Excerpt from Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting the Report of the Commission to Examine and Report Upon the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada The time of completion is estimated at three and one-half years, which may be reduced to two and one-third years, if machinery be judiciously employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.