Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...
And the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California after ... until said roads shall meet and connect... Sec. 11. That for three hundred miles of said road most mountainous and difficult ...
More than 1,500 laborers, at least 1,000 of whom were Chinese, under the direction of former Central Pacific Railroad worker ...