ailroad, as the railroad recruiters defended the hiring of the Chinese on the basis of the harsh desert climate of Arizona, in which no American worker could be expected to labor. Chinese workers received daily wages of only one dollar in comparison to wages of non-Asian workers, which were double what the Chinese were paid (www.ailf.com). Even though Chinese workers were treated much worse, racism against the Chinese was intense among regular white and Mexican workers who never came to understand what they saw as the strangeness of the Chinese workers. As competition for jobs increased, animosity towards Chinese workers at railroad camps intensified.
             Many other Chinese immigrants found work building the Central Pacific Railroad. The railroad company figured they need approximately five thousand workers, but the most they ever had just using white workers was eight hundred. In fact, the demand for workers was so large that the Central Pacific Company had hired eleven
             thousand Chinese workers by the time that transcontinental railroa
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