This mural painted on the Sutro Motel depicts the Sutro Tunnel: "a drainage tunnel (adit) connected to the Comstock Lode in Northern Nevada. It begins at Virginia City, Nevada and empties approximately 6 miles southeast near the town of Dayton, Nevada" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Tunnel). A mule-drawn mine cart with people riding in it emerges from the tunnel on a mine railway that leads to a shirtless thickly-mustached man (perhaps Adolf Sutro, the engineer of the tunnel) holding a lantern. To the left of the tunnel is the word "Comstock," behind which a banner begins and flows across the mural and into a flourish design in the lower-right corner of the mural. The words "Battle Born" appear on the banner over the right shoulder of the man and the words "Silver State" appear on the portion of the banner that flows around and flanks the mine railway. Over the man's left shoulder, "$1,000" is painted in a gray bubble in front of the banner.
