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Excerpt from Chinese Immigration: The Social, Moral, and Political Effect of Chinese Immigration; Testimony Taken Before a Committee of the Senate of the State of California, Appointed April 3d, 1876
A. - There is a good trade with Shanghai On the Yang tse kiang River there IS a line of steamers owned by Americans, 11 here the1 must ha1e, I should think, fifteen, perhaps not as large as the largest river steamers in America, but larger than any we have here; larger than the steamer Capital. The freight-carrying capacity of those steamers is between two thousand five hundred and three thou sand tons, besides a large passenger capacity.
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