We want to thank Chris from The Friends of Sutro Foundation for having us come out and explore this beautiful Treasure of History. If you can make a Donation or share your time helping them restore the area, then please contact them at this link thesutrotunnel.org/ or you can call them at (775) 900-0507 and let them know we sent ya . Together, we can restore this piece of American Mining History for all generations to enjoy. Thanks
Regarding barns being red: Long ago farmers would seal their wood barns with Linseed oil, they would mix in Iron Oxide to prevent mold and rot, this why all those old old barns are still red as they rot into the earth.
The steel block directly out in front of the tunnel was used by surveyor when digging the tunnel. Aka a surveyors marker. Used to keep digging straight from start to finish when the tunnel was being built.
I definitely learned a lot from this video. Fascinating how all the drifts connect to a single tunnel like this. Shows these old timers were serious. Thanks for yet another excellent video Jeff. So come on, LET'S GOOOOOOO!
My dad took me there back in the early 70's. One of his bar buddies lived there. Back then, the entrance was collapsed. It was a fun time exploring the area. Glad to see work being done on it! Yes I will be donating to it.
What a awesome historical story. Thanks Chris, Jeff, and Lila for an fart smellin adventure into our mining history. The restoration is coming along great and hope to see the Sutro Tunnel cleaned out so we can see the whole thing. Yeah Jeff, you gotta be our tour guide. Love how Lila goes around while the guys are talking inside the buildings. Jeff is like a mouse running around too fast for Lila to catch up. Haha. Love it guys. Shhhh, let's go!
THANK YOU LELA FOR GREAT CAMERA WORK,CHRIS FOR SHOWING JEFF AROUND AND JEFF FOR THE GREAT PLAY BY PLAY..WOW,,I SEEN A FEW YTers GO HERE BUT NEVER IN TUNNEL OR SUCH A IN DEPTH TOUR OF LOTS OF BUILDINGS..THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH..SAFE TRAVELS..
Thank you Jeff I always enjoy seeing that old buildings from yesteryear I always enjoy it I'm glad it's still around thank you very much for the tour and thank you friend
Jeff. I just want to say that your enthusiasm is pretty awesome. You genuinely love this stuff and actually get to experience and appreciate it. We then get to learn by watching. Thanks for doing what you do and sharing your education.
Wow! That was really very very cool. Thanx for the invite. Love this video. And I think those iron plates on that slab were mounts for a conveyor system
So much history!! This was absolutely incredible! Thank y'all for sharing this! Man I wish I could go back in time and see it all in it's glory. I'd put myself to work immediately and stay. Haha
Another awesome show from Jeff thanks Chris. Glad you all are still showcasing historical sites and just being here to show something good to watch. Thank man Bri
I think that's a brilliant idea shotCrete . By applying the proper structure for the future generations to explore and have tours and teachable Moments in a safe environment. Virginian city is a wonderful place to enjoy our past highlights. Great job everyone. 💪
Areet Jeff ❤️💛💚👍 great video man. Very interesting video. Fun fact for ya in this country people used to keep farm animals on the ground floor and the family would live upstairs. The animals would be safe from thieves and family would be warm from the body temperature of the animals. I used to live in a house from the 1600's which started out that way.
Smiling! Wow just think of all the stories and westerns that were told about the Comstock mine and load back in the day. Very cool to see it being preserved. Great history for sure!
Many old barns were painted red as Iron Ore was crushed and mixed with linseed oil. It was a fairly easy process that many people could do for themselves.
I’ve been subscribed for many moons and seen most all your videos and the editing, Location, original personification, Intensity, background history context and more made this video my favorite of all next to the video where you had a model of a river system and showed how the sands and gold traverse the river, thanks for all the work to share all this you do, Be continuously blessed and I’m looking forward to more.
Wow great tour. Jeff really liked that spiral staircase time to add onto the cabin and put one in. Jeff always has so much energy he can scamper up and down those spiral steps like no problem. Us couch sitting chip eaten beer drinkin lazy fart smellers I mean pretty smart fellers not so much. Thank you for taking us along great job on the camera work MS Lila love your show.
Wow what a awesome amazing place. Thank you Jeff for showing us this. Those guys are doing a beautiful job restoring everything. I love that American people like this want to preserve history. I'm in Australia and this doesn't happen, especially with old mines. If I wasn't in Australia I would love to volunteer my work.
WHAT A FANTASIC PROJECT well done so far. bet you have checked that swimming pool and drain pond for gold enjoyed this one cool man thanks for recording it, Jeff and your lovely camara operator
Awesome visit back in history. You ever go to the old iron mines of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? I know they don't hold any gold but they find gold along the shore of lake superior and there used to be a silver mine out in the lake.
Hi Jeff what a fascinating video and brilliantly put together. I hope you do a follow up video as and when he starts to clear the way into the Tunnel and drains that water. Well done Jeff for this one as I’ve never heard of the Sutro tunnel and I’m finding it very interesting. Come on Jeff letsssss goooooo. 👍👏👏👏
Thank you Jeff, Chris, and Lila on a fantastic historical journey to one of the greatest places in Nevada history !!! So awesome to see so much stuff that probably hasn't be revealed in a century !! Can't wait to get a tour !! 🤠⛏⚒👍👍
That was, by far, the most interesting video I have ever seen on RUclips!! Jeff, i have just gotten into gold panning here in Idaho, which has some very nice rock formations, and your channel is the only one I can binge watch!! This was the most educational 6 pack I have ever drank.....
I'm a Jeff fan. I don't care what he's doing. Well, it's always better when he's laughing. But I also love to hear him teach! 💋💋💋. Jeff makes dirt & rock sound interesting. ❤️❤️❤️
Great job on this historical video/ tour Jeff and Lila! One day soon all generations will be able to see and learn a little history at Sutro Tunnel! Keep them coming!
That was super cool! Thank you so much for sharing. I love learning the history of our country especially where they are trying to bring life back to these places. Very nice!
Awesome 💯🆒 love to see stuff rebuilt to original. Old machinery, timber structures and learning the high that goes with it. I live in Australia and am in a wheelchair. I have read of the Constock Load . I just thought it was a fictional story
Jeff my brother this is in my back yard, I am here in Reno love all the history here in this part of Nevada I just need to find good places close to detect for gold and dry wash since I love gold lol
Hey Jeff I HAVE ONE of those planers but really it's a molder you can make ship lap siding ,moldings wood gutters any thing , the one I have was made in 1876
It is my understanding that, by the time the tunnel reached the mines, the workings were well below the tunnel so that it was of less value for drainage. The "bank crowd" that controlled many of the mines frowned on the tunnel as it competed with their Virginia and Truckee Railroad and the mills they owned on the Comstock and along the Carson River. The planer is actually a moulder or matcher as it did the edges as well as the top. Probably, the side cutters could do profiles such as tongue and groove or shiplap. Very informative video. How hot was the water coming from the tunnel?
That is actually a four head mill. I worked with one when I was an apprentice in Kansas in the 1990s. There is another one in a field in north western Nebraska. It is on the north west side of the pass and just south of the town of Crawford Nebraska. It’s at an old abandoned homestead.
Sunny Jim, thanks for the History Lesson....Very Sketchy mine...But most Excellent Pee Ditch....😁...You must have lots of money to be able to hire a most Beautiful Photographer.....You da man...........Wondering if this mine has any worm people?......Thanks for the video old son.................JB.✌
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We want to thank Chris from The Friends of Sutro Foundation for having us come out and explore this beautiful Treasure of History. If you can make a Donation or share your time helping them restore the area, then please contact them at this link thesutrotunnel.org/ or you can call them at (775) 900-0507 and let them know we sent ya . Together, we can restore this piece of American Mining History for all generations to enjoy. Thanks
Awesome video Jeff i love the historie.
Nice history. However I do not see this ever being repaired unless millions of dollars are donated. Best of wishes.
@@MakingUsThink similar was said about Cerro Gordo, and look how far Brent has gotten with it.
@@scottmarshall4996 exactly
Thanks Chris thanks for making it happen
Regarding barns being red: Long ago farmers would seal their wood barns with Linseed oil, they would mix in Iron Oxide to prevent mold and rot, this why all those old old barns are still red as they rot into the earth.
Linseed oil rust and milk
@@DryLakeMiningCo49 thanks
Our barn on our farm was red when I was a kid, then I painted it white, I wished later that I would have left it red.
The house was white because they would whitewash it and use the "expensive" stuff to protect their money maker, aka the barn.
And Epstein didn’t kill himself
i live just down the road from the Sutro tunnel. Im so glad someone is finally restoring it
thats great
Fantastic tour Jeff, thanks. When I watch this video all I can think of was Bonanza, and the Ponderosa. 🤠👷♂️
Glad you enjoyed it
for me. this is my favorite video you and your wife have made. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
What a remarkable piece of history Jeff you outdid yourself with this absolutely amazing
thanks ...we have always loved this place and Virginia City
The steel block directly out in front of the tunnel was used by surveyor when digging the tunnel. Aka a surveyors marker. Used to keep digging straight from start to finish when the tunnel was being built.
Bingo
I definitely learned a lot from this video. Fascinating how all the drifts connect to a single tunnel like this. Shows these old timers were serious. Thanks for yet another excellent video Jeff. So come on, LET'S GOOOOOOO!
My dad took me there back in the early 70's. One of his bar buddies lived there. Back then, the entrance was collapsed. It was a fun time exploring the area. Glad to see work being done on it! Yes I will be donating to it.
thanks for the story and for Donating
Fantastic 🤗 knew about the sutro tunnel had no clue that community was all out there! Or that folk were living out there into the 70’s 😳 … ✌️🤙
What a awesome historical story. Thanks Chris, Jeff, and Lila for an fart smellin adventure into our mining history. The restoration is coming along great and hope to see the Sutro Tunnel cleaned out so we can see the whole thing. Yeah Jeff, you gotta be our tour guide. Love how Lila goes around while the guys are talking inside the buildings. Jeff is like a mouse running around too fast for Lila to catch up. Haha. Love it guys. Shhhh, let's go!
Love the tour..
The planer looks like the one I used back in junior high, I'm SOoooooo old.
Dang
That was the best you tube tours of the Sutro Tunnel. i’ll keep that history alive by donating thank you ❤
Thanks Max .....really appreciate that too
Excellent video Jeff, this is so awesome to see all this history returning to it's former glory, how extraordinary !
Lots of great history right there. The Friends of Sutro are doing a lot of good work. Thanks for showing us around and sharing your knowledge, Jeff!
yes they are ......you betcha T and J
amazing footage and documentary. Thanks for sharing Jeff and family!
Our pleasure!
One of the best videos I have seen, thank you for sharing this one.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching your channels does bring history into your geology information. This fantastic. Thank you Jeff!
That telegraph machine…. Never have I heard of such a device. It had letters and numbers… mind blown. 👍👍👍
THANK YOU LELA FOR GREAT CAMERA WORK,CHRIS FOR SHOWING JEFF AROUND AND JEFF FOR THE GREAT PLAY BY PLAY..WOW,,I SEEN A FEW YTers GO HERE BUT NEVER IN TUNNEL OR SUCH A IN DEPTH TOUR OF LOTS OF BUILDINGS..THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH..SAFE TRAVELS..
Really Glad you enjoyed it . Thanks RRR
Thank you Jeff I always enjoy seeing that old buildings from yesteryear I always enjoy it I'm glad it's still around thank you very much for the tour and thank you friend
you betcha
I can't explain how unbelievably awesomely cool this video is. First explorations for decades. This video is a piece of history in and of itself.
thanks you so much for that
Very cool; thanks for posting. You were only about 4 miles from my house.
Very cool!
WOW That Was the best 45 minutes that I have spent in a LONG time!!! Thanks Jeff for presenting this fascinating project. Will Donate for Sure!!!
thank you Rich , really appreciate that
AWESOME!! You got to do what a lot of us have wanted to do for years.
Jeff. I just want to say that your enthusiasm is pretty awesome. You genuinely love this stuff and actually get to experience and appreciate it. We then get to learn by watching. Thanks for doing what you do and sharing your education.
really appreciate that Mike
@@Askjeffwilliams i want to ask you some quastion. How to refine stone gold?
Great work! Hoping to visit the mine when it's open one day.
Wow! That was really very very cool. Thanx for the invite. Love this video. And I think those iron plates on that slab were mounts for a conveyor system
Thoroughly enjoyed this video , great vacation destination
what an amazing place i hope they manage to restore and open up the whole site!
So much history!! This was absolutely incredible! Thank y'all for sharing this! Man I wish I could go back in time and see it all in it's glory. I'd put myself to work immediately and stay. Haha
thanks
Another awesome show from Jeff thanks Chris. Glad you all are still showcasing historical sites and just being here to show something good to watch. Thank man
Bri
Our pleasure!
I think that's a brilliant idea shotCrete . By applying the proper structure for the future generations to explore and have tours and teachable Moments in a safe environment. Virginian city is a wonderful place to enjoy our past highlights. Great job everyone. 💪
Absolutely
Great vid! This is the kind of episode that got me hooked years ago. Thanks for cooking this one up and serving it.
you betcha
never mind gold or silver mining. With the price of wood right now that place is a lumber mine :P
This is so awesome, I'm glad to see this being restored the right way
thanks Scott
@@Askjeffwilliams oh you betcha
That was awesome, im excited to see it being restored. I'm definitely interested. Thanks again Jeff. Really appreciate it.
Very cool! Thanks!
thank you
Absolutely fantastic video Jeff! Thank you to Chris for keeping history alive.
you betcha
Thanks Jeff and Lila.Jim and I love watching you guys
Very kool never seen anything like this wow amazing history good job Jeff just awesome 👌
thanks
Areet Jeff ❤️💛💚👍 great video man. Very interesting video. Fun fact for ya in this country people used to keep farm animals on the ground floor and the family would live upstairs. The animals would be safe from thieves and family would be warm from the body temperature of the animals. I used to live in a house from the 1600's which started out that way.
Thanks for the info
Awesome job Jeff on spreading the word and keeping history alive
Smiling!
Wow just think of all the stories and westerns that were told about the Comstock mine and load back in the day. Very cool to see it being preserved.
Great history for sure!
I know...right
Another great video. I love seeing how they lived and worked back then.
Many old barns were painted red as Iron Ore was crushed and mixed with linseed oil. It was a fairly easy process that many people could do for themselves.
Sutro Tunnel Rd is the best off road trail in town. So glad they're restoring this place! Can't wait to tour it.
I’ve been subscribed for many moons and seen most all your videos and the editing, Location, original personification, Intensity, background history context and more made this video my favorite of all next to the video where you had a model of a river system and showed how the sands and gold traverse the river, thanks for all the work to share all this you do, Be continuously blessed and I’m looking forward to more.
thanks AH , we really appreciate that .
A really awesome journey over the entire complex like l was there 👏👏👏🧠🍻
Glad you enjoyed it
4:00 trippy. Watching this half delirious because I'm tired, and this tripped mee out before I realized what was happening
The video the music and the commentary a masterpiece you never cease to amaze me. Bravo. Bravo
thanks Sd
thanks jeff! I took a trip and never left the farm. :-) love the sound track as well.
Wow great tour. Jeff really liked that spiral staircase time to add onto the cabin and put one in. Jeff always has so much energy he can scamper up and down those spiral steps like no problem. Us couch sitting chip eaten beer drinkin lazy fart smellers I mean pretty smart fellers not so much. Thank you for taking us along great job on the camera work MS Lila love your show.
you betcha Clifford
Wow what a awesome amazing place. Thank you Jeff for showing us this. Those guys are doing a beautiful job restoring everything. I love that American people like this want to preserve history. I'm in Australia and this doesn't happen, especially with old mines. If I wasn't in Australia I would love to volunteer my work.
WHAT A FANTASIC PROJECT well done so far. bet you have checked that swimming pool and drain pond for gold enjoyed this one cool man thanks for recording it, Jeff and your lovely camara operator
Mining and prospecting ⛏️ really was the backbone of America before WW2. Great video Jeff. Thank you for sharing with us.
Pretty cool, Jeff. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Been awhile, but I am back. I hope to be a Patreon this year.
welcome back and hope to see you over on the Patreon site again ...be safe out there
I'm a new customer but, I'll be there
Great day out fam. Keep on having fun and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how much work it would have been to build something like this. Thanks for the awesome video Jeff.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is so cool, thanks, Jeff!
Awesome visit back in history. You ever go to the old iron mines of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? I know they don't hold any gold but they find gold along the shore of lake superior and there used to be a silver mine out in the lake.
Hi Jeff what a fascinating video and brilliantly put together. I hope you do a follow up video as and when he starts to clear the way into the Tunnel and drains that water. Well done Jeff for this one as I’ve never heard of the Sutro tunnel and I’m finding it very interesting. Come on Jeff letsssss goooooo. 👍👏👏👏
we will do that ...thanks
loving the history, great camera work from the wife
thanks
Thank you Jeff, Chris, and Lila on a fantastic historical journey to one of the greatest places in Nevada history !!! So awesome to see so much stuff that probably hasn't be revealed in a century !! Can't wait to get a tour !! 🤠⛏⚒👍👍
Hi Allan,
you betcha ....there is sooooo much left in there and 4 miles of it too ....imagine connecting to the other great mines of the Comstock Lode
That was, by far, the most interesting video I have ever seen on RUclips!!
Jeff, i have just gotten into gold panning here in Idaho, which has some very nice rock formations, and your channel is the only one I can binge watch!!
This was the most educational 6 pack I have ever drank.....
thanks ...much appreciated
great to see a young guy so enthusiastic about the whole project
Cool video, just love these old places , equipment-stuff (super innovative) and back stories. Thank you all for sharing the fun.
Our pleasure!
Awesome collection of history thanks for showing how much it took to live in this time.
Our pleasure!
I'm a Jeff fan. I don't care what he's doing. Well, it's always better when he's laughing. But I also love to hear him teach! 💋💋💋. Jeff makes dirt & rock sound interesting. ❤️❤️❤️
thanks MW
Thats so amazing thank you for sharing and thank you to all the people keeping that history alive.
Great video Jeff informative educational historical can't wait for more information about the Sutro tunnel
Cheers Jeff so great to experience the history I can picture the folk working and living there m. Great tour!!
Great job on this historical video/ tour Jeff and Lila! One day soon all generations will be able to see and learn a little history at Sutro Tunnel!
Keep them coming!
I hope so!
That was super cool! Thank you so much for sharing. I love learning the history of our country especially where they are trying to bring life back to these places. Very nice!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your wife does a wonderful job with that camera.
thanks and yes she does huh
Awesome 💯🆒 love to see stuff rebuilt to original. Old machinery, timber structures and learning the high that goes with it. I live in Australia and am in a wheelchair. I have read of the Constock Load . I just thought it was a fictional story
Thanks 👍...yep its real
Jeff my brother this is in my back yard, I am here in Reno love all the history here in this part of Nevada I just need to find good places close to detect for gold and dry wash since I love gold lol
there is Gold still to be had
Hey Jeff I HAVE ONE of those planers but really it's a molder you can make ship lap siding ,moldings wood gutters any thing , the one I have was made in 1876
Very cool place would love to see it
Education at its best!
Great video jeff thanks
Great video!
Upstairs in the mule barn is where they kept the hay. the Hayloft
Awesome video there's a lot of history in Virginia City thank for posting.
Excellent video great job..this is a great teaching tool.
Another Jewel ! Williams Family Rocks ! 🔈🔉🔊⛏⚜
I'd come out and detect it for you. Bet we could find all kinds of lost history and money. Would be cool to add it to the museum for those to see
Excellent tour…what an amazing piece of history! Help out Chris if you can guys, he’s doing an epic job!
thanks and exactly
I enjoyed this fascinating and entertaining episode!
Jeff you've taken me to places i wouldn't have known,i love watching everyone of your videos. Thanks
Glad you like them!
Amazing!
What a great opportunity and video! Awesome stuff!!
thanks TKJ
It is my understanding that, by the time the tunnel reached the mines, the workings were well below the tunnel so that it was of less value for drainage. The "bank crowd" that controlled many of the mines frowned on the tunnel as it competed with their Virginia and Truckee Railroad and the mills they owned on the Comstock and along the Carson River.
The planer is actually a moulder or matcher as it did the edges as well as the top. Probably, the side cutters could do profiles such as tongue and groove or shiplap.
Very informative video. How hot was the water coming from the tunnel?
you are correct David
That is actually a four head mill. I worked with one when I was an apprentice in Kansas in the 1990s.
There is another one in a field in north western Nebraska. It is on the north west side of the pass and just south of the town of Crawford Nebraska. It’s at an old abandoned homestead.
Sunny Jim, thanks for the History Lesson....Very Sketchy mine...But most Excellent Pee Ditch....😁...You must have lots of money to be able to hire a most Beautiful Photographer.....You da man...........Wondering if this mine has any worm people?......Thanks for the video old son.................JB.✌
thanks JB
Thanks Jeff! I love the mining history lessons! Fascinating!
I was always wondering about the Comstock mine!!!
you betcha
WOW!!! Nice work Chris! Great video!
Thanks for watching
Lots of history and a big museum right there...in very good shape ....Like jeff in wonderful land 😜
🦅🇺🇸💪🤠👍 that's freaking awesome thank you for the video. And yeah I'm gonna watch the next video
I read about the Sutro Tunnel in the book Men To Match My Mountains. Very interesting to see this video. Great history. My favorite book
Very cool!