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Viewed side by side - with the naked eye or under magnification - our Perfect Recreations™ are indistinguishable from the originals. Our Perfect Recreations are Archival Pigment Prints that are printed on Innova Etching Fine Art Cotton Rag Paper using Archival Watercolor Pigment Inks. Map includes distance chart, and illustrations of Donner Lake and the eastern shore of Lake. The two railroads met up at Promontory Summit in Utah in 1869 to much publicized fanfare. The Union Pacific Railroad was constructed west from Council Bluffs, Iowa. The Central Pacific Railroad noted on this map was the nation’s transcontinental eastward line from San Francisco. A great fire in 1875 destroyed much of Virginia City. The silver mines began to diminish about the time of this map’s publishing. During that time the Virginia & Truckee Railroad Company operated a standard-gauge line south from Reno which connected the mining communities.įrom the time silver-ore was discovered in the late 1850's populations in Nevada cities had boomed due to the arrival of miners, speculators, railroad men and merchants, all eager to gain from the valuable ore. Reno was named the new county seat of Washoe County in 1871. The Truckee River Valley was an important agricultural region and Reno was a marketing center for westbound settlers and local miners. This necessitated the building of a railroad which could transport ore and serve the communities of Virginia City, Carson City, Silver City, and Gold Hill. The silver-ore discovery created a tremendous amount of mining activity throughout the region. It displays cities, towns, deserted towns, mountains, lakes, rivers, mountain passes, and railroads.ĭuring the 1870's the Virginia Mountain Range of Nevada was of great interest as news of the Comstock Lode spread far and wide. This topographical map showing Lake Tahoe and vicinity was published in 1874 using compiled information provided by Ferdinand von Leicht and J.D. Topographical Map of Lake Tahoe and surrounding country. Topographical map of Lake Tahoe and surrounding country

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