Sunday Stills, Metal "Gold"

California Sierra Nevada's saw hundreds of thousand of

pioneers arrive because of one word "Gold"

Mining camps became towns over night because of rumors of a

"Big Strike."

Places that have survived like Angles Camp, Nevada City and

others at are now just wide spots in the roads such as

LaPorte, Downyville, Organ House and American House

and those were tens of thousands lived Port Wine and St Louis,

that you'd be luck to fined a rock foundation,

now see only tourist and hopefuls.

At one time our towns had the second largest Chinese population

outside of China, second only to San Francisco.

The Chinese Temple, cemetery, and hundreds of miles of

rock walls and tunnels are all that remain.

Now relics like these old peaces of mining equipment stand as reminders.

"Trophies to those who survived and

Monuments for those who did not".