Gold Rush Effects
Even so this cause a lot of shortages in jobs all across …show more content…
They also had environmental degradation issues in the mining region. The miners came together and had taken down most of the trees to build shelters and mining equipment. This made the soil, loosen up and it resulted in major erosion when rains came. In addition, as companies began to take over their increasingly would use pumps to blast away the earth to sift for gold. The remaining material would just be dumped in rivers and left to float downstream
Even though there were some negative aspects of the situation, there were some good for the Californians working in the gold mines and for the people who are living in that area or around San Francisco. A lot of jobs had start to flurries as of manufacturing, banking, entertainment, trading and other types of businesses. The population of San Fransisco had went from a little of 2500 to a big 15,000 in just about 6 months. Over 150,000 people arrived in San Francisco during 1949. Total number of people who migrated over the course of 3 years (1849-51) was almost