Thousands upon thousands of citizens began traveling and settling west hoping to strike gold in the effect to become rich. However not everyone that moved west was looking for gold, some opened up shops for miners that sold picks, tools, jeans, and canteens. The population from 1848 to 1850 went from 1,000 to 25,000. The borders for the city of San Francisco were expanded because of so many citizens. In fact there was so many citizens were in California that it was able to become the 31st in 1850. San Francisco had the title of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River until it was lost to Los Angeles in 1920(Open Collections Program). On the other hand not all effects were