Central Pacific Railroad |
Mr. Crocker,
We talked to many people, and we found a group of hardworking men and women. Many came after gold was discovered in California in 1849. They were working in the fields around Sacramento. They've been turning swampland into good farmland. They are working in the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma counties. |
Chinese Market, San Francisco |
Chinese Joss House, San Francisco |
They were working making cigars, doing laundry, being shopkeepers, and doctors. One doctor, Yee Fung Cheung, worked in Fiddletown as a doctor. He even treated Governor Leland Stanford's wife, Jane, who was very sick in 1862. |
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