1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 147 [Mine Washing Tank]

To others, it's an unusual name.

After all, this is the eastern part of a valley, so it is reasonable to name the logging camp "East Valley".

However, the reason why Ma Shao took this name is mainly because of the game he often played in later generations, Shankoushan.

For this game, in retrospect, he still has a little regret.After all, his last life ended on a Monday night, or it might be the early morning of Tuesday, anyway, he didn't last until seven o'clock in the morning.

In the world of Shankoushan, he had exactly 39 pieces of drum sticks, and he was only one short of consummation.

"Here, in addition to your salary, you will also receive a 'secrecy subsidy'." Ma Shao said, "to subsidize your efforts to keep the gold mine secret."

You can't go whoring for nothing (note: the author is not implying anything), this is a basic principle of his work.

If a leader asks employees to do extra work for which they are not paid, either the work is pointless or the profits go to someone else.

Both, in either case, are by no means a good sign.

So for a long time, for the clansmen, the horse sentry will pay extra salary for the extra value.

This can also spur him to be more rational at work, and to arrange less wasteful labor or assign problematic tasks.

Gold mines mean crazy wealth, white whoring or purely relying on moral constraints, obviously the workers cannot be kept secret, at least far from reassuring him.

Therefore, the clansmen working here will receive a high salary in the name of confidential subsidies.

"Of course, every right corresponds to an obligation." Ma Shao said again, "Since you receive the secrecy subsidy, you must do a good job of secrecy, otherwise there will be additional punishment, and it will be heavy, because this is Important property of the tribe."

"Be vigilant at all times and supervise each other... In short, you must keep it secret, understand?"

"Understood!" the people shouted.

Ma Shuo nodded: "Okay, let's start building the lumberyard first, and choose a good place along this river."

The people divided into two teams, continued to investigate along the river, and finally chose an open space by the river, and decided to build a logging camp here.

Of course, it is also a place of residence.

However, Mashao does not plan to build a formal town here, after all, it is surrounded by dense forests, which is not suitable for long-term living.

The place that is really suitable for building a new city is undoubtedly the future city of Sacramento, which is tens of kilometers to the southwest.

There is a better place, farther away in San Francisco.

In the original history, although the gold mine was in Sacramento, the city that really rose because of it was San Francisco, or San Francisco.

The reason is that San Francisco is close to the ocean and the transportation is very convenient.

When the news of the discovery of a gold mine spread, not only Americans, but gold prospectors from all over the world would flock to it.

The gold diggers who came from afar by sea, the preferred location is San Francisco, which caused the population of San Francisco to expand rapidly like an explosion.

In just a few years, San Francisco has grown into the largest city in the western United States and has remained one of the largest cities in the United States ever since.

But in building a city in San Francisco, Horse Whistle has no such idea yet.

Although San Francisco is good, it also has high risks and is easy to be targeted.

At the same time, it is not easy to control. After all, San Francisco's innate conditions determine that it will inevitably develop rapidly and will inevitably influx a large number of immigrants.

If San Francisco still develops as it did in the original history, it will not take long to become a large-scale city with a complex population, and it will be difficult to control it.

So in a short period of time, Horse Whistle will not go to San Francisco, at most it will build a new town in Sacramento.

After choosing a place, the westward team of 300 people stationed here, pitched tents, and conducted the first hunting.

As a forest, the conditions here are quite good, not only the scenery is pleasant, the air is fresh, but also there are many wild animals, such as hares, pheasants, wild deer and so on.

Coupled with the fish and shrimp in the river, it is more than enough to support [-] people.

After setting up the tents, people began to use local materials to build buildings.

Mainly lumbermills, then log cabins, and fences.

The fence must also be repaired, one is to guard against wild animals, and the other is to guard against outsiders, at least to block people's gold digging work.

And while the building was being built, the work of mining gold also began.

As one of the earliest metals obtained by humans, gold is not difficult to mine, and the Indians also know how to mine it.

But some people don't know: "How do we mine gold, relying on metal detectors to pick it up in the water?"

Horse whistle: "No, this way we can only find larger pieces of gold, but that's only a small number. The real gold is the tiny gold particles hidden in the sand."

"Then what should we do?" The questioner continued to ask.

Someone said: "Of course you pan for gold with a plate, don't you even know that?"

"Dish panning for gold... how to do it?"

The nonsense next to him activated his skill again, and blurted out: "It's very simple - take its gold and remove its silt."

After hearing this, the questioner thought for a moment, frowned and said, "I seem to understand, but I don't seem to understand..."

The horse whistle interrupted their conversation: "We don't pan for gold with plates, but with 'washing tanks'."

He didn't want to use that kind of gold panning method that was almost completely manual, because the efficiency was too low.

According to his worst plan, even if the news is leaked and the white people know the existence of the gold mine, he will make a fortune before the white people arrive in large numbers.

To achieve this, it is obviously impossible to rely on pure manual gold panning.

But he can't make a machine that is too advanced, or he doesn't have the conditions.

So Ma Shao decided to make a relatively simple large-scale ore washing tank, and the materials used were the wood that is everywhere here.

"Ore washing tank, what is that?" People obviously didn't know anything about it, and they asked in confusion when the horse sentry took out the design sketch.

Ma Shao explained: "A large tool used for panning for gold, in essence, the principle is the same as the plate used for panning for gold in the past."

"Whether it's a plate or a trough, it all boils down to the fact that gold is heavier than sand."

"For the plate, using this difference, as long as we shake it long enough, the gold will definitely separate from other substances and sink to the very bottom of the plate."

"We can use a plate to sift out the sand, or we can use this kind of wooden trough to sift out the sand." Ma Whistle pointed to the design drawings.

Nonsense thought for a while: "Hmm...but it doesn't seem to be able to shake. Of course, I may have misunderstood it."

The horse whistle said: "You don't need to shake it, just let the water flow through the wooden trough."

"Did you see these shallow wooden boards distributed at intervals in the wooden tank? During the repeated impact of the water flow, the gold at the bottom will be blocked by the wooden boards, and most of the silt at the top will flow away with the water."

(End of this chapter)