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The miners went west because they thought there would be more land, food and money. They thought there was going to be loads of gold to dig up which they would get lots of money for, but when they got there there was over crowding with all the other miners that thought there was going to be lots of gold and land too. There was no gold left that was worth anything, only little bit of gold but most days the miners would go home empty handed.

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