Chinese laborers reclaim tule swamps in the Sacramento delta, construct roads, rock wall, and reservoirs in Northern and Central portions of the state. Targeting Chinese, San Francisco's Cubic Air Ordinance requires 500 sq. She became the most popular and successful courtesan in San Francisco who set up her own brothel of Chinese women. Her English language skills and her understanding and employment of the American judicial system set her apart as a most unusual Chinese woman. Ah Toy used the court system to win legal battles and defend herself and her flourishing practice.
Chinese cemetery is established on Fort Moore Hill.
Chinese miners in eastern Washington outnumbered white miners nearly two to one. Nineteen Chinese were massacred in Los Angeles in 1871. October 24 marked the worst incident of Anti-Chinese violence in America up to that time.