Bromley to Adams, Oct. 4, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, Labor Disputes, Oct. 1885.
After the massacre there were 547 Chinese and 85 whites as the company concentrated all of its Chinese employees in Wyoming at Rock Springs for protection.
D. O. Clark to Bromley, Oct. 28, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, Labor Disputes, Oct. 1885.
Saxton, Indispensable Enemy, 157-97.
Cal Ewing to Powderly, Nov. 5, 1885, W. W. Stone to Powderly, Dec. 24, 1885, Powderly Papers, r. 11.
Boycotting of Chinese laundries had spread to Wichita by 1886.
A. Dudley Gardner and Verla R. Flores, Forgotten Frontier: A History of Wyoming Coal Mining (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989), 19-22.
On water, Adams to Callaway, April 26, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 33, ser. 2, r. 28.
The best account of western coal mining is Andrews.
David A. Wolff, Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 (Boulder: Univ. of Colorado Press, 2003), 5-6, 21-22.