Graniteville an Important Wild West Town: Bibliography on Graniteville During the Gold Rush There is a story that says “two Miners were able to get 17,000 dollars worth of gold in only 7 days” (PBS). In the 1800’s Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which Created a surge of people want to come in the search for the gold filled quartz veins. Graniteville stands as a notable example of the Wild West. “Gold was discovered in Sacramento in 1848”(PBS). Graniteville, also known as the Eureka South, because there was already a Post office that was in California called Eureka (Wikipedia). Graniteville was first Placer Mined during the gold rush. “Placer mining was the mining or a stream bed, it could
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There was a sudden flood of people, making it crowded around the mines, everyone wanted a share of the gold. The men there were worked very hard, they had to cope with moving when the gold they found was mined out, causing them move from mine to mine “The conditions were rough and the weather could spell disaster for the mining camps, the roads would turn into mud making it hard to bring in a wagon of supplies or anything on horseback. The men in the mining camps hygiene was not up to par, they stopped shaving and bathing was done frequently (Paddison). There could be as many as six-hundred people in Graniteville in the spring, but only about 200 or less in the summer. If the summer was a very dry, you'd find as few as 20 or 30 miners there.” As all of the water dried up, it became harder and harder for the miners to work, so they would move away for the summer and come back when the water started flowing again (Don …show more content…
The quartz veins were mined down to 500 feet (Western Mining History). The New Almaden quicksilver mine goes down to six-hundred feet and is one hundred-fifteen degrees. (Chest of Books) Graniteville is underlain by Slate Schist, and Phyllite. “Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation” (WikiPedia). There are also several glacial moraines, a glacial moraine is a accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves. (Glacier Landforms). The miners started out with a simple pan, and there greed led them to want more so
There was a sudden flood of people, making it crowded around the mines, everyone wanted a share of the gold. The men there were worked very hard, they had to cope with moving when the gold they found was mined out, causing them move from mine to mine “The conditions were rough and the weather could spell disaster for the mining camps, the roads would turn into mud making it hard to bring in a wagon of supplies or anything on horseback. The men in the mining camps hygiene was not up to par, they stopped shaving and bathing was done frequently (Paddison). There could be as many as six-hundred people in Graniteville in the spring, but only about 200 or less in the summer. If the summer was a very dry, you'd find as few as 20 or 30 miners there.” As all of the water dried up, it became harder and harder for the miners to work, so they would move away for the summer and come back when the water started flowing again (Don …show more content…
The quartz veins were mined down to 500 feet (Western Mining History). The New Almaden quicksilver mine goes down to six-hundred feet and is one hundred-fifteen degrees. (Chest of Books) Graniteville is underlain by Slate Schist, and Phyllite. “Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation” (WikiPedia). There are also several glacial moraines, a glacial moraine is a accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves. (Glacier Landforms). The miners started out with a simple pan, and there greed led them to want more so