History of California . CALIFORNIAS MINING HISTORY THE mining history of California virtually beganin the year 1849, although gold had beendiscovered before that time and had attractedthe attention of the whole world. During thesummer of that year, however, it is estimated that noless than fifty thousand people started overland forCalifornia and probably as many more left the seaportsof the eastern states for the same destination and withthe same object in view—to dig for gold. This rushcontinued for several years and resulted in the estab-lishment of camps, villages, towns and cities througho
History of California . CALIFORNIAS MINING HISTORY THE mining history of California virtually beganin the year 1849, although gold had beendiscovered before that time and had attractedthe attention of the whole world. During thesummer of that year, however, it is estimated that noless than fifty thousand people started overland forCalifornia and probably as many more left the seaportsof the eastern states for the same destination and withthe same object in view—to dig for gold. This rushcontinued for several years and resulted in the estab-lishment of camps, villages, towns and cities throughoutthe mining regions of the state, most of which are stillin existence, although in many the population is muchscantier and is devoted to other pursuits, as the diver-sified interests of the state gradually became knownand utilized. But it was the gold miners who settledCalifornia and brought about its early has well earned and deserves its title of theGolden State. Since 1849 and up to the end
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