Kurakova Liza group 303 A A gold

Kurakova Liza group 303 A

A gold rush is a period of feverish of migration of workers to an area, that has had a dramatic discovery of gold deposits. It’s all started on January, 24 while establishing a sawmill for John Sutter near Coloma in 1848, James Marshall discovered gold on his piece of land. The news of gold spread around quickly.

California’s ship In 1849, arrived the first large group of miners in San Francisco. By the middle of 1849 "gold rush" has become an epidemic. All men are capable of moving, and even many women left the town and went to the banks of the river Rushen River. The U. S. population was mad, men leave their wives and families, and those who did not have any, just planks nailed their homes or put them on sale for next to nothing. The thirst for gold drove people in California and on the water and on land. Numerous arriving miners needed food, clothing and shelter. Some savvy traders, visiting mines, understood that to maintain miners can make a lot more money than you would get gold, poking in the ground. Under the pressure of the population of California, the government introduced a special tax foreigners. Now, for the month of gold production, the stranger had to pay $ 20 at the time a very large sum.

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During the period of the gold rush in California produced more than one hundred and twenty five million troy ounces of gold (nearly four thousand tons) valued at more than $ 50 billion in current prices. The largest nugget found in California, weighed 195 pounds (88. 5 kilograms). the California gold rush has transformed of the remoteness, difficult and littleknown region in one of the richest states in the U. S. , laying the foundation for its future prosperity.