Anonymous ID: fe87ff April 10, 2020, 9 p.m. No.8755014   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Vanderbilt business during gold rush years: "The following year, he formed a company to transport passengers and goods from New York City and New Orleans to San Francisco via Nicaragua. With the enormous demand for passage to the West Coast brought about by the 1849 gold rush, Vanderbilt’s Accessory Transit Company proved a huge success. He quit the business only after his competitors—whom he had nearly ruined—agreed to pay him $40,000 (later it rose to $56,000) a month to abandon his operation."

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cornelius-Vanderbilt-1794-1877