Facts about the California Gold Rush?
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The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by mass hysteria concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. The period is also marked by mass migrations into California by people, almost exclusively men, seeking an easy fortune. Most, however, only found enough gold to barely pay for their daily expenses. The rush started at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California on January 24, 1848 when James W. Marshall, an employee of Sacramento agriculturist John Sutter, found a gold nugget. Sutter wanted to suppress this fact because he was more concerned with expanding his utopian ideal of an agricultural empire than finding fortune in the cold American River. But rumors soon surfaced, and confirmed by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan, and the inevitable wave of immigration from around the world called the "49ers" soon invaded what would soon be called the Gold Country of California. As he predicted when he saw the gold nugget, Sutter was ruined as more and more of his agricultural workers left in search of gold and squatters invaded his land and stole his crops.\n\nOn February 2, 1848 the first ship with Chinese immigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrived in San Francisco.\n\nOn August 19, 1848 the New York Herald was the first newspaper on the East Coast of the United States to confirm that there was a gold rush in California; by December 5, 1848, even the President of the United States would announce this before Congress.\n\nThe Gold Rush prompted considerable development in California, and sparked the building of the Panama Railway. The city of San Francisco became at first a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses whose owners had decided to join in the rush, and then, slightly later, boomed as miners returned from the fields, rich or more often broke and looking for wages. Pioneer Ivan McAmmon was first in the city to demand what he called "fair wage" as a shopkeeper. Like many cities of the 19th century, the infrastructures of San Francisco and other boom towns near the fields were strained by the sudden influx; leftover cigar boxes and planks served as a sidewalk, and crime became a problem, causing vigilantes to rise up and serve the populace in the absence of police.\n\nThe Gold Rush led to the destruction and often extinction of many indigenous cultures, languages, and peoples. The population of San Fransico exploded from a mere 1,000 in 1848 to 20,000 full-time residents by 1850.\n\nThe California Gold Rush is generally considered to have ended in 1858, when the New Mexican Gold Rush began.*\n\nFrom the link below.
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In 1851 Hargraves discovered gold in a water hole near Bathurst.\nThis discovery marked the beginning of the Australian gold rushes and a radical change in the economic and social fabric of the nation.\nHargraves could never have dreamt how significant his discovery would be. New South Wales yielded 26.4 tonnes (850,000 ounces) of gold in 1852. This was a mere drop in the ocean compared to the yield from neighbouring Victoria when they joined the rush for gold. \n\nThe Victorian authorities, eager to prevent its population from joining the gold frenzy in NSW, offered a reward of £200 for any gold found within 200 miles of Melbourne. In 1851, six months after the New South Wales find, gold was discovered at Ballarat, and a short time later at Bendigo Creek. \n In 1852 alone, 370,000 immigrants arrived in Australia and the economy of the nation boomed. \n\nThe 'rush' was well and truly on. Victoria contributed more than one third of the world's gold output in the 1850s and in just two years the State's population had grown from 77,000 to 540,000! \n\nThe number of new arrivals to Australia was greater than the number of convicts who had landed here in the previous seventy years. The total population trebled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.\n\nThe gold bullion that was shipped to London each year brought a huge flow of imports. The goldfield towns also sparked a huge boost in business investment and stimulated the market for local produce. The economy was expanding and thriving.
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For some top forecasts on gold’s direction, visit the site below:\n\nI like the real GOLD nuggets. \n\nAs most gold is mined as very fine dust and tiny nuggets, the larger (over 1oz) nuggets are very rare! Actually they are as rare as large diamonds!\n\nI would suggest you look into large nuggets!\n\nTo see the 'live' spot NY gold price and some museum size gold nuggets I suggest you visit a great site I found a few months ago. I purchase a few nuggets from them just about a month ago, and not only are they beautiful to look at but in just the last few weeks they have really moved up in value!\n\nI'm actually saving to purchase others!\n\nThe site is:\n http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/australia-gold-nuggets.htm\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/crystalline-gold-miner.htm\nhttp://california-gold-nuggets-miner.blogspot.com\nhttp://www.brokerforyou.com/brokerforyou\nhttp://www.san-diego-dentist.us\nhttp://www.medical-research-study-directory.info/san-diego-medical-research-study.htm\nhttp://www.lasik-surgery-san-diego.info/lasik-eye-surgery-san-diego.htm\nhttp://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/adsense.htm
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Most states.\n\nFor some top forecasts on gold’s direction, visit the site below:\n\nI like the real GOLD nuggets. \n\nAs most gold is mined as very fine dust and tiny nuggets, the larger (over 1oz) nuggets are very rare! Actually they are as rare as large diamonds!\n\nI would suggest you look into large nuggets!\n\nTo see the 'live' spot NY gold price and some museum size gold nuggets I suggest you visit a great site I found a few months ago. I purchase a few nuggets from them just about a month ago, and not only are they beautiful to look at but in just the last few weeks they have really moved up in value!\n\nI'm actually saving to purchase others!\n\nThe site is:\n http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/australia-gold-nuggets.htm\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/crystalline-gold-miner.htm\nhttp://california-gold-nuggets-miner.blogspot.com\nhttp://www.brokerforyou.com/brokerforyou\nhttp://www.san-diego-dentist.us\nhttp://www.medical-research-study-directory.info/san-diego-medical-research-study.htm\nhttp://www.lasik-surgery-san-diego.info/lasik-eye-surgery-san-diego.htm\nhttp://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/adsense.htm
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This guy (Jorge Gardea-Torresdey from Chihuahua, Mexico), is working on gold with bacteria and plants:\nhttp://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/alfalfa.html\nhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0829/p02s02-usgn.html\nhttp://www.window.state.tx.us/txinnovator/ti0211/\nhttp://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0957-4484/14/7/323/t30723.pdf\nhttp://w3.cetem.gov.br/imaac/News/GrowthofAuNanoparticles.pdf
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"The state names of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Montana and Florida are Spanish"\n\nTranslations:\n\nCalifornia = "The name is thought to have derived from the mythical paradise of Calafia portrayed in Amadís de Gaula, a 16th century Spanish romance by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, which in the book was a difficult to reach land with gold in plenty, free-loving amazons living in caves, and strange beasts.\n\nSome suggest that the word California may come from the early Spanish explorers who entered California via the hot southern regions and referred to California as being "hot as an oven" (cali > hot, fornia > oven). It may be derived from caliente fornalia, Spanish for hot furnace, or it may come from calida fornax, Latin for hot climate."\n\nArizona = "Spanish words "árida zona" ("arid zone")."\n\nNew Mexico = "New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México or, in full, Santa Fe de Nuevo México; alternatively, Nuevo Méjico) was a province of New Spain that existed from the late 16th century up through the early 19th century. It was centered on the upper valley of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), in an area that included most of the present-day U.S. state of New Mexico, with borders extending in the present-day states of Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. Its capital was Santa Fe."\n\nColorado = "The state was named after the Spanish word "Colorado," which means "reddish colored" that presumably refers to the red sandstone formations in the area or reddish brown color of the Colorado River."\n\nNevada = "shortened from Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy range")."\n\nMontana = "derived from the Spanish word montaña ("mountain")."\n\nFlorida = "Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish conquistador, named this new land in honor of his "discovery" of the land on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida, which is a Spanish term for the Easter season. From that date forward, the land became known as "La Florida." (Juan Ponce de León may not have been the first European to reach Florida. At least one of the Indians that he encountered in Florida in 1513 could speak Spanish.)"
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Derived from the Priest Kino expeditions at the end of the 17th century through north Mexico and south U.S., Nevada passed to Spanish control, belonging to the Viceroyalty of New Spain. In 1821 became part of the First Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide, until 1823, and afterwards of Mexico. As a result of the Mexico-American war of 1847-48 and based on the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty, Nevada became part of the United States. On August 14, 1850, the U.S. Congress established the Utah territory which included the present day states of Utah, Idaho and Nevada. The year 1859 saw the discovery of the Comstock Lode, a rich outcropping of gold and silver, and Virginia City sprang up. This discovery brought a flood of miners, prospectors, merchants and others hoping to strike it rich.\n\nOn March 2, 1861, Nevada separated from the Utah territory and adopted its current name, shortened from Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy range"). On October 31, 1864, just eight days prior to the presidential election, Nevada became the 36th state in the union. Statehood was rushed through despite Nevada's tiny population to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's reelection and post-Civil War Republican dominance in congress. As Nevada's mining-based economy tied it to the more industrialized Union, it was viewed as politically reliable (as opposed to the more agrarian and Confederate-sympathizing California).\n\nNevada achieved its current boundaries on May 5, 1866 when it absorbed the portion of Pah-Ute County in the Arizona Territory west of the Colorado River. The transfer was prompted by the discovery of gold in the area, and it was thought that Nevada would be better able to oversee the expected population boom. This area includes most of what is now Clark County, Nevada.\n\nMining shaped Nevada's economy for many years. In the late 19th century, the Comstock Lode played out, and Nevada went into a tailspin. There was even talk of stripping away statehood, the only time in American history such an action was discussed in Congress. However, the rich silver strike at Tonopah in 1900 helped save the state. This was soon followed by strikes in Goldfield and Rhyolite in the following years. These strikes lasted well into the 1910s and made Nevada a dominant player in mining once again.\n\nOver 87% of the land is owned by the Federal Government. The primary reason for this is that homesteads were not permitted in large enough sizes to be viable in the arid conditions that prevail throughout Nevada. Instead, early settlers would homestead land surrounding a water source, and then graze livestock on the adjacent public land, which is useless for agriculture without access to water (this pattern of ranching still prevails). The deficiencies in the Homestead Act as applied to Nevada were probably due to a lack of understanding of the Nevada environment, although some firebrands (so-called "Sagebrush Rebels") maintain that it was due to pressure from mining interests to keep land out of the hands of common folk.\n\nGambling was common in the early Nevada mining towns but was outlawed in 1909 as part of a nation-wide anti-gaming crusade. Due to a sharp decline in mining output in the 1920s and the decline of the agricultural sector during the Great Depression, Nevada re-legalized gambling on March 19, 1931, when senate bill 98 was signed into law. At the time, the leading proponents of gambling expected that it would be a short term fix until the state's economic base widened to include less cyclical industries. However, re-outlawing gambling has never been seriously considered since.\n\nIn 1931, construction began on Hoover Dam near Las Vegas. Thousands of workers from across the country came to build the dam, and providing for their needs in turn required many more workers. The dam, and later war industries such as the Basic Magnesium Plant, first started the growth of the southern area of the state. Over the next 75 years,
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Hi there,\n\nCheck out this website ... I didn't want to cut and paste the whole thing ... it's too large:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/e-gold?method=22
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The Gold Rush started near or at Sutter's Mill. Simply type Sutter's Mill on Google, or California Gold Rush of 1849.
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Lewis and Clark found what was in the Lousiana Purchase. They found the Pacific Ocean.\n\nOcian in View! O! the Joy"\n~William Clark, Nov. 7, 1805
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold\n\nWikipedia is a good place to start
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it was the 38th state, close but not quite, you know with a little research you can find these things on your own.\ncheck out the website i provided if your interested in more.\nbtw, it's so sad how i knew the answer to your question and i'm from california! well, toodles!
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You can buy white powder of gold from the site below, it gives a detailed description of it's history,  what it is and the possible benefits too.\n\nhttp://www.whitepowdergold.com/
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William H. Warner a topographical engineer laid out  the city plan for what was to become Sacramento in the year 1848. He was hired by John F. Sutter Jr. The city got a charter the next year, 1848. The Sutter father & son did not get along and the son set up the city. Sutter Sr. later became bankrupt. Sutter senior was the owner of Sutter's mill the first strike in the California gold rush.\nWilliam H. Warner was a 2'nd. lieutenant in the U.s Corps. of Topographical Engineers. He was killed July 1, 1850.\nWm T. Sherman was and lived in Ca. several times, (as early as 1847), but was not involved in the laying out of the streets of Sacramento.\nDan the Answers-Man\nAppreciate extra points & never refuse them.
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http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/lardner/chap13.html\n\nhttp://geothermal.marin.org/escrap.html#B4\n\nhttp://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/Chapter5.html\n\nI hope those help a little!  Good luck~
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everywere some of it might be around my neck!! the question is were is all the gold that the spanish conquistadors took from the aztecs? most of it is at teh bootom of the ocean were some ships sank. i dont know were or or how many ships sank, but just finding one will make you very wealthy
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Gold comes from the earth and is found in two major kinds of deposits. One of these is called a placer deposit, which is a name for an accumulation of gravel and sediment that has been deposited by a stream. The gold in these deposits actually originated in the other type of deposit, but was eroded away and carried to a place where the stream slowed enought that it could not  move the heavy gold. \n\nThe primary gold deposit is known as a lode or vein. These are thought to be deposited by circulating geothermal waters that move upward into the earth along cracks and fissures created by volcanic rocks that are also pushing upward. Another possible method of depostion may be that gold is coming from solutions that originate in igneous rocks that are cooling in the subsurface. \n\nSome of the largest deposits of gold are in very low concentration (<<1%)deposits of ore called porphyry deposits. These deposits often are mined primarily for copper, lead, zinc, or silver and gold is produced as a byproduct. However, the largest single source of gold in the US is the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah which has produced about 18 million troy ounces of gold. Most porphyry deposits are believed to have originated by migration of fluids from deep areas of volcanic activity.