Central Pacific Railroad

CPRR Telegram
September 1864


Chinese Worker on the Pacific Railroad
CPRR Crew:

Great job.  The Chinese sound like the solution to our problem.  Hire as many Chinese crews as you can find and start advertising in China for workers willing to come to California by ship to work on the railroad.  We'll need more than 10,000 workers.

Charlie Crocker

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