The boomtown merchants only because and i quote" they could charge whatever they wanted for the food and other essential items because there were no other nearby stores that sold these products" this is also what made levi stauss so rich (levi's jean's)
The merchants were the ones who grew rich. The suppliers of the equipment and other goods used by the miners. They were often paid with the gold.
The profits from the arms sales were used to fund the Nicaraguan Contra Rebels.
Nicaragua.
The Comstock Lode was a huge discovery made in 1859. It is estimated that $50 million dollars in silver was taken out of the Comstock Lode.
This is just a guess, but during the gold rush they were cooks and diggers. Cooks: They would cook a lot of Chinese food that all the gold diggers loved which they would of made bundles of money and gold. Diggers: they would just dig for gold and hope for the best. But in most cases they would be discriminated against any attacked for their race.
The merchants were the ones who grew rich. The suppliers of the equipment and other goods used by the miners. They were often paid with the gold.
The Speculators
bankers
tobacco.
The Virginia colony made huge profits as a result of tobacco sales to Europe.
Virginia
Virginia.
u tell me
a plantation
probably ,the juicer-mixer-grinder production industries would have made huge profits
The profits from the arms sales were used to fund the Nicaraguan Contra Rebels.
The profits of many major corporations during the war increased with the good they made or sent for the war effort. There were also major scientific developments made to help support the war effort.