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引发19世纪世界性黄金潮的加利福尼亚黄金热起自一次偶然的发现。1848年1月,詹母斯·W.马歇尔,一个来自新泽西、想到加利福尼亚这块刚刚从墨西哥侵略来的新国土上发家致富的车轮匠,开始在今加利福尼亚首府萨克拉门托东北64公里的亚美利加河南岸科洛马建造锯木厂。与马歇尔联手创业的是一个瑞士商业冒险家约翰·A.萨特,此人在新海尔维第(现已成为加州首府一部)有自己的庄园。11月23日,马歇尔的锯木厂已接近完工,但引水推动水轮的渠有点浅,于是打开了水门,想让水流把渠冲刷得深一点。第二天早
The California gold, which sparked the golden tide of the 19th century, has been hot by accident. In January 1848, Jenkins W. Marshall, a New Jersey-born wheelwright who came to New Hampshire and thought of a California country that had just made his fortune from the aggression in Mexico, started his career in the Asian-American Henan Province, 64 kilometers northeast of the present-day capital of Sacramento, California, Shore Coloma built sawmill. Joining Marshall is a Swiss business adventurer, John A. Satt, who owns his own estate in New Hervey (now part of the state capital). On November 23, Marshall’s sawmill was nearing completion, but the water diversion led to a slightly shallow canal, thus opening the water gate and letting the water run deeper into the channel. The next morning