Testimony of J. H. Strobridge, Aug. 9, 1887, PRC, 6:3107, corrected, 3139-40.
Chew, Nameless Builders, 42-45, says that the maximum number of Chinese workers in the peak month was 5,190.
Berton, The Impossible Railway, 373-77.
Testimony of Andrew Onderdonk, Oct. 30, 1884, Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration, Report and Evidence (Ottawa: Printed by Order of the Commission, 1885), 148.
Yen, "Chinese Workers," 36.
Adams to J. W. Corbin and others, Dec. 18, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 30, ser. 2, r. 26.
Daniel Lewis, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951 (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2007), 95.
Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration, ix, xi-xxxiii, lxxxi-lxxxiii, lxxxvi-xcv.
"An Address to the People of the United States upon the Evils of Chinese Immigration," Special Committee on Chinese Immigrations Report, 8-9, 10, 17-28, 37, 53.
Special Committee on Chinese Immigration's Report, 25-27, 29.
For examples of selectivity, see Testimony of F. F. Low, April 11, 1876, 69-79, and Testimony of Otis Gibson, April 12, 1876, 90-100, and compare to the "Address" and "Memorial" above.
Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor, 213.