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Visit the IIIF page to learn more. View manifest View in Mirador. Description This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in at Sutter's Mill in California, launching the gold rush. James Marshall was superintending the construction of a sawmill for Col. The answer is a lot. Geological estimates and reports have done when mining was still a major local industry say you can bet on it.
There were significant amounts of gold removed from the beds and banks of regional waterways. The prospectors and miners quickly learned that much of the resources were either high and dry above the current water level. There are to this day mining claims and thousands of amateur prospectors. Many of them are supplementing their income or even prospecting as a livelihood.
Doing something people have done in the Sierra Nevada Foothills for one hundred and sixty-eight years now. Elsewhere for thousands of years. Digging money right out of the ground. In the United States as a citizen, you are still allowed to locate a valuable mineral on open public ground.
Stake a claim to it and develop that resource. Though he tried to keep it a secret, the word spread quickly and triggered the California Gold Rush of Its population soon swelled to many thousands. He was one of the very first ranchos in the great Central Valley of California. Like so many American pioneers, Marshall had been gradually moving west with the frontier. After coming west on the Oregon Trail, he found Oregon too rainy and continued south into California.
Marshall was a man handy with tools, and he quickly made himself very useful with his wood and ironworking skills. John Sutter and James Marshall formed a partnership to build a sawmill. Sutter would supply laborers and materials, and Marshall supplied his skills as a millwright.
They would share equally in the lumber produced. They began construction in the fall of By January the mill was half done.
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