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California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Message Discussing Sending 10 "Chinamen" To Help Open the

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:180.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Message Discussing Sending 10  Chinamen  To Help Open the
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California, 1867. Issued message on California State Telegraph Company header, Discusses the sending of 10 "Chinamen" in order to "open the road to the Summit in 10 days." "If you will furnish that number, I will furnish the same number at the Company's expense, Send twenty (20) and the Company will pay half the expense, Answer at once". Red text with black handwriting. Fine-VF condition with toning. Chinese workers were extremely important for the building of railroads, roads and construction in the west. Chinese miners tended to live in groups and work claims the Americans had abandoned. Initially, Americans found the newcomers peculiar and would visit Chinese camps for amusement. Then, in 1852, a year of serious crop failure in southern China, 20,026 Chinese flooded the San Francisco customs house. The previous year only 2,716 had arrived. By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the population of the four counties that constituted the Southern Mines.