Hotels flourished during Gold Rush period // February 18, 1996. Посетен на 21 May 2021. It was in von Pfister’s hotel that the first word of the discovery of gold was leaked. Charley Bennett, Sutter’s courier, stopped in at the bar on his way to Monterey with news of the gold strike. After a few drinks, he let the cat out of the bag, telling one and all about the gold “in them thar hills.”
