/tags/gold gold en-US Copyright Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:42:09 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-02-12/stories-of-southern-oregon-gold-rush-modern-style Maybe a third of a million people came to California for the gold rush of 1849, and easily thousands more have come to the West since. Many of them had… Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:42:09 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-02-12/stories-of-southern-oregon-gold-rush-modern-style Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich, Maureen Flanagan Battistella /show/as-it-was/2016-06-01/chinese-miners-turn-discarded-clay-tailings-into-gold An 1857 Oregon law taxed each Chinese miner $2 a month for the privilege of mining in the state. Some counties even made it illegal for Chinese to hold or… Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2016-06-01/chinese-miners-turn-discarded-clay-tailings-into-gold Lynda Demsher