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A 3 page summation and analysis of General John A. Sutter’s first-person account of the discovery of gold at his mill, which is the event that launched the California gold rush. Sutter relates what the event meant for him personally. No other sources cited.
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this discovery would seriously impede his chances of completing construction of his mill at Brighton, which had already cost him an investment of between 24 and 24,000 dollars. Therefore, he
asked his workers to keep the discovery a secret for six weeks so that the mill could be completed. However, despite his workers agreeing to this proposal, on his way
home, rather than being "happy and content," he was "very unhappy" because he could not see that this development would "benefit me much," as Sutter did not believe that the
secret could be kept for this long a period (Sutter). Sutter was right, as the secret came out about two weeks later, and, as soon as it did, his workers
began to leave him, "in small parties first, but then all left, from the clerk to the cook" with Sutters mill unfinished (Sutter). Soon everyone had gold fever. Sutter relates
that for sometime the people living to the south of him did not believe the news, and believed that Sutter himself had spread the rumor in order to generate "neighbors
in his wilderness"; however, soon he had "too many neighbors and some very bad ones among them" (Sutter). For the man who owned the property that started the gold fever
epidemic, the discovery meant only "great misfortune," as it ruined all is "hard, restless and industrious labors" and meant that he never incurred any benefit from his mill as even
the mill stones were stolen and sold (Sutter). As the entire workforce succumbed to the allure of gold, Sutters tannery, which had previously flourished, was deserted with a "large
quantity of leather...left unfinished in the vats" and raw hides became "valueless because they could not be sold" (Sutter). Even the Native Americans who had previously worked for Sutter abandoned
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