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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.
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For Great Chinee Company, see P. J. O'Brien to Powderly, Nov. 4, 1885, Powderly Papers, r. 1.
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