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The discovery of gold in Eldorado County hastened the development of California and imparted to its history special interest and romance.- "Not the united States alone, but the whole world caught the gold-fever, and a huge polyglot population descended upon California.” |Men from every walk of life abandoned their pursuits to stake out claims in the diggings. Merchants left their goods; farmers, their plows; sailors, their ships; lawyers, their books; and even preachers, their Bibles.