This left the colony with a huge debt and facing bankruptcy, the Governors of the colonies had to come up with solutions to solve this problem. One strategy to solve the problem was to unite the two colonies which eventually occurred in 1866. However this union did not solve their financial difficulties as the population continued to decline and the money problems continued. ... The discovery of gold in Caribou attracted thousands of Chinese to the area even though they faced racial discrimination just as they had earlier in the California Gold Rush. ...

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