Blue Tent had its own "Chinatown", located near the lime kiln about two miles south of the Yuba River. Over 500 Chinese workers, most of them miner, inhabited the community.Nuggets, ibid, quoting long-time resident Peter Arbogast, p. 18. However, these workers were eventually fired, due to pressure from white miners and the local community.The Morning Transcript on May 3, 1882 editorialized: "There will be trouble if the Blue Tent mining company does not cease giving employment to the small army of Chinamen working in its gold mines. We ask that company, how it can expect sympathy and financial aid from our people when it daily insults them by employing rice eaters in the place of white men? " Quoted in Greenland, ibid, pp. 244-5.
