Every state in the US has nicknames. New York is Empire State. New Jersey is Garden State. California is Golden State. His nickname comes from the California Gold Rush in American history. The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when a carpenter and sawmill operator, James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in California. This discovery caused more than three hundred thousand people inside and outside the United States of America to rush to Northern California. He established California’s nickname as Golden State. Because the number of miners arriving in California peaked in 1849, all the miners were called “Forty-Niners.” It later became the name of the San Francisco soccer team.

It takes about three hours by car to visit the original California Gold Rush area. Interstate 580 East, Interstate 205 East, Interstate 5 North, Route 99, and Route 88 can be used to get to Sutter Creek. Just before driving to the mining area, the visitor can rest in the center of Sutter Creek. The California Gold Rush created the movement of people to the West Coast and formed a period of the Wild West. Downtown Sutter Creek bears the guise of gunmen days.

Fifteen minute drive takes you to the Gold Mines entrance. The mine is now for tourist purposes only. They are no longer digging for gold. There are no flashy signs or Vegas-style neon signs. However, since it is an original entry, the visitor must respect it as a testimony of history. The door shows “Mine Tour”, but the entrance is small and old. The visitor must be careful not to miss the entrance to the parking lot, as there are no direction signs that the driver can refer to.

The tour offers visitors a trolley ride to the deep area of ​​the mine. The inside of mine is lit, but some parts are dark and almost dark. There is a brightly lit area and wax figures showing the days when the minors were working. Upon entering the cave, the first thing you will see is a bird in a cage. Now in the Tour Mine, the person and the bird are imitation of wax figures. It shows that they kept a bird to know when gas is spreading in the mine. The poor bird is the first to die to warn the minors that there is a danger of gas.

Although the minors inside are wax dolls, they display real tools and hardware. Many of them look heavy and uncomfortable. Inside the gold mine you can see a complicated structure. A visitor finds a deep, straight well after a long, gentle incline that continues for a distance. It shows that they did not have a specific excavation plan. They dug in the way the gold vein led the miners.

One guide says the authority estimates that there are still two hundred million ounces of gold underground. Now the visitor must answer the last question of the tour guide if he expects to be a minor.