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	Comstock Lode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comstock Lode is the richest known U.S. deposit of silver ore discovered under what is now Virginia City, Nevada on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, a peak in the Virginia range.
		After the discovery was made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to the area and mining camps in the vicinity, which became thriving centers of fabulous wealth.
		It is notable not just for the immense fortunes it generated and the large role those fortunes had in the growth of Nevada and San Francisco, but also for the advances in mining technology that it spurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comstock_Lode (2407 words)

	AllRefer.com - Comstock Lode (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Comstock Lode, richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range.
		Henry T. Comstock, known as Old Pancake, was a sheepherder and prospector who took possession of the brothers' cabin and tried to find their old sites.
		Camps and trading posts in the area became important supply centers, and Virginia City, a mining camp on the mountain, was for several decades the "capital" of the lode and a center of fabulous luxury.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ComstockLd.html (393 words)

	Rocks & Minerals: History of the Comstock Lode Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With this, Penrod insisted that they had located a quartz lode and that it should be claimed as such, with each man taking 300 feet along the vein with an added 300 feet for the discovery, rather than the smaller claims allowed a placer.
		In the long and diverse history of mining on the Comstock, the engineering problems of handling the flood of hot water and the instability of the surrounding ground should have overpowered the progress of deep mining.
		The main ore mass of the bonanzas was composed of quartz, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, native silver and gold, acanthite, polybasite, stephanite, calcite, and gypsum.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GDX/is_6_74/ai_58243238 (1611 words)

	Images of the Comstock Miners' Unions
		The miners' unions on the Comstock Lode are unworthy champions of the labor cause, for they substitute might for right, and place personal interest in the room of justice.
		Grant Smith, who spent much of his youth on the Comstock and later worked for a number of the area's mining corporations as their attorney in San Francisco, devoted the majority of his study to the mining entrepreneurs and companies that developed the mining district's mineral resources and manipulated the stock market.
		Although Lingenfelter was not aware of Governor Nye's call for troops to the Comstock in 1864, a significant oversight, he did present the historical community with a new image of Comstock labor and its fundamental role in the unfolding of the heritage of conflict in western mining.
	www.nevadalabor.com /rocha.html (5317 words)

	Hardly a High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It began in 1859 on the Comstock Lode, the biggest and grandest silver strike in the nation.
		Comstock, described as a very dirty, illiterate, ragged, mangy, and a lice-ridden miner (historians didn’t think much of him), was also a crook.
		After losing the big one back in the Comstock Lode, not realizing another dream of riches at Island Mountain, and again failing in Tennessee Gulch, it may be that Manny finally came to terms that none of his mining ventures were anywhere near successful.
	www.rabbitbrush.com /hickson/MannyPenrod.html (963 words)

	USS COMSTOCK- SHIP'S INFO AND STATS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Comstock Lode, founded in 1859, has become indelible in the history of our American West; it produced more than $500,000,000 in gold and silver.
		The arrowhead denotes the thrust of the amphibious assault.
		The mine entrance is another reference to the Comstock Lode, and the color red exemplifies courage.
	www.comstock.navy.mil /ship.htm (834 words)

	Comstock Lode on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		COMSTOCK LODE [Comstock Lode] richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range.
		History of the Comstock Lode Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada.
		Manly gambles: the politics of risk on the Comstock lode, 1860-1880.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/ComstockL1d.asp (582 words)

	The Comstock Lode
		The Comstock's richest mine, the Ophir, lay along a claim nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and was quoted at $4,000 per foot.
		After only weeks on the Comstock sites, he developed a new system of "square set" timbering, a deep-mining support technique so effective it opened the Comstock to far greater penetration and was instantly applied across the West and worldwide.
		At the height of the Civil War, the Comstock Lode exercised a far-ranging political and economic influence.
	www.calliope.org /gold/gold3.html (2234 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Comstock Lode
		Comstock Lode, metal-yielding vein rich in gold and silver, located in Storey County, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the...
		The Comstock Lode brought great wealth to Nevada.
		During the mining boom, which ended in 1881, gold and silver worth an estimated $300 million were...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Comstock_Lode.html (116 words)

	GovMint.com - The Carson City Mint
		The rancher later had a sample analyzed and it was discovered that the substance that miners had been throwing away to get the gold was, in fact, composed of silver and gold and was estimated to be worth nearly $5,000 a ton.
		Christened the Comstock Lode, the rich veins of silver and gold in Comstock’s mine became the greatest source of silver ever discovered in the United States.
		By 1862, not only were vast amounts of silver being extracted from the Comstock Lode, but the nation was locked in the Civil War.
	www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/carsoncity.aspx (987 words)

	AllRefer.com - Comstock Lode, Nevada (NV) (Storey County) - (mining zone) - Facts and Information
		Comstock Lode, richest known U.S. silver deposit, Storey co., W Nevada, at Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range.
		It is said to have been discovered in 1857 by Ethan Allen Grosh and Hosea Ballou Grosh, sons of a Pa. minister and veterans of the Calif. gold fields who died under tragic circumstances before their claims were recorded.
		Camps and trading posts in the area became important supply centers, and Virginia City, a mining camp on the mt., was for several decades the “capital” of the lode and a center of fabulous luxury.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/C/C09805-comstock-lode.html (392 words)

	USS Comstock (LSD 45)
		USS COMSTOCK is the second ship to be named after the Comstock Lode, an early American pioneer mining site near Virginia City, Nevada.
		The Comstock Lode, founded in 1859, has become indelible in the history of the American West; it produced more than $500,000,000 in gold and silver.
		Since her commissioning in early 1990, COMSTOCK has completed three extended deployments to the Western Pacific and Middle East Forces, and has completed one deployment to the Southern Pacific conducting counter narcotic operations.
	navysite.de /ships/lsd45.htm (565 words)

	Journal of Social History: Manly gambles: the politics of risk on the Comstock lode, 1860-1880 - Virginia City, Nevada
		The experience of risk and the cost of failure depended a great deal on what was at stake in the gamble--a day's wages, a person's reputation, the well-being of one's family, a percentage of company profits, an arm, or a life itself.
		While all miners on the Comstock may have appeared equally reckless to Eliot Lord, the experience and significance of their underground gambles differed significantly for single and married miners, and for Chinese and Irish miners.
		Fire, poisonous gas, explosions, cave-ins, and other hazards killed or injured more than 900 miners between 1863 and 1880, giving the Comstock Lode one of the worst industrial accident rates in the world during these decades.(20) The physical risks of placer mining--frostbite, starvation, bandits' guns--paled in comparison to the dangers of deep-lode mining.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_n4_v26/ai_14125251 (2159 words)

	The City Rocks! The Comstock Lode
		Virginia City's population exploded to 25,000 as the bonanza was dug out of the lode.
		Click here to see a map of the lode and the claims as they were in 1880.
		orking the Comstock Lode was dangerous and exhausting.
	homepage.mac.com /ebandpck/cityrocks/comstock.html (470 words)

	Comstock Lode
		Comstock Lode is a 3-piece (sometimes 4-5 piece) musical group.
		The Comstock Lode was the worlds richest known silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range.
		Henry T.P. Comstock later working for Anaconda Copper, was shot and killed September 27, 1870 in Bozeman, MT outside a local bar.
	home.bresnan.net /~m.comstock/band2.html (739 words)

	Nevada Online Encyclopedia: Philipp Deidesheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eventually, he addressed one of the Comstock’s most critical needs.
		By 1860, miners found the Comstock Lode was dozens of feet wide in some places making it impossible for timbers to support caverns cleared of gold and silver ore. Seeking a solution, Ophir Mine director W. Babcock summoned Deidesheimer to Virginia City.
		Grant H. Smith, The History of the Comstock lode: 1850-1920 (Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and the University of Nevada, 1943)
	www.nevadahumanities.org /encyclopedia/pdeidesheimer.htm (291 words)

	GovMint.com - 1880s Comstock Lode Silver Dollar Collection
		Discovered in 1859, the Comstock Lode established states, helped finance the Civil War and created fortunes for a lucky few.
		During its heyday, the Comstock Lode was the source of silver for four different branch mints producing the famous coin — Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco and Carson City.
		The Comstock Lode provided silver for decades and now you can get three years of Morgan Silver Dollars struck during the heyday of the Comstock Lode 1885, 1886 and 1887 Morgan Silver Dollars struck at the “Mother Mint” in Philadelphia.
	www.govmint.com /countrylistings/northamerica/usa/comstocklode.aspx (164 words)

	Amazon.com: Comstock Lode: Books: Louis L'Amour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Comstock Lode was the first of his novels that I read, well over ten years ago, and found it to be an enjoyable treat.
		Though the particular details of the plot have long since left me, during a recent visit to Virginia City, years after having read Comstock Lode, I was able to explain to my companions why the cemetery held the remains of so many from Cornwall, England.
		I thought that Comstock was darn good, and certainly one of the best of his books set in California.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553275615?v=glance (1598 words)

	Comstock Notable Kin
		Henry Comstock - Namesake for the Comstock Lode
		In 1862 they invested heavily in mining stocks of the Comstock lode which proved exceedingly profitable, and they joined J.
		Walker, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, forming what became known as the Bonanza firm, in purchasing all the mines and claims in the Comstock lode for a sum reported to have Been $75,000.
	www.members.tripod.com /~ntgen/bw/comst_ntble.html (924 words)

	Department of Cultural Affairs - This Was Nevada: Comstock Lode Featured in New Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A number of them which focused on the Comstock Lode have been compiled into a new book entitled This Was Nevada: Vol.
		Virginia City's firemen are the subject of several essays, as are the great fires which swept the lode from time to time, in particular the Yellow Jacket Fire of 1869 and the great fire of Oct. 26, 1875, which destroyed much of Virginia City.
		The miners of the Comstock are also covered in some detail, including underground life, the saga of the rats who shared the mines, ailments of the hard rock miners, mining folklore and superstition, and the saga of Henry T. Comstock.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/dca/thiswas/thiswas37.htm (600 words)

	Nevada Online Encyclopedia:Spanish-speaking settlers: Comstock era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
		Like others, they exploited the early Comstock and its vast economic opportunities.
		The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode.
	www.nevadahumanities.org /encyclopedia/spanish.htm (247 words)

	Comstock Lode Tunnel Company signed by Theodore Sutro - Virginia City, Nevada 1889
		The Sutro Tunnel Company was organized by Adolph Sutro for the purpose of constructing a drainage tunnel under the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada.
		On February 4, 1865 the Nevada legislature granted the company an exclusive franchise to construct a drainage tunnel beginning in the foothills of the Carson River Valley in Lyon County, and terminating in the Comstock Lode of Virginia City.
		Financially it was a loss, as stock became worthless with the decline of Comstock Lode.
	www.scripophily.net /comtuncom181.html (668 words)

	Sutro Tunnel Company Collection NC7
		The earliest items in the collection are a deed (1861) for the Silver Lode mining claim which Sutro purchased from Stillman and Katherine Wilson, and a copy of the Nevada Legislature's 1865 act granting Sutro a franchise to construct a mining and drainage tunnel.
		The Sutro Tunnel and Railway to the Comstock Lode in the State of Nevada.
		The Sutro Tunnel to the Comstock Lode in the State of Nevada.
	www.library.unr.edu /specoll/mss/NC7.html (2242 words)

	The Comstock Load Morgan Dollar
		The silver find was named the Comstock lode, and as it was mined it produced as much as $8,000,000 worth of silver per month---at a time when a dollar was a considerable amount of money.
		Although the Comstock lode made men rich, the vast amount of silver flowing out of Nevada depressed silver prices worldwide to their lowest levels in history.
		This policy was never a problem until the Comstock lode was discovered---but as rivers of silver began to flow out of Nevada to the Mint, many in Congress demanded a halt to the Free Coinage system.
	www.collectsource.com /comstock.htm (980 words)

	The Comstock Lode
		But no other strike had more influence than the Comstock Lode discovered on Mount Davidson in western Nevada.
		The Comstock Lode was not a single mine but a huge geological formation of ore which many shafts sunk into it.
		Comstock relented, stating that as long as they added Comstock and his friend Emmanuel Penrod to the claim then he would be satisfied.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/18259 (426 words)

	VIRGINIA CITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mineralization and hydrothermal alteration of the Comstock Lode are generally associated with the North-South trending Comstock, Silver City and Occidental faults.
		Thick veins of crushed quartz with silver sulfosalts, native silver and native gold are found in proximity to the faults.
		Vikre (1989) also suggests that the high-sulfidation mineralization is older than the main Lode mineralization, while Hudson (1987) suggests closer time and genetic relationship of quartz-alunite alteration to main Comstock ore (Fig.2).
	www.seismo.unr.edu /ftp/pub/louie/class/453/virginia-city/virginia-city.html (626 words)

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