{"id":26003,"date":"2019-05-25T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26003"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:56:32","slug":"gold-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/gold-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! How Miners Protected It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/goldthief.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From California&#8217;s gold rush to today, San Francisco has always been a thriving center of commerce and trade. It is no surprise that in April 2019 Supervisor Vallie Brown (5th District) announced that Amazon&#8217;s cashless Go stores in the city will begin accepting cash for purchases. Brown previously introduced an anti-cashless store law which didn&#8217;t apply to Amazon locations, but she expanded the proposal in March. That&#8217;s good news for those who like to pay with cash &#8212; though the 49ers who found and carried their treasures with them faced formidable foes who wanted to steal their gold.<\/p>\n<h2>SOCKING IT AWAY<br \/>\nHow 49ers Protected Their Gold<\/h2>\n<p>by: Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!<\/p>\n<p>Price of many a crime untold,<br \/>\nHow, oh how, can I protect my gold?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protecting hard-earned gold was a growing concern for miners in the 1850s. After thousands of immigrants descended upon the Sierra in a frantic search for riches, there was a dramatic increase in robberies, violence and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Prospectors sought safe ways to protect and transport their gold. Being armed with a gun and knife didn&#8217;t necessarily &#8220;cut it&#8221; when it came to securing valuables. You could not even be near your &#8220;wealth&#8221; all the time, so Forty-Niners tried creative ways to hide their loot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/gold-thefts.html\">Read the story&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From California&#8217;s gold rush to today, San Francisco has always been a thriving center of commerce and trade. It is no surprise that in April 2019 Supervisor Vallie Brown (5th District) announced that Amazon&#8217;s cashless Go stores in the city will begin accepting cash for purchases. Brown previously introduced an anti-cashless store law which didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26004,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions\/26004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}