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John A. Sutter Sign The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo 190 Words1 Page Around the time Mexico and America signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, adding a million square miles of territory to the United States, John A. Sutter procured craftsman John Marshall to assemble a sawmill on the American River. On January 24, 1848, Marshall discovered some small, gleaming rocks. Marshall took them to Sutter, believing that the stones in question were gold. The stones passed test after test. They were real gold. The men attempted to keep it to themselves but the news spread quickly. Sam Brannan, a mercha...
Gold nugget. 1848. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California, launching the gold rush. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall was superintending the construction of a sawmill for Col. John Sutter on the South Fork of the American River at Coloma, California, when he saw something glittering in the water of the mill's tailrace. According to Sutter's diary, Marshall stooped down to pick it up and “found that it was a thin scale of what appeared to b...