Essay On Search For Gold

Imagine yourself in a frigid mine. You’re isolated, and all that were to surround you was darkness. Only your mind, and the puffs of air could attempt to comfort your poor self. Words repeat; “Keep looking, keep looking.” Though, no matter wherever you seek, there was no shimmer of gold anywhere. You dropped your pickaxe towards the ground, which made a loud pound, and slowly, you fall to your knees, your hands falling to your side, weakly. Was it really worth it to go on a search for gold? To leave your family behind because of your own greed? You promised to find gold for them, but really, your plan was to find gold for yourself, and run with it. Again, was it worth it? Before you could think any further, you fall face first into the rock

To add on, The History Cat says, “The trek through the great plains was monotonous and dangerous… The biggest killers were starvation and dysentery from drinking polluted water.” Clearly, when mining in the Gold Rush times, it’s difficult to find food down in those caves, and the water was polluted. During the Gold Rush period, we weren’t as advanced as we are now, for we had to go search for gold, and we didn’t have better ways of finding clean water. Secondly, challenges being faced will be financial problems during the California Gold Rush (for miners.) Barbara Maranzani says that during the California Gold rush, silly enough, the merchants made more money than the miners. Merchants were the ones that made the equipment for mining, which mingers desperately bought because they’re the ones on the search for gold. Miners spent more money on getting equipment, than spending more time searching for gold. In addition, “there was no guarantee of success (in finding gold)...” Says an unknown user. This meaning, if you cannot find the gold, then you’re getting poorer each second, because instead of using your time for working, you’re using your time for finding gold, which were rare to