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	Gold Rush History
And Then They Came...


	Captain John A. Sutter had contracted the help of Mr. James W. Marshall who was a carpenter by trade, to build a saw mill on the American River. Captain Sutter had built a fort west of the mill site and needed the lumber that the mill would provide. It was Mid January in 1848 when Mr. Marshall was inspecting the tail race of the mill, and he noticed several small objects shining up from the stream bed. Upon closer examination, he considered that they might be gold but wasn't certain. After confirmation that he indeed had found gold. An attempt to keep the find a secret failed. Slowly at first they came, Migrant workers, soldiers from the forts, dock workers and tradesmen from Yerba Buena (now San Francisco).
	As news of the rich gravels in the hills of California spread, so too did the tales of "golden rivers", and "shining hillsides". It would be less than a year, and the mad rush would be in full swing.
	The first "public" notice of James Marshall's find was reported in the Yerba Buena (now known as San Francisco) newspaper on March 18, 1848 under the heading "GOLD MINE FOUND". The news reached New York by that summer when a soldier serving in California reported the find to the New York Herald. Within weeks, the Sierra Nevada's western foothills at Sutter's mill were swarming with eager prospectors, both young and old.
	California's riches were made public to the nation all at once with the recognition of the goldfields in a farewell address of President James K. Polk at the end of that year.
	"Gold is everywhere you look , sparkling in the sun and glittering in the streams. It lies on the open plain, in the shadows of deep ravines and it glows on the summit of the mountains." -According to National News During California's Gold Rush- The following year saw an estimated 90,000 aspiring Forty-niners make passage by various means to the goldfields of California. The overland journey usually took about six months.
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