Gold+Rush

In Janurary 1848 James Wilson Marshall discovered gold whiling working outside of a saw mill. That was not smartest thing to do was tell everybody. Once he told everybody everybody started to look for the gold. The probelm was did hardly found any gold at all so it was not worth looking for.The Gold Rush was a very important to people who wanted to find gold. Gold was discove //Visit the Historic// [|//Photo Gallery//] //, to see these photos and more// **C** alifornia is called the "Golden State" possibly for many reasons, among which, and in addition to its abundant sunshine, is the exciting and colorful history of the Gold Rush. Along the Mother Lode Highway 49 on the way to Coloma, among the flowering white dogwoods, olive colored oaks and towering cedar, there are remnants of this history: old stone cabins and buildings, mining equipment, and stamp mills that were used to crush gold-bearing quartz. On an icy cold morning early in 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, picked up a few nuggets of gold from the American River at the site of a sawmill he was building for John Sutter near Coloma. By August, the hills above the river were strewn with wood huts and tents as the first of 4,000 miners lured by the gold discovery scrambled to strike it rich. Prospectors, from the East sailed around Cape Horn. Some hiked across the Isthmus of Panama, and by 1849, about 40,000 came to San Franciso by sea alone. Nearly $2,000,000,000 in gold was taken from the earth before mining became dormant.red January 24, 1848 by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma.

Gold was valued from $12.00 to $35.00 an ounce.

At one point, eggs (if any) were $3.00 each; whiskey was $16.00 a bottle, pills were $10.00 each without advice, $100 with.

California Highway 49 is the official Mother Lode trail of the 49'ers (the 1849'ers, that is!)

Types of mining included panning, sluicing, hydraulicking, hardrock or quartz mining, and dredging.

The world's largest nugget, the "Welcome Stranger", weighing in at 200 pounds, was found in Australia in 1869 by two men whose cart got stuck in a muddy road and had to remove a "large rock" (of solid gold!) that was in their way. Oh, those annoying obstacles. . ..

The world's second largest gold nugget, and California's largest, was found at Carson Hill in Calaveras County in 1854. It weighed in at 160 pounds.

Three historic limestone caverns are located in Calaveras County: Moaning Caves in Vallecitos, Mercer Caverns at Murphys, and California Caverns at Cave City.

Amador City is the smallest incorporated city in America.

Historic D'Agostini's winery, in Shenandoah Valley near Plymouth, is the oldest in California.

The Mariposa Gazette is the oldest California newspaper in continued publication.

Hundreds of movies and television features about the Old West and the Gold Rush have been made in Tuolumne County, featuring the Railtown trains and the Sierra Railroad.

Bret Harte and Mark Twain made Tuolumne and Calaveras counties famous with their stories.

The deepest mines on the continent, the Kennedy and Argonaut mines at Jackson, produced more than half of the gold mined in the Mother Lode. Mining ceased there in 1958.

Gold was discovered in California. Many gold miners came to California in 1849.

Oskookumuim Mason had an English name of Skookun Jim. His Tagish Indian name was Keish. Skookum Jim discovered gold that led to the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896.

The Klondike is where the gold rush took place. The Klondike is located in Alaska.

Events George Carmack Shookum, Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie discovered gold in Rabbit Creek. Jan. 24 1848 James Wilson Marshall was hired to build a sawmill were the American Sacramento rivers joined in California.

He walked along the ditch and spied something gleaming at the bottom.

He picked it up and remembered that gold was soft. He bit into the nugget and saw that his teeth marks were left. A second gold rush took place in the yucon during 1903. The gold rush was a very important thing in US history.a whole bunch of people went to california for gold just because of one person.

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