Because he didn’t want to go back home to his family and the others
Money goes in a bank
...had not been able to agree on whether to allow slavery in New Mexico Territories and New Mexico...
Hope this helps :)
Plantations
The flat land was good for farming and so the landowners built very large farms called plantations. The crops that were grown were called cash crops because they were harvested for the specific purpose of selling to others.
So they can get alot of cash and spend it all on gold mining stuff. www.goldrush.com