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.
Peck, Reinventing Free Labor, 51.
Connecticut Post, Oct. 6, 1883, Scrapbook of Notices of the Northern Pacific Railroad Excursion, Aug. 29 - Sept. 3, 1883, box 51, 159, Villard Papers.
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.
John G. Cooke to C. H. Prescott, Feb. 25, 1886, enclosure with Callaway to Adams, March 9, 1886, UP, SG2, ser. 1, box 34, f. 1: Callaway.