From California's Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast by Samuel M. Otterstrom

Author:Samuel M. Otterstrom [Otterstrom, Samuel M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY), Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Science, Earth Sciences, Geography
ISBN: 9780874174694
Google: giuVDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2017-05-01T00:27:52+00:00

On the other hand, the mining towns moved from significant instability to notable stability. These towns were very unstable during the mining peak, with only 7.4 percent of children’s parents born within 40.2 kilometers of the respective towns in 1850, explained by the fact that very few settlers lived in the area before 1850. This number increased only slightly over the next two decades (hovering around 10 percent), as thousands of miners flooded in from around the world. However, from 1880 to 1900, the mining town CSI values increased considerably from 0.181 in 1880 to 0.513 in 1900. For example, two bigger Sierra foothill communities of Grass Valley and Auburn had stable CSI values in 1900, 0.667 and 0.587, respectively. Thus, one can give a general estimate of 1890–1900 as the point when these communities made the overall transition from unstable resource extraction centers to stable communities. Additionally, the mining cities were more stable than the larger cities by 1900, while the RCM shows that in both the commercial and mining cities a significant number of parents had moved less than 80.5 kilometers between their birthplace and the birthplace of their children.

Ravenstein argued that most moves are short distance. In terms of generational migration in California in the late 1800s, a high proportion of parents did not move far from their place of birth to where their children were born (table 7.4). The numbers generally increased through the time period: in 1900, 37 percent and 26.4 percent of mining town and commercial city parents, respectively, had been born within 80.5 km. The second generation RCM also reveals that many grandparents had been born near the birthplaces of their future grandchildren, which means that multiple families came to stay in the midst of the gold rush. This fact sometimes gets lost in discussions about the frenzied pace of migrant transience.

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