1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 145 [Gold Mine]

In order to avoid the rain, everyone in the westward team set up a simple tent on a rocky high ground, and watched the rain falling outside under the cover of cowhide.

The rain gradually died down.

Ma Shuo stayed in the tent, seemed to remember something, took his metal detector, and made some modifications.

In fact, some extra cowhide is added for waterproofing.

"Great chief, what is this?" Looking at the metal detector in the horse whistle's hand, Nonsense asked nonsense.

Horse Whistle: "This is a metal detector."

"Metal detector, what is it for?"

"...detecting metal."

"Really?" Nonsense blinked, looking in disbelief.

The horse whistle pondered: "Of course it's true, but it's not very easy to use. I'm improving it."

As he spoke, he swiped a metal detector in front of him, then took out a gold coin and put it over, and scanned it again, indicating that the speed of the fan changed accordingly.

In 1847, electricity was a foreign existence to most people in the world.

The electricity in people's eyes at this time is probably like the quantum in people's eyes 80 years later, which basically only exists in various high-tech news.

Of course, there can also be scams.

"This...what's going on here?" Nonsense As an Indian, and he hasn't learned much physics from the horse post, it's naturally rare and strange.

Du Wang smiled and said, "This is electromagnetic induction."

"Electricity... electromagnetic induction, what do you mean?" The nonsense was barely understood, and he was confused.

"If you have the opportunity to enter the advanced mathematics and science class in the future, you will be able to understand these concepts." Du Wang couldn't help laughing and teasing, "If you don't enter the advanced mathematics and science class in the future, you probably won't be able to understand it, but you can't say for sure. "

"Hahaha!" Several people nearby laughed, "Dutan, you don't learn well."

"Come and let Nonsense show you one." A soldier took out a piece of jerky, "Non-nonsense, do you think this is beef jerky or venison jerky?"

"Maybe it's beef jerky, too..." The nonsense blurted out, and then he realized something, so he didn't continue.

The crowd burst into laughter.

At this time, the horse whistle handed the metal detector to Du Tiao: "Du Tiao, let this one go to you first, you can use it to explore the surroundings when you are free, maybe you can find something good."

He has demonstrated and briefly explained metal detectors to some students in class, and Dutiao is one of them.

So when Du Tiao took the metal detector from the horse whistle, he looked like an excited student about to take an experimental class.

The rain stopped and the sky gradually cleared up.

"Let's go on," said the horse whistle.

The westward team packed up and continued on the road, heading west to California.

Along the way, Horse Whistle let some people play metal detectors in turn.People are very interested in this novelty and interesting gadget, and everyone will keep exploring after getting it.

Although the gold mine has not yet been discovered, it is not all fruitless.

While passing through a desert, someone found several bodies with a metal detector.

These corpses were buried in the sand that was not deep, and metal objects such as coins on their bodies caused the detectors to respond.

Obviously, they were white people who died accidentally during the westward march, and their identities were unknown, so the ownerless property naturally belonged to the westward marching team of the horse sentry.

Going west is obviously not an easy task, and these corpses are a proof.

Fortunately, Ma Shao and the others were fully prepared, and they did not experience any major setbacks. The only attrition was caused by the Rattlesnake.

After more than two months of trekking, the horse sentry's westward team finally approached its destination, the city of Sacramento in the northeast region of California.

To be precise, it is Upper California, and Baja California is still in Mexico.

In addition, there is no city of Sacramento, only the Sacramento River.

However, based on this river, combined with the previous life's knowledge of the California gold rush, the horse sentry can confirm the approximate location of Sacramento on the map.

As for the location where the gold mine was discovered, he still remembers a few key words: under the Sierra Nevada, sawmills, rivers.

Since it is under the Sierra Nevada, it is naturally east of Sacramento.

Since it was a gold mine discovered during the construction of a sawmill, there should be dense forests nearby, plus rivers...

Horse Whistle pointed to an area northeast of Sacramento on the map, and asked, "Is there a forest near this river?"

"Yes, there is a large forest near Coloma." Nonsense said.

Ma Shuo nodded, and then asked: "Is there anyone here who lives or does activities?
Bullshit: "Mostly Maidu, Miwok...and Whites from Fort Sutter."

"Fort Sutter?"

"The place established by John Sutter, he is a cunning and cruel fellow!" Nonsense continued, "Many people have been deceived and even enslaved by him."

The horse whistle pondered for a moment, then pointed to the map: "Let's go here to investigate."

The place he was pointing at was the Coloma area that he talked about nonsense.

He can basically confirm that Coloma is the location of the gold mine that ignited the climax of the westward movement.

If not, it shouldn't be too far off.

The gold mine is close at hand!
"...In the Maidu language, Koloma means 'beautiful', and the name of this valley flowed by the Roundhouse River is actually 'Beautiful Valley'." Nonsense introduced for Mashao.

Looking at the surrounding scene, Ma Shao couldn't help nodding: "The scenery is really beautiful."

Coloma is rich in water and soil, and there is a lush forest growing. The clear and unpolluted river flows through the valley, making the nearby woodland resound with the sound of water.

The scenery is pleasant and the air is very fresh.

"This place seems to be very suitable for building a lumber mill. If we settle nearby, we must use the wood from this forest," said Ma Shao.

Afterwards, the people shuttled through the woodland, passing a shallow water area of ​​the river after a while, and people waded through the water one after another.

Just as everyone was crossing the river, a soldier who was shaking a metal detector in his hand suddenly made a surprised voice: "Hey, the detector has responded!"

Most people didn't care much about this. After all, along the way, the detectors responded more than once, and people picked up a lot of scrap metal and a few coins.

But the horse whistle is almost always watching the metal detector, after all, this is his primary target.

"Is there anything in the river?" He asked, seemingly casually, but in fact he was quite expectant and nervous.

The soldier with the metal detector leaned over and shook the detector again.

The coil of the detector is now wrapped in cowhide and can be directly put into water for detection.

The soldier looked at the change of the indicator fan, then reached out to fish in the water, and then, under the sunlight shining through the shade of the tree, he fished out a golden thing...

(End of this chapter)