The Life of a Miner

The day in the life of a miner was usually very hot, cold, and boring. They usually didn’t find very much gold. A newspaper reporter from New York said that he thought that, within four years, 1,000 million dollars of gold would be found. Turns out that not many people found gold. The temperatures got up to over 100 F, and the water was frigid. The reason they knew that the water was frigid is because the miners stood in it all day long. The miners mined in the American River. They panned for gold, They held their pans in the water, took them out, and swished the pans around to get the gold because the gold would settle at the bottom.