January 1848 was James Marshall the building from a sawmill for his employer, checked, when he saw an odd rock to reverse soil glistened.
He wasn't sure whether it gold or was not and not people wanted to get up hope. So, Marshall tried to break the yellow rock with a hammer. It does not crack, but it dent. would just like gold. The wife was the saw mill construction crew, cooking meals rock in lye trying another test of boiling.
It cooked all day, but it changed not color. So, pass the rocks of the mill's owner, John Sutter, who a few tests. At the end, everyone agreed that gold was in fact this rock.
It seems that huge hordes of gold hidden Nevada Sierra, but mountain streams, washed over tens of thousands of years, erosion to gold nuggets you below were relaxed to the bottom of the mountains. Sutter's-property was situated between two rivers and was likely to generate the wealth.
Sutter had plans to build an agricultural Empire on its 39,000 acres of land, so he asked his employees about the strike to remain calm. However, as is expected, leaked word out. Gold reached news of eventually find the small town of San Francisco.
There an editor of the newspaper the streets called: "Gold of the American River!" and three days of arriving messages, 400 600 settlers had set out for Sutter's country. It was a wave and until end of gold seekers had traveled to California from as far afield as Mexico and Chile.
As Word of the gold strike in the East Coast President Polk confirmed the finding. It was December 1848 and ' the gold rush' was a national and even global event. The gold diggers of 1849 and later became known as forty niners.
What has be remembered, however, that most people who came from Canada, Mexico and the Eastern United States by train car, came there were no locomotive! This meant an arduous journey of between six and nine months
Still, at least 32,000 people actually went to California in the years 1849 and approximately 44,000 got more 1850. Others, faced as South Americans, an arduous journey by sea. Suffered storms, shipwrecks, hunger and thirst, disease and overcrowding and after all was that some mule still undergo travel through jungles and deserts! In less than a year, about 40,000 people from overseas is still, arrived in San Francisco.
The variety of backgrounds rose umpteen times, but a dramatic change in California gives the newcomers population, because in 1848, California about 100,000 people who were most Indians, but within two years of the State population more than doubled.
Found some gold mining gold and made a lot of money in the California rivers, but most people in the gold rush become rich. When gold was found, the cache was usually quickly deleted. James Marshall had little success as a miner and he died impoverished. John Sutter, who once had 39,000 hectares owned California left in over-indebtedness, after gold country be flattened.
In fact, it was easier the miners money sell make shovels and other supplies. Most people lost everything they had, were the wide called work California or companies to set up. 1856 San Francisco had a very multiethnic population of more than 50,000 people and California had become the most exciting State in the nation.
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