Learn from our American forefathers - get rid of the Chinese!
http://truckeehistory.tripod.com/history6.htm
THE TROUT CREEK OUTRAGE
(By Guy H. Coates)
During the gold rush it had been estimated that 48,070 Chinese came to
California to work in the mines. As the diggings begun to decline, over
10, 000 Chinese laborers were recruited by the Central Pacific Railroad
for bringing the railroad over the Sierra.
Reports tell of Chinese workers being lowered in baskets two thousand
foot cliffs to set explosives. Many lost their lives in the blasting of
the granite. Following the completion of the railroad through the
Truckee basin in 1869, approximately 1,000 Chinese workers and their
families decided to make Truckee their home.
The experience of the Chinese in Truckee is merely a microcosm of the
attitudes that generally prevailed in the state. Violent prejudice
developed in the mid-1870s as a post Civil War depression hit the
nation. Up and down the Pacific Coast, the Chinese became the scapegoats
and were blamed for depriving white laborers of their jobs.
