TEST 33
The Official Sutro Tunnel Plat Map,
Virginia City, Nevada
The Sutro Tunnel main tunnel was 3.88 miles long and the side tunnels were 2.42 miles long.
The total tunnels of the Sutro Tunnel System totaled 6.30 miles.
The Sutro Tunnel ran from the Comstock Lode at Virgina City, downhill to the town of Sutro.
There Adolph Sutro laid out farm plots in the arid land and watered them with water drained from the Comstock Lode mines.
The fresh produce was sold in Virginia City.
Talk about recycling!
For more about Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel in Virginia City, Nevada, Click Here.
More information can be found in the following issue of Western States Jewish History:
- Sutro, Adolph, Pioneer Jews of San Francisco, Part Two, M-Z, Norton Stern, 41/2
- Plat of the Sutro Tunnel and its Branches
