© Carleton E. Watkins Once they had proven their skills, Chinese immigrants came to comprise a high percentage of the Central Pacific’s work force, even after the completion of the first transcontinental line. In the 1870s Collis P. Huntington’s friend Carleton E. Watkins, who often worked on assignment for the Big Four, took this famous photograph of Chinese laborers filling in the 1,000-foot-long Secret Town trestle, sixty-two miles east of Sacramento. Courtesy of the Huntington Library. source : irwinator/124/EE4e/CH14.htm
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