C. Good choice, you are partially correct. Some miners did wash their own clothes. One miner wrote, "I resolved to try my hand at washing for the first time in my life. It was no trouble to throw our clothes into the pond, and rubbing in soap was not much; but when it came to standing bent over half a day, rubbing the clothes in our hands, trying to get out the stains-- heigho! 'a change came o'er the spirit of our dreams,' and we thought of our wives and sweethearts at home... I verily believe our clothes looked worse for the washing than they did before we began, and my poor knuckles-- oh! they were sore for a month afterwards."