Dwindling prospects of finding gold, amid other factors, caused the Chinese population of Weaverville to shrink from 2,500 in its heyday to a mere 16 persons by 1931.
隨著金礦的漸被淘盡，曾經擁有二千五百華人的威化委鎮，由於謀生不易和其他種種因素，到一九三一年時，只剩下十六名華人。