D. Parkinson: horizontal maps of the Gold Hill, Virginia, and North Virginia mine workings, longitudinal elevations of the Gold Hill and Virginia mines, and five plates of cross sections and horizontal sections cutting through the most famous silver lode in American history at the height of the Washoe boom. Framing them are a general map locating the mining districts of the survey, King's own geological map of the Washoe Mining District (topography by J. T. Gardner), S. F. Emmons's geological map of the Toyabe Mountains, and Arnold Hague's geological map of the White Pine Mining District — printed-color geology from the survey that made King the first Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. For anyone studying the Comstock, the early USGS, or the underground workings of Virginia City, this is the foundational record.

An essential reference for mining historians, geologists, and collectors of Nevada and Western Americana.

30 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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