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James Marshall a carpenter found gold while building a sawmill for his business partner James Sutter. This began a big period of history.
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News was carried to Oregon. A ship captain told people the about gold findings. That brought people from Oregon to join the gold rush.
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About 4,000 prospectors were mining on Sutter’s property looking for gold. Not many people found gold at Sutters mill. Picture, en.wikipedia.org
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President James K. Polk officially announced that all the news reports were true, there was gold in California.
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estimates say that San Francisco grew from a population of about 800 people in 1848 to more than 35,000 in 1849!
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By 1850 about 1,000 have moved to California to wash clothes and make home cooked meals for the miners. Some women made 50 to 100 dollars a week!
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John Fargo and Henry Wells open a mailing service. It sent mail fast between San Fracisico and other U.S cities. It was called Wells Fargo. This helped prospecters send money to their families.
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California became a state because of all the people who moved there during the gold rush. This increased the population of people who moved there.
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Most of the gold on the surface was removed. Most people did not find much gold though. Big companies started to hydralic mineing,which damages the land.
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The Gold Rush ends and most prospectors and their families leave California and go back to their homes. The population lowers and the comotion dies down which leaves ghost towns.
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