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The California legislature enacted the foreign Miner tax which levied a monthly 20$ tax on each miner foreign.

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The California Gold Rush left California today vastly populated and almost empty of reachable gold. The Gold Rush had pulled in about $81 million dollars yet left the region destroyed.

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The gold rush ends

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California becomes a state

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By the end of 1848, many men and migrants moved west in hopes of getting rich.

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President Polk confirms discovery  December 5, 1848

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1848
Later that day Brannan shouts out about the discovery

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On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in the American River near Sacramento.