#gold-rush-era

#gold-rush-era

Thompson, an Ohio-born research scientist, was hailed as a hero after finding the S.S. Central America and its thousands of pounds of sunken treasure that sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for more than 150 years. But in the decades that followed, he battled with investors who accused him of cheating them out of millions and then spent years on the run as a fugitive before being sent to prison.

But after decades of outsourcing tungsten production, the federal government has now begun restricting imports. United States Tungsten founders Stacy Hastie and Randy Waterfield saw this coming. They're reviving what was once America's largest tungsten mine, the Tungsten Queen. It's a site holding an estimated 1 million tons of tungsten with an in-ground value approaching $450 million, the company says. And it says it is already in talks with the U.S. Government.

After a mine cave-in revealed a rich vein of ore Bodie, California became a thriving town during the years of the California gold rush. It quickly exploded in size and at its pinnacle was home to around had around 2,000 structures and a population of 8,000 people. It went bust in 1881 and what buildings remain standing represents about 10% of its original structures.

Author Jules Verne briefly mentioned the tiny railroad town tucked into the Sierra Nevada foothills in his classic "Around the World in 80 Days." The plot takes protagonists Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and bored Londoner, and his French sidekick, Passepartout, on a whirlwind global journey at the height of the Industrial Age. "The train, on leaving Sacramento, and passing the junction, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada," Verne wrote in 1872 of the Transcontinental Railroad leg of the journey.

During the Great Depression, the New Deal put millions of Americans to work building parks, schools, bridges, housing, murals, and civic spaces that continue to serve the public nearly a century later. KALW and Living New Dealinvite you to an evening exploring the lasting imprints of this ambitious era here in the Bay Area. Through film screenings and a community conversation led by Sheryl Kaskowitz, creator of The Public Works,

With the price of a single ounce of gold now currently hovering around $4,700 (right around its all-time high), the question of course is whether it's too late for investors to dive in. I'm of the view that this momentum rally is probably warranted. That's in part due to the underlying fundamentals of gold and its overall market capitalization relative to stocks (which is still low, despite its recent rally).

One hundred years after Charlie Chaplin made dinner rolls dance and ate his shoe like it was a fine meal, The Gold Rush has been vividly brought back to life in a new restoration that premiered Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival. On the opening day of its 78th edition, Cannes debuted a 4K restoration of The Gold Rush, one of Chaplin's most beloved silent masterpieces.

Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody - the gang of American frontiersmen is all here in The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West. The valuable new volume is by historian Paul Andrew Hutton, an award-winning author, documentary writer, and a Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. Hutton's 565-page history, a New York Times bestseller published last year by Dutton, covers the American frontier from the mid-18th century to 1900.

In 2025, the 10 highest paid state employees in the Golden State were executives at the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System. They made a combined income of $15 million.

California's booming economy is one of the world's largest, but a peek behind the curtain exposes the forbidding reality of a statewide job market that is ranked as one of the nation's worst. There's no sugarcoating the situation in California. Our economic growth is weak compared to other states, said Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.