Edited sentence: Gold mining contiued there until 1849, when the Mexican miners were lured away by the California Golf Rush.Gold mining in Arizona reportedly began in 1774 when Spanish priest Manuel Lopez directed Papago Indians to wash gold from gravel on the flanks of the Quijotoa Mountains, Pima County.Mountain man Pauline Weaver discovered placer gold on the east side of the Colorado River in 1862.Other gold mining under Spanish and Mexican rule took place in the Oro Blanco district of Santa Cruz County, and the Arivaca distrct, Pima County.Weaver's discovery started a gold rush to the now ghost town of La Paz, Arizona