Published by Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, San Francisco., 305 pp, illustrated with 17 plates with 6 pgs. of advertisements at end; not indexed.. 9 x 6, Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt decoration and titles on front cover and spine. A study of the silver mining industry of Nevada. Features chapters and sections on: geology and natural history of the Comstock Lode; mining methods, equipment, etc.; sketches of principle silver mines of Nevada; mining and territory laws of the period; descriptions of mineral deposits; descriptions of Nevada cities, railroads, and byways; and biographical sketches of key figures in the mining industry of the time (John P. Jones and William Sharon). Contains descriptions of most of the Comstock mines, and goes on to report on mining methods, the quartz and tailing mills in Lyon, Ormsby and Storey counties, discusses prominent silver mines such as Gould & Curry, Yellow Jacket, Belcher, Caledonia and others, gives a brief account of the Sutro Tunnel and then proceeds to cover the mines of Central and Eastern Nevada. The illustrations of all the major pieces of mining equipment for the mill are reproduced from the actual detailed blueprint drawings. One of the ads is for the well-known Thomas Price Assay office in Sacramento. It also reports on the mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes etc. of Nevada, cities, railroads, flumes and water ditches and even social and educational conditions. Howes, USiana, P-526. Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California p.180. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 1577: "Powell is one of the best reference works on early Nevada mill construction." Cover is worn and faded, hinges starting but holding, otherwise the overall condition is very good. Very scarce especially in this condition. Nevada 1876