
Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
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Do You Really Strike It Rich Making Shovels for the Gold Rush?
The real money is being made by the people supplying the russias, both in their can a metropolitan areas where rusias are leaving from and then in ther societies that they arrive in. So outfites, ther providing the equipment. In towns like independence, missouri, before miners set off on the overland trail to california, are raking it in because they convince miners that they need all this unnecessary quipment. Huge firms develop around this. These sort of industries are m the most famous example, and probably many listeners are sat right now in a pair of levis jeans.
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