The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.
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More than 300,000 immigrants
Multiple events sparked the movement of US citizens West. First and foremost was the Gold Rush of American history. The second was Federal Legislation that promoted travel West in exchange for monetary goods and land. And finally, the general American spirit of pioneering and travel.
The boom began with the discovery of gold in 1848.
Sutter's Mill
John Sutter
The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.
Some people think he was born in 1825. He emigrated from China and lived in California.
1848 John Marshal found gold flakes in the traces of the saw mill at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, CA. It is located above Sacramento and Sutter knew the moment he heard about the discovery that it would cause a rush to the area. He tried to keep it quite, but failed and in the process lost everything. Within 2 years CA became a state because of the amount of people in the state. On Sept. 9, 1850 CA became a state.
The Australian goldfields became home to many people from China and parts of Great Britain, especially Ireland. Some cultures were very much under-represented. Germans and Italians, for example, were not particularly interested in the lure of the goldfirleds.
Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 - May 14, 1889) was an American settler, businessman, and journalist, who founded the "California Star" newspaper in San Francisco, California. He is considered the first publicist of the California Gold Rush and was its first millionaire.
Brannan was a colorful, energetic figure in the mid-19th century history of California and especially of San Francisco.
"He probably did more for [San Francisco] and for other places than was effected by the combined efforts of scores of better men; and indeed, in many respects he was not a bad man, being as a rule straightforward as well as shrewd in his dealings, as famous for his acts of charity and open-handed liberality as for in enterprise, giving also frequent proofs of personal bravery." [1]
Contents[hide]After the murder of church leader Joseph Smith, Jr., in June 1844, the Latter Day Saints decided to relocate their center from Nauvoo, Illinois. Several possible destinations were discussed, including the Mexican territory of Alta California. In February 1846, with the approval of church leaders, Brannan and about 240 other Latter Day Saints from New York set sail aboard the ship Brooklyn for upper California via Cape Horn. Brannan had an antiquated printing press and a complete flour mill on board. After a stop in Honolulu, they landed on July 31, 1846 at the Mexican port town of Yerba Buena, present day San Francisco, tripling the population of the pueblo. Brannan was appointed as the first mission president of the California LDS Mission.
California careerBrannan used his press to establish the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. It was the second paper in Alta California, following "The Californian" founded in Monterey and first published on August 15, 1846 [2]. The two joined to become The Daily Alta California in 1848. He also established the first school in San Francisco. In 1847, he opened a store at Sutter's Fort, near present day Sacramento.In June 1847, Brannan traveled overland to Green River, Wyoming, to meet with Brigham Young, the head of the LDS Church, who was leading the first contingent of Mormon pioneers across the plains to the Great Basin region. Brannan urged Young to bring the Mormon pioneers to California but Young rejected the proposal in favor of settling in what is today Utah, and Brannan returned to northern California.
California Gold RushEarly in 1848, employees of John Sutter paid for goods in his store with gold they had found at Sutter's Mill, near Coloma, California. Brannan went to the mill and, as a representative of the LDS Church, he received the tithes of the LDS workers there from the gold they had found in their spare time. Brannan then purchased every shovel in San Francisco[citation needed] and ran through the streets yelling, "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" His "California Star" paper couldn't publish the news as the staff had already left for the gold fields. Samuel Brannan's store at Sutter's Fort
San FranciscoBrannan had opened more stores to sell goods to the miners (his Sutter Fort store sold US$150,000 a month in 1849), and began buying land in San Francisco. At about this time, Brannan was accused[who?] of diverting church money, including collected tithes, to fund his private ventures. An LDS envoy was sent to Brannan and reportedly[who?] told them, "You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord.", although historians, such as Will Bagley have found this is likely just legend.[citation needed] Brannan was elected to the first town council of San Francisco in the new U.S. territory. After a series of sensational crimes in the area, he helped organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, which functioned as a de facto police force. A squatter was murdered by the vigilante group and, although Brannan may not have pulled the trigger, he was considered the instigator and was subsequently disfellowshipped from the LDS Church for the vigilante violence.
In 1851, Brannan visited Hawaii, and purchased large amounts of land in Honolulu. In 1853 Samuel Brannan was elected as a Senator to the California State Senate in the new state's capital of Sacramento. He was involved in developing trade with China and financial agreements with Mexico, founding the Society of California Pioneers, and developing banks, railroads and telegraph companies in California. Brannan built the first incarnation of the famous Cliff House, in 1858 on the Pacific Ocean in undeveloped western San Francisco.
CalistogaAfter Brannan visited the hot springs in the upper Napa Valley in 1859, Brannan planned a new resort for there. He bought land containing the springs in the northern portion of the Rancho Carne Humana, and founded the town of Calistoga, said to be a combination of the words 'California' and then fashionable 'Saratoga' Springs in New York. Brannan also founded the Napa Valley Railroad Company there in 1864 in order to provide tourists with an easier way to reach Calistoga from the San Francisco Bay ferry boats that docked in the lower Napa Valley--San Francisco Bay at Vallejo. The railroad was later sold at a foreclosure sale, in Napa County in 1869.
In 1868 Brannan became one of the principle investors in the Robinson Trust, that purchased and initiated development of the major coastal Los Angeles County land holdings of Californio Abel Stearns, near the San Pedro Bay in Southern California.
In 1872 Anna Eliza Corwin divorced Brannan. He lost much of his personal fortune after his divorce, as it was ruled that his wife was entitled to half of their holdings, payable in cash. Because the vast majority of Brannan's holdings were in real estate, he had to liquidate the properties to pay the full divorce settlement.
Southern CaliforniaFollowing the divorce, he became a brewer, then developed a problem with alcohol. Forsaking the city he helped develop into San Francisco, he drifted to San Diego, remarried and set up a small ranch near the Mexican border, where he engaged in land speculation with the Mexican government in the state of Sonora, Mexico. In 1888, at the age of sixty-nine, he was paid the sum of forty-nine thousand dollars in interest from the government of Mexico. He quit drinking, paid all his debts, and died without leaving enough money to pay his own funeral.
Samuel Brannan died at the age of 70 in Escondido, California, on May 14, 1889. He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California.[3]
The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.
They were treated with great respect, as: Early on, before many white women were in that area. The men would raid a village and kill all men, children, and ugly women - kidnapping the young women to be kept as whores / sex slaves or sometimes not killing those men or ugly women, instead using them as slave labor (A favorite tactic of the Catholic Church, see link below) and indiscriminately raping the young women. Later on different organizers would prepare hunting parties who would travel on trains shooting them (the Native people) with large bore rifles from the comfort of the train. Once the Natives figured this out, and stayed away from trains, they would organize horse parties that flushed them out (by shooting them) to the trains, where they would be shot. This practice was ended when the US Army "Indiscriminately massacred every Indian they saw" (quoting the News Print).
It didn't matter if it was true or not. Once the first newspaper published the headline that gold was found the rush was on. People dream about getting rich without a lot of work, but getting gold is a lot more work than most think it is.
western Californians and the Mexicans