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Presentation of Anson Burlingame and the attaches of the Chinese embassy to President Andrew Johnson (1868) Courtesy: N.Y. Public Library

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. . . . Roughly 100,000 emigrants would make the trip from China as steerage passengers, and the Central Pacific railroad would ultimately employ at the high mark 12,000 to 15,000 of those Chinese laborers. With those workers, the company could now envision a goal of 400 miles of track to be laid in 1868, fulfilling a promise that Charles Crocker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crocker had confidently made on New Year’s Day at the start of that year: that the Central Pacific could lay at least a mile per day”

The need for Chinese labor wasn’t the only landmark news impacting both Chin and the U.S in 1868. On March 31, 1868, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company steamer, the S.S Chinna brought almost 800 Chinese steerage passengers and China’s first ambassador to the U.S. -- an American named Anson Burlingame. ~ Page 8

www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-charles-crocker

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(Central_Pacific_Railroad)#:~:text=The%20Rise%20of%20the%20Big,Crocker%2C%20and%20Hopkins%22%20By%20W.F.

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