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COMSTOCK MINING, 1865-1885, AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS.

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At History Data Desk, Comstock Page, material relating to the discovery of gold and silver on the Comstock Lode in and around Virginia City, Nevada, can be accessed, including a full-length, footnoted manuscript on the economics of mining from 1865 to 1885, based on little-used primary sources in Nevada and California archives. A statistical profile of Comstock mining plus profiles of individual companies such as Consolidated Virginia and California Mining Companies, the creations of John Mackay and James Fair, are presented in considerable detail.

Over the next few months all of the Comstock files will be migrated to Inside My Desk, although they will continue to be available at History Data Desk. Availability of the files as well as changes to files will be announced here as they occur. Changes will be exclusively adapted for the files (such as linking archival datasets to sections of the manuscript) at Inside My Desk and will not be extended to the Comstock Page at History Data Desk.

Some chapters from the Comstock manuscripts are currently available at Inside My Desk under Publish Not Perish, and they will remain there until the migration is completed.

The National Perspective in Post-Civil-War America

A: Economic Growth, Coinage Questions, Monetary Policy, click here.

The Nevada Perspective in Post-Civil-War America

B: Overview of Nevada Mining, Geology of Comstock Lode, click here.

Statistical Profile of Mining Industry

C: From Prospectors to Investors, Profile Database, Costs versus Profits, click here.

D: First Stage 1860 to 1870, click here.

E: Second Stage 1870 to 1875, click here.

F: Third Stage 1875 to 1880 and Final Stage 1880 to 1885, click here.

The Business Of Mining

G: Claims & Counterclaims, Miners' Codes, Costly Litigation, click here.

H: Claims & Challenges of Deep-Lode Mining, Working Bonanzas at Belcher & Crown Point, click here.

I: Types of Mills, Economics of Milling, Mills Owners & Operations, click here.

J: Essential, Redoubtable Worker, Wages & Unions, Size of Labor Force, Tenure of Worker Types of Mills, click here.

K: The Sutro Tunnel, Ever-Expanding Technological Base, click here.

The Biggest Bonanza

L: Location & Size of Bonanza, The Founders, click here.

M: Consolidated Virginia Launched, Relaunched, Peaked & Diminished, California in Bonanza, click here.

N: Assays Unlimited, Digging & Hoisting the Underground, click here.

O: Labor Component, C&C Joint Shaft, Squire Dewey & Financial Chicanery, click here.

P: Refining A Financial Bonanza, Other Mineral Mercury, Founders' Cash Flow, click here.

Mining Taxes And Public Revenues

Q: Vexing Question-Mining Taxes, 1871 Mining-Proceeds Tax Amendment, Measuring Tax Impact, Tax Rates, Adjustments & Revisions, click here.

R: Tax Revenues and Government Finances, Tax Showdown, County and Municipal Property Taxes, click here.

An Assessment, click here.

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ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHY, ECONOMIC HISTORY, ca. 1500-1800, MAINLY ATLANTIC WORLD, SOME PACIFIC WORLD.
LISTED BY AUTHOR.
APPROXIMATELY 3,000 ITEMS.
DOWNLOADABLE AS PDF FILE.

The On-Line Bibliography was originally prepared for History Data Desk and will continue to appear there until the end of 2008. Revisions will only appear here on Inside My Desk, which has become its new home. It is only available on IMD in pdf format.
Click here.

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Comments or questions should be sent to Richard Garner at the email address below.