1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 368 Nevada

Most of the known gold deposits near San Francisco have been exploited.

There are some gold mines near Sacramento and in the mountain valleys of northern California.

However, the gold mines in Sacramento and areas north of Sacramento are owned, and many mining companies are enclosing thousands of acres in the northern mountains to find new gold veins.

Small gold mining teams have no chance at all in Sacramento. Only in Nevada, there is still a little chance of getting rich from gold.

"The Daily Californian" has a column dedicated to recording the stories of gold diggers who made their fortunes in California.

This is also the story that gold diggers like to read and hear the most.

Because the whole story can give them hope, almost all gold diggers are very sure that the next lucky person recorded in the newspaper must be themselves.

The train station in Reno has many gold diggers carrying their luggage, reading the chicken soup stories in the Daily Californian, and preparing to go to the depths of Nevada in search of gold.

Of course, there are also many failed gold diggers who have failed in gold mining, lost all their money, and are living on the streets, pouring cheap liquor into their mouths, not glancing at passers-by, but seeming to be looking for the target of a crime.

The Gold Rush was an important reason why California continued to attract immigrants.

Although the gold mining industry is the industry that Liang Yao least wants immigrants to engage in, there is no way, gold is more attractive than any other industry.

Liang Yao also needed a gimmick that was attractive enough to attract new immigrants to California.

These people are walking gold. As long as they come to California and spend money in California, these people can create value for California.

California Gold Rush California flower, I want to take it home.

Everyone comes to California with the ideal of getting rich overnight and returning home, but the number of people who can actually achieve it has become less and less after the bonus period of the gold rush has passed.

The gold digger's chicken soup story recorded in the Daily Californian is true.

But the protagonists of these stories are all carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of gold diggers.

It is still possible to find a few lucky ones among thousands of unfortunate people.

In fact, the trend of gold mining in California can also be seen from the stories of gold diggers who discovered gold mines and became rich published in the "California Daily".

In 1851, the Daily Californian reported mainly on the gold diggers in Sacramento, and almost every week someone lucky enough got to be in the newspaper.

In February 1852, the number of gold prospectors published in newspapers in Nevada exceeded that of Sacramento for the first time, and their proportion was getting larger and larger.

However, the frequency of reporting on gold digger success stories changed from weekly to two to three weeks.

If the gold rush fails, go to San Francisco or Sacramento to find a factory to work and get paid, and become a railroad worker for California Railroad or other railroad companies. If you want to farm, apply for a piece of agricultural land from the California government and become a grower.

This is where most gold diggers end up, but the Daily Californian almost never reports on these most common cases because gold diggers don't like it.

There are so many similar reports like this that the California Daily newspaper will be overthrown by gold diggers.

The staff of the "California Daily" are smart and know that gold diggers will buy their newspaper because they regard California's most authoritative daily newspaper as a spiritual opium to comfort themselves, not because of the quality of their articles.

Liang Yao is not opposed to this kind of spiritual opium. As long as they don't sell real opium in California, Liang Yao's tolerance is still very high.

"California is much colder than San Francisco."

As soon as he got off the train, Liang Yao felt the chill in Nevada. He took the beaver fur coat from Carnegie and handed it to him.

Although the western region of Nevada was given to California by the federal government as a concession and compensation to California in 1851, Liang Yao had never been to Neville before. This was the first time Liang Yao came to Nevada in his life.

Fremont took out 50 cents and gave it to the newsboy selling newspapers at the train station. The newsboy was so anxious that he was at a loss: "Sir, I can't change so much money. It's very dangerous to find someone to change change here. You have a small face value."

Some silver coins?”

"But this is already the smallest amount of money I have." Fremont laughed.

As he spoke, Fremont took another newspaper.

"Fifty cents buys you two newspapers, and the rest is your tip."

After the newsboy left, a well-dressed middle-aged man, with his eyes rolling around, looking at Fremont and Liang Yao up and down, came up to them, showed an unflattering smile, and spoke curry-flavored English.

"Sir, you are also coming to Reno to investigate gold mining. Let me tell you, you have come to the right place. The gold resources here are very rich.

You're lucky, I didn't want to share this secret with others, if I hadn't been short of start-up capital for gold mining."

"Boy, you are so brave. Did you lie to the speaker and the members of the assembly?"

Pinkerton couldn't help laughing and patted the middle-aged Indian man and said.

"The CIA is very interested in your investment. Tell me where this gold mine is. We, the CIA, have invested in this project."

Hearing the words Speaker and CIA, the Indian was at a loss for a moment and froze on the spot. After regaining consciousness, he ran away without looking back.

"The winter in Nevada is really cold. In two weeks, the mountains will probably be closed by heavy snow." Fremont handed the extra newspaper to Liang Yao.

"I still remember that when I was exploring the Pacific Railway route, I met two gold prospectors in the mountains. One of the two gold prospectors later discovered the California Star."

"Are you talking about Martin? This guy is now in charge of my gold mining company in Australia." Liang Yao said with a smile, "Umbrella Company has made a lot of gains in Australia, and I am considering letting Umbrella Company invest some land in Southeast Asia for planting.

garden."

"Do you still want to be a slave owner?" Fremont smiled, "What can attract you, a rich man, to plant?"

"Rubber, I asked people to bring some rubber seeds from South America. I have already sent people to transport these seeds to Pontianak in Southeast Asia for trial planting." Liang Yao said.

Humans discovered rubber very early, but it only took more than ten years for rubber to enter industrial application.

In 1839, the American Goodyear invented the rubber vulcanization method, which solved the problem of raw rubber becoming sticky and brittle, making rubber highly elastic and tough, and rubber truly entered the stage of industrial practicality.

The price of natural rubber has skyrocketed since then. It was not until the 1930s that Germany began mass production of synthetic rubber, and the status of natural rubber declined.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, Germany's chemical industry was absolutely monstrous in the world. Many chemical geniuses emerged, which contributed to the rise of German chemical giants.

The strength of the German chemical industry was also forced out. After the reunification of the German region, there were no more colonial carve-ups in the world.

Britain and France could easily grow the industrial raw materials they obtained in their colonies, but the Germans could only rack their brains in the laboratory to figure out whether they could synthesize raw materials with the same effect in other ways.

Rubber can be used to make shoes, tires, conveyor belts, etc. It has a wide range of applications. If you want to develop industry in California, rubber is a raw material that cannot be bypassed.

The origin of rubber is Brazil, and there are also rubber plantations in other South American countries and Africa.

Rubber in Southeast Asia spread in 1876 when the British botanist Henry Wickham stole 70,000 rubber seeds from the Amazon and planted them in plantations in Southeast Asia.

But now Liang Yao has stolen it for the British 20 years in advance.

There were few far-sighted politicians and governments in South America in the 19th century, so it was not too difficult to get some rubber seeds.

The rubber production in Southeast Asia is high, the quality is good, and the price is low. In the end, it even defeated the rubber industry in Brazil, the country of origin.

There is great potential for growing rubber in Southeast Asia.

"Pontianak? That Pontianak on the island of Borneo?" Fremont said after carefully thinking about this relatively unfamiliar place name in his mind.

"This is the territory of the Dutch East India Company. It wants to offend the Dutch by getting involved in Borneo Island."

"The Dutch East India Company is not the British East India Company, so what if I offend them?" Liang Yao said with a smile, "I can't offend the British East India Company, so can I not offend the Dutch East India Company? Besides, forcing

When Japan signed a treaty with the founding of the country, we in the United States offended the Dutch to death."

With the United States backing him, Liang Yao, the former sea coachman, really didn't give in to it.

The Netherlands is a great power, and the United States is also a great power. I can't afford to offend Great Britain in its heyday, so why can't I afford to offend the weakened Netherlands?

(End of chapter)