The Central Pacific Railroad, chartered in 1861 by California's "Big Four" merchants (Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker), built the western portion of America's first transcontinental railroad. Construction began in Sacramento on January 8, 1863, and progressed eastward through the formidable Sierra Nevada mountains. The company recruited thousands of Chinese laborers from Canton Province who ultimately comprised 80 percent of the workforce by 1868—approximate

猶他州考古學家搵到橫貫大陸的鐵路中國工人屋 First Chinese house for transcontinental railroad workers discovered in Utah (Erin Cox reports in Cantonese) English version: bit.ly/3p7xfVf | FOX 13 News