Chrysti The Wordsmith: Goldrush - 2

Greetings This is Christie the wordsmith from Montana State University in Bozeman in January of 1848 gold was discovered in the waters of the American River where a man named John Sutter was constructing a sawmill located just west of present day Sacramento Sutter's Mill was the epicenter of an enormous American gold rush luring countless hopeful prospectors to the mountains of California. Many gold seekers used metal mining pans in their search for the precious metal in which they separated the gold from the sand and gravel scooped from stream beds. A good yield was said to pan out well while a scoop full of nothing but gravel panned out poorly. Mark Twain in his eight hundred sixty six letters from Hawaii observed that a customary salutation among California prospectors was here's hoping your Durtal pan out day to day independent of its mining context to pan out means to yield a result to work out or even to succeed as in my plans for a vacation to Europe finally panned out this year. Another linguistic legacy from the

California Gold Fields is to strike it rich. Originally referring to finding or striking a particularly abundant seam of ore. Today even those who've never prospected for gold can still figuratively strike it rich when they experience sudden financial success. Ahead on the series a pair of words inspired by the California gold industry bedrock and levis. I'm Christie the wordsmith. Good day word numbers. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry sued web dot com.