What did the Chinese do when they finished working on the Transcontinental Railroad?
“With the completion of the Central Pacific, many Chinese workers moved to other railroad construction jobs, including some for the Central Pacific. Others returned with their savings to their families in Canton. Others still sent to China for wives and settled in various western communities as laundrymen and restaurateurs. The majority who remained, however, returned to the Pacific Coast.” Some continued building railroads, for example, the line from northern to southern California via the San Joaquin Valley. Others became miners or worked in a variety of service trades. Many Chinese were employed by the CPRR at Rocklin’s roundhouse, and approximately 1,000 built water courses and stone fences at the Whitney Ranch near Rocklin. “In December 1869, the Central Pacific launched the construction of a line down the San Joaquin Valley. By 1872 the railhead had reached Goshen. Subsequently, construction of the section from Goshen on south to Los Angeles was turned over to the Southern Pacifi
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