Click here to read the passage to answer the question. Which detail from the text provides the best support for the claim that most "forty-niners" did not strike it rich in the gold rush?
"It didn't take long for miners to pan the easy gold out of the rivers and pick it out of the soil, though."
"Selling tough clothing, tents, food, and picks made the fortunes of many who never staked a claim or panned for gold."
"Reports claimed the miners were picking gold lumps as large as eggs out of riverbeds."
"One historian estimates that only one out of every twenty miners left their claims richer than when they arrived."