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Show Steuhouse's Comstock Letters. A Virginia (Xev.) paper, pays tht folio wine compliment to Mr. T. B. H Stenhouse, who has been furuiehiuy to the New York Mirald a Beries ol historical and descriptive lettera on the Comstock mines: The series of letters written from the Comstock by Major T. B. H. 8ten-houae, 8ten-houae, and nnw being published ia the New Turk Herald, are the first really authentic arid exhaustive Utters ever sent from here to any eastern journal, aud should be tecurtd, read and filed away by tvery Storey county citizen. They are b:im full of the moat valuable valua-ble statistics, and, complete, give almost al-most every iiuuurUui fact touching the history ol the great fissure and the progress of min-'ug here for the past eighteen years, ibe amount ol work performed iu the preparation of the letters baa been prodigious, and, besides, be-sides, it ib apparent that every facility must have been extended to the writer ty the Comstock superintendents, for no man, no matter huw brilliant and I industrious, con d ever have prepared these letters without the hearty assist ance of those beat posted iu the history his-tory and management of mining here. This gives the chief value to these papers, for, prepared as they have been, their statements and figures are absolutely correct. It ia almost needless need-less to add that, as a whole, they form such a page in mining history as have no parallel. They will be read with wonder in the circles of Europe where . miuing is a specialty, and to people ' at a distance will give the first really correct impression of what has been j and ia being done here. Major Ston- j house and the Herald are both to be congratulated. ! |