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California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Telegram Message about "Ill Chinaman"

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:70.00 USD Estimated At:140.00 - 280.00 USD
California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Telegram Message about  Ill Chinaman
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California and Eugene City and Portland, Oregon, 1867. Issued telegram message on California State Telegraph Company header, Discusses the "Chinaman" that "came through from the south" and was ill for two (2) days. VF condition with light toning on edges. 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.