How a merchant's announcement of gold discovery transformed a tiny port settlement into a booming metropolis, sparking one of history's greatest population explosions as fortune-seekers flooded the once-sleepy town.
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The people who made the most sustainable fortunes were the entrepreneurs who figured out how to serve the mining industry; it literally gave rise to the phrase 'during a Gold Rush, sell shovels.'
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