To others, it's a common name.

After all, this is the eastern part of a valley, and it makes sense to name the lumber yard "East Valley".

However, the reason why Ma Whistle got this name is mainly because of the game he often played in later generations, Yamaguchiyama.

In retrospect, he still has a bit of a regret about this game. After all, his last life ended on a Monday night, or maybe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and he didn't make it until seven o'clock in the morning anyway.

And in Yamaguchiyama, he had exactly thirty-nine pieces of chicken leg sticks, and one was short of being perfect.

"Here, in addition to your salary, you will also receive a 'confidentiality allowance'." "To subsidize your efforts to keep the gold mine secrets." ”

You can't prostitute for nothing, this is a basic principle of his work.

If a leader asks employees to do extra work without paying the extra salary, it either means that the work is meaningless, or the profits go into someone else's pocket.

Both, in either case, is by no means a good phenomenon.

So all the time, for the clansmen, the horse whistle will pay extra salaries for extra value.

This will also spur him to be more rational in his work, and to assign less wasteful labor or problematic tasks.

The gold mines meant insane wealth, and prostitution, or sheer moral restraint, clearly did not allow the workers to keep secrets, at least far from reassuring them.

Therefore, the clansmen who work here will receive a high salary in the name of a secret subsidy.

"Of course, every right corresponds to an obligation." Ma Whistle said, "Since you have received a confidentiality subsidy, you must do a good job of secrecy, otherwise there will be additional punishments." ”

"Always be vigilant and keep each other watching...... Anyway, you have to keep it a secret, you know? ”

"Understood!" People shouted in response.

Ma Whistle nodded: "Alright, let's start building a lumber yard first, and choose a good place along this river." ”

The people divided into two groups and continued their investigation along the river, and finally chose a clearing near the river and decided to build a logging yard there.

And, of course, a place to live.

However, Ma Whistle did not plan to build a formal town here, after all, it was surrounded by dense forests, which was not suitable for long-term habitation.

The real place to build a new city is undoubtedly the future city of Sacramento, a few dozen kilometers to the southwest.

There's a better place, a little further afield to San Francisco.

Historically, the gold mine was in Sacramento, but the city that really sprung up was San Francisco, or San Francisco.

The reason for this is that San Francisco is close to the ocean and is very easily accessible.

When the news of the discovery broke, not only Americans, but gold prospectors from all over the world flocked to the site.

San Francisco was the preferred location for gold prospectors who came from afar by sea, which caused the city's population to explode and eventually become a major city second to none.

As for whether to build a city in San Francisco, Ma Whistle is still considering it for the time being.

San Francisco is good, but it is also high risk, and it 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 is bound to develop rapidly, and it is bound to pour in a large number of immigrants.

If San Francisco had continued to grow as it had been in its original history, it would not have been long before it became a large-scale city with a complex population that would have been difficult to control.

So for a short time, Ma Whistle will not go to San Francisco, at most it will be to build a new town in Sacramento.

After choosing a place, the 300-strong westward march settled here, set up tents, and went on the first hunt.

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

Coupled with the fish and shrimp in the river, it is more than enough for 300 people to sustain themselves.

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

Mainly lumberyards, then there were wooden houses, as well as fences.

The wall must also be repaired, firstly to guard against wild beasts, and secondly, to guard against outsiders.

At the same time as the building was being built, the gold mining began.

As the earliest metal mastered by mankind, it was not difficult to mine gold, and the Indians knew how to mine it.

But there are also those who don't know: "How are we going to mine gold, relying on metal detectors to pick it up in the water?" ”

"Of course not," replied the whistle, "so that we can only find larger pieces of gold, but that is only a few." The real amount of gold is the tiny grains of gold that lurk in the sand. ”

"So what should I do?" The questioner continued.

Someone said, "Of course it's panning for gold with a plate, don't you even know this?" ”

"Plate Gold Rush...... How? ”

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

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

Ma Whistle interrupted their conversation: "We don't pan for gold on plates, we use 'ore washing troughs'. ”

He didn't want to use this almost completely manual way of panning for gold, which was too inefficient.

According to his worst-case plan, even if the news leaks and lets the whites know about the existence of the gold mine, he will make a lot of money before the whites arrive in large numbers.

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

But he can't make too advanced machines, or he doesn't have the conditions.

So Ma Whistle decided to make a washing trough, and the material was made of wood all over the place.

"Ore washing tank, what is that?" The people, apparently ignorant of this, asked in confusion as the horse whistle pulled out the design sketch.

Ma Whistle explained: "A large tool used to pan for gold, in essence, on the same principle as the plate used in the previous panning for gold. ”

"Whether it's a shallow pan or a washing tank, at the end of the day, it's because gold is heavier than sediment."

"For a shallow plate, with this difference, as long as we shake it long enough, the gold will definitely separate from the rest of the material and sink to the very bottom of the plate."

"We can sift the sediment off with a plate, or we can use this wooden trough to sift the sediment out." The horse whistle pointed to the design drawings.

Nonsense thought for a moment: "Hmm...... But it doesn't seem to be shaking, and of course it could be that I misunderstood. ”

"Don't shake it," said the whistle, "just let the water flow through the trough." ”

"See these shallow planks spaced out in the trough? In the process of the impact of the water, the gold on the bottom will be blocked by the planks, and the sediment on the top will be carried away by the water. ”