The gold rush started with a person named James Marshall finding gold at Sutter’s mill. Though gold is very valuable, there were better ways to make money during the gold rush. By the end of the gold rush, California, which is the state that the gold rush happened, had enough people to become a state.
On January 24, 1848. A very lucky man named James Marshall found gold at Sutter’s mill in California. Marshall was working on building Sutter’s mill when he saw a shiny speck in the stream by the mill. This shiny speck was gold. He told his boss named John Sutter, and they both promised not to tell anyone. But somehow people learned about this and they rushed to California to try to make their fortune. These people came to be called the 49ers or gold seekers. Though after the first couple years you could still find gold most of the miners that became rich, came early. During the year 1849 90,000 people came to California to mine for gold. Many people left their jobs to go mine for gold. During the gold rush the eastern population reduced a lot and half the California soldiers left to mine for gold. The camps that the miners worked in were called boom towns because the population in these towns increased a lot in a short amount of time. The most famous of the boom towns is called San Francisco. There were three ways to get to California one by land, one by sea, and one by both. So how would you get there?
These are some of the mining tools that they used to find gold. Such as a shovel a pan and pickaxes. People sold these items to make money during the gold rush instead of mining.
Even though you could make a ton of money during the gold rush there were better ways to make money. For example, you could make a lot of money from selling tools to the miners. Now you must be thinking how you could make more money selling tools than mining for gold. Well, how you would do this is by buying all the tools from the east and selling them for a lot more in California, millions of miners wanted tools so, yeah you would make a lot of money. Did you know because they couldn’t find gold most of the miners became farmers or ranchers? Or you could give lectures to people in the east for a good profit because they want to know whether it is a good idea to go too California to mine for gold. So how would you make money during the gold rush?
At the end of the gold rush there was about 30,000 native Americans in California whereas before the gold rush there was only 14,000 native Americans in California. See not only the Americans wanted some of that gold. The gold rush lasted a long time. It lasted 12 years, it went from 1848 to 1860. In those 12 years only about 10,000 miners became rich from mining for gold. Yeah, yeah, only 10,000 MINERS! Yes 10,000 is a big number but there were millions of miners that came to California to mine for gold. Here let’s compare them. 1,000,000>10,000 (1%). So not many miners found gold. So, do you think you have the luck to find a lot of gold and become rich?
In conclusion the gold rush was a very important 12 years in California’s history. It is the main reason why California became a state and rerouted the states future. So, who do you think told everyone about the gold finding at Sutter’s mill? Was it Sutter or Marshall?
These are some of the mining tools that they used to find gold. Such as a shovel a pan and pickaxes. People sold these items to make money during the gold rush instead of mining.
Even though you could make a ton of money during the gold rush there were better ways to make money. For example, you could make a lot of money from selling tools to the miners. Now you must be thinking how you could make more money selling tools than mining for gold. Well, how you would do this is by buying all the tools from the east and selling them for a lot more in California, millions of miners wanted tools so, yeah you would make a lot of money. Did you know because they couldn’t find gold most of the miners became farmers or ranchers? Or you could give lectures to people in the east for a good profit because they want to know whether it is a good idea to go too California to mine for gold. So how would you make money during the gold rush?
At the end of the gold rush there was about 30,000 native Americans in California whereas before the gold rush there was only 14,000 native Americans in California. See not only the Americans wanted some of that gold. The gold rush lasted a long time. It lasted 12 years, it went from 1848 to 1860. In those 12 years only about 10,000 miners became rich from mining for gold. Yeah, yeah, only 10,000 MINERS! Yes 10,000 is a big number but there were millions of miners that came to California to mine for gold. Here let’s compare them. 1,000,000>10,000 (1%). So not many miners found gold. So, do you think you have the luck to find a lot of gold and become rich?
In conclusion the gold rush was a very important 12 years in California’s history. It is the main reason why California became a state and rerouted the states future. So, who do you think told everyone about the gold finding at Sutter’s mill? Was it Sutter or Marshall?
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