Chapter 375: Nevada

All the known gold mines near San Francisco have been mined.

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

However, the gold mines in Sacramento and the area north of Sacramento are owned by owners. Many mining companies have set aside thousands of acres in the northern mountains to search for new gold veins.

Small gold prospecting teams have no chance in Sacramento at all. Only in Nevada can they get rich by relying on gold.

The California Daily has a column dedicated to recording the stories of gold prospectors who made a fortune in California.

This is also the story that gold prospectors like to read and listen to the most.

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

There are many gold prospectors at the train station in Reno who are carrying their luggage and reading the chicken soup stories in the California Daily, ready to rush to the depths of Nevada to find gold.

Of course, there are also many failed gold diggers who failed in gold mining, lost their fortunes, lived on the streets, poured cheap liquor into their mouths, and glanced at passers-by, as if looking for targets to commit crimes.

The gold rush is an important reason why California can continue to attract immigrants.

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

Liang Yao also needs a gimmick that is attractive enough to attract new immigrants to California.

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

California gold mining and California flowers, I want to take them home as soon as I leave.

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

The chicken soup stories of gold diggers recorded in the California Daily are all true.

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

It is still possible to find a few lucky people 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 found gold mines and became rich published in the California Daily.

In 1851, the California Daily reported mainly on gold diggers in Sacramento, and there were lucky ones who were reported in the newspaper almost every week.

In February 1852, the number of gold diggers in the Nevada region who were reported in the newspaper exceeded that of Sacramento for the first time, and the proportion was increasing.

However, the frequency of reporting successful cases of gold diggers changed from weekly to two to three weeks.

If the gold mining failed, they would go to San Francisco or Sacramento to find a factory to work and get a salary, become a railway worker of the California Railway Company or other railway companies, and those who wanted to farm would apply for a piece of agricultural land from the California government to become a grower.

This is the final destination of most gold diggers, but the California Daily almost never reports these most common cases because gold diggers don't like it.

If there are too many similar reports, the newspaper of the California Daily will be overturned by the gold diggers.

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The workers of the California Daily are very smart. They know that the gold diggers buy their newspapers because they regard the most authoritative daily newspaper in California as a spiritual opium to comfort themselves, not because of the quality of their articles.

Liang Yao does not oppose this kind of spiritual opium. As long as they do not 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 of Nevada and took the beaver fur coat handed over by Carnegie.

Although the western part 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 Nevada before. This was the first time Liang Yao had come 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 didn't know what to do: "Sir, I can't change so much money. It's very dangerous to ask someone to change change here. Do you have silver coins with smaller denominations?"

"But this is the smallest denomination I have." Fremont laughed.

As he said that, Fremont took another newspaper.

"50 cents for two newspapers, and the rest is your tip."

After the newsboy left, a middle-aged man dressed decently, with his eyes rolling around, looking up and down at Fremont and Liang Yao came up, showing a not very pleasant smile, and spoke in curry-flavored English.

"Sir, you are also here to investigate gold mining in Reno, right? I tell you, you have come to the right place. The gold resources here are very rich.

Lucky for you. I didn't want to share this secret with others, otherwise I was short of the start-up capital for gold mining."

"Boy, you are so bold that you even cheated the speaker and the congressmen?"

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

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

Hearing the words speaker, congressman and CIA, the Indian man was at a loss for a moment and stood there in a daze. After coming to his senses, he ran away without looking back.

"Nevada's winter is really cold. In two weeks, the mountains will be closed due to heavy snow." Fremont handed the extra newspaper in his hand to Liang Yao.

"I still remember that when I was exploring the Pacific Railway route, I met two gold diggers in the mountains. One of them 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 smiled, "Umbrella has made a lot of money in Australia. I am considering letting Umbrella buy some land in Southeast Asia to build plantations."

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

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

Humans discovered rubber very early, but it has only been more than a decade since rubber entered industrial application.

In 1839, American Goodyear invented the vulcanization method of rubber, which solved the problem of raw rubber becoming sticky and brittle, making rubber have higher elasticity and toughness, and rubber really entered the industrial practical stage.

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The price of natural rubber has been rising since then, until the 1930s, when Germany began to mass-produce synthetic rubber, and the status of natural rubber declined.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, Germany's chemical industry was absolutely a demon in the world, and many chemical geniuses emerged, creating the rise of German chemical giants.

The strength of German chemical industry was also forced out. After the unification of the German region, there were no colonies to divide the world.

Britain and France can easily obtain industrial raw materials planted in the colonies, and the Germans can only rack their brains in the laboratory to find ways to synthesize raw materials with the same effect in other ways.

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

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

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

But now Liang Yao has already stolen them 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.

Southeast Asia has high rubber production, good quality, and low prices, and finally even defeated the rubber industry in Brazil, its country of origin.

There is great potential for planting rubber in Southeast Asia.

"Pontianak? The Pontianak on the island of Borneo?" Fremont thought carefully about this relatively unfamiliar place name in his mind, and then said.

"This is the territory of the Dutch East India Company. If you get involved in Borneo Island, you will offend the Dutch."

"The Dutch East India Company is not the British East India Company. What if I offend them?" Liang Yao laughed, "I can't afford to offend the British East India Company, but can I not offend the Dutch East India Company? Besides, when we forced Japan to open up and sign the treaty, we Americans offended the Dutch to death."

With America backing him up, Liang Yao, the former coachman on the sea, really doesn't fear it.

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