Hittell's hand-book of Pacific Coast travel . he engraving. The Comstock Lode is, in many respects, the most remarkablesilver-bearing vein in the World. The Veta Madre, or MotherVein, at Guanajuato, Mexico, and the great vein at Cerro Pasco,Peru, are similar to it in length, width and great production, but inthree centuries neither has yielded much more than did this lode intwenty years. Potosi, in Bolivia, has turned out considerably moresilver, but it has no one large vein equal to the Comstock, This ridge has a north-north-east, and a south-south-west course,p-jd its eastern side has a desc
Hittell's hand-book of Pacific Coast travel . he engraving. The Comstock Lode is, in many respects, the most remarkablesilver-bearing vein in the World. The Veta Madre, or MotherVein, at Guanajuato, Mexico, and the great vein at Cerro Pasco,Peru, are similar to it in length, width and great production, but inthree centuries neither has yielded much more than did this lode intwenty years. Potosi, in Bolivia, has turned out considerably moresilver, but it has no one large vein equal to the Comstock, This ridge has a north-north-east, and a south-south-west course,p-jd its eastern side has a descent of about 25° from the horizontal,while the lode dips at an angle of 45°. The first streets of thekown run along the mountain sides near the croppings, and the NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO. 35 OtOOO^OOii^MWM KQWQOOgd crc pi, ci- r&* M 5 1 pP o P *. 5*o ppp <IHWHO<io<IIO i—-aosoooxooioi © g o ffi p i- ^ p £ jO pp Q W s OCX o a w ^ O rfk ^©?^COOlCOOOrf^O©OOh-W-JOxOOWO© 1I o g £«£££££££© lT; f* p & CD p 1 o.
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