OROVILLE DAY BOOK LISTING – CHINATOWN 1904

This listing was a copy of a hand written/transcribed ledger whose provenance remains unclear. It’s day book title is puzzling as well.

Day books would normally appear as an accounting tool keeping track of money coming in and out of a business per customer (or not) for a period of time.  Seems to be a listing by name, sex  and age for people living in the area around Safford and Broderick in Oroville the old Chinatown neighborhood. Groupings of names of four females together, four white names, suggest prostitutionub that dwelling. We, however do not know if the people were connected and lived in a single dwelling. Other entries names suggest spouses living in one dwelling. There are two groupings  that refer to the name of just “Chinaman”. These men might have been reported living in that dwelling by someone else but did not know names. Some of the information was hard to read, a question mark “?” was placed behind those names or words that were hard to decipher.

Name	Age	Sex
Roberts, Dan	26	Male
Arlington, Lola	28	Female
Smith, Ida	24	Female
Maxwell, Florence	23	Female
Shappard, Hattie	28	Female
Jones, Harry	21	Male
Freeman, Gladys	21	Female
Melbourn, Malele	27	Female
Owens, Anna	27	Female
Hoyt, Edith	27	Female
Tang Lee	60	Male
Tang Lee Mrs.	25	Female
Rasir	43	Male
Rasir Sing	37	Female
Rasir Mrs.	21	Female
Wang Tong Chong	55	Male
Wang Tan	18	Male
Wung Gu Up ?	20	Male
Miner Jake ?	52	Male
Hap Sing	33	Male
Taw	63	Male
Foo Charlie	31	Male
Foo Mrs. Charlie	21	Female
Foo Teneper ?	1	Male
Foo	8	Female ?
Foo James	32	Male
Foo Joseph	25	Male
Foo Tuck Shum	75	Male
Foo Choen Moy ?	30	Male
Tao Mrs. Gweg Cute ?	20	Female
Tao Mr. Gung Gule ?	41	Male
Hung Shing	50	Male
Jge ?	56	Male
Nang Hoy	58	Male
Fao Kim	50	Male
Chinaman Sue Sing	50	Male
Chinaman Woo Luck	60	Male
Chinaman Hop Sing	44	Male
Kim Lee	45	Male
Kim Lu	62	Male
Hi Lay	64	Male
Auk Sin	50	Male
Wah	42	Male
King	54	Male
Ah Toy	44	Male
Gu An Fun ?	44	Male
Yip Gay	70	Male
Tan Jaya ?	45	Male
Eseo	47	Male
Ge Pong	48	Male
Qeuang Leon	40	Male
We Ong	50	Male
Lim Om	52	Male
Aha Sin	60	Male
Ah Look ?	63	Male
Bu Hon	53	Male
Mu Wang	50	Male
Me Wu ?	62	Male
Tong	40	Male
Bow ? Hing	50	Male
Ta Soon	60	Male
Hock Tong	61	Male
Wona Auk ?	42	Male
Bing	57	Male
Wang Fang	69	Male
Tow	49	Male
Taun Hup ?	58	Male
Ah Tang	60	Male
Lem Wang	61	Male
Kiny ?	60	Male
Coy ?	50	Male
Yu Fang	65	Male
Chuw Lee	55	Male
E Show	40	Male
Ong Eng ?	50	Male
Aha Win ?	44	Male
Ah Wen	50	Male
Ing Qu ?	40	Male
Shun Tin	74	Male
Shun Tin Mrs.	33	Female
Le Haw	54	Male
Hu Low ?	37	Male
E Yap	53	Male
Qung Chang	50	Male
Tai Sing	48	Male
Kim Wah	42	Male
Ah Wu	42	Male
Quong Eng	50	Male
Bwos ? To	62	Male
Lu Ling	41	Male
En Sing	49	Male
Mrs. Yung	19	Male (not female)
Sing Ging Mrs.	42	Female
Wan Sung	65	Male
Sing	46	Male
Wan Gu	70	Male
Wan Gu Mrs.	43	Male (not female)
High Chun	25	Male
High Mrs.	22	Female
High Belin ?	2	Male
High Barlin ? Girl	5	Female
High Chun	21	Male
High Chew Miss	20	Female
High Chew Miss	18	Female
Gong	55	Male
Hong Joe	49	Male
On	40	Male
Jing	40	Male
Jang	35	Male
Wang Ling	65	Male
Lun	42	Male
Gu Wing	45	Male
High Shing	52	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Jarn	63	Male
Le Coot ?	62	Male
Le Sin	60	Male
Hup Su	50	Male
Ah King	42	Male
Lu Bun	65	Male
Me Sing	40	Male
Tauw	67	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman – Ga Hung	60	Male
Chinaman – Hung	45	Male
Chinaman – Bing	50	Male
Dong	69	Male
Le Toy	60	Male
Kim Mu ?	59	Female
Ching Kim	50	Female
High Yun	50	Female
Wang Guy ?	44	Female
Wang Foo	65	Male
In Sing ?	44	Male
En Tong ?	59	Male
Euin ?	62	Male
Ah May	50	Male
Tow	43	Male
Qun ?	50	Male
Nu Kinon ?	62	Male
Ling	40	Male
Dan	50	Male
Euen ?	60	Male
Sing	50	Male
Yu Yups ?	40	Female
Yow	60	Male
Hi Lee	50	Male
Lau Sing	40	Male
Ah Tay	50	Male
Qum ?	45	Male
Quang	65	Male
Gung	52	Male
Ah Yow	46	Male
Ah Bing	72	Male
Ah May	60	Male
Ah Ying	55	Male
Am Qeuoy	44	Male
Ah Wan	63	Male
Sing	54	Male
Woo Git ?	38	Male
Kee Sin ?	42	Male
Wong Yut ?	42	Male
Wing Lee	67	Male
Tun Loon ?	54	Male
Kui Moy	38	Male
Sim ?	50	Male
Wing	63	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
Chinaman	—	Male
King Lee ?	60	Male
Wha Hi	24	Male
Gu Kim ?	40	Male
Charlie	43	Male
Ying	52	Male
Sing To	60	Male
San Cun ?	67	Male
Chin	40	Male
Gee Wat	55	Male
To My	38	Male
Aha Yip	42	Male
Bing	60	Male

Ten non-Chinese names, two men and eight women, were listed for the Oroville Chinatown in 1904. The adult females, non-Chinese, had the ages of 21 (one), 23 (one), 24 (one), 27 (two), 28 (two) and 29 (one).  The two adult non-Chinese men were listed with the ages of 26 and 21.  

For the Chinese population there were listed four children, two boys and two girls, fifteen adult females and 165 adult males.  The ages for the Chinese boys were one and two and for the girls they were eight and five.  The adult Chinese women had the ages of 18 (one), 20 (two), 21 (two), 22 (one), 25 (one), 33 (one), 37 (one), 40 (one), 42 (one), 44 (one), 50 (two), and 59 (one).  Seven of the Chinese women were listed as “Mrs.” two were listed as “Miss” and the other six just have their names listed.  The adult Chinese men had ages that range from as young as 18  (one) and as old as 75 years (one). Most of the men are in their  in the forties (46 of them), fifties (41 of them) or sixties (40 of them).  Seven of the adult men were under thirty years old, nine were in their thirties, five were in their seventies and seventeen did not have ages listed for them.  See Table One. 

Table One – Ages of Adult Chinese Population in 1904

Age – under 30

18 (one), 19 (one), 20 (one), 21 (one), 24 (one), 25 (two) = Total 7

Age – 30 to 39

30 (one), 31 (one), 32 (one), 33 (one), 35 (one), 37 (one), 38 (three) = Total 9

Age – 40 to 49

40 (eleven), 41 (two), 42 (ten), 43 (four), 44 (six), 45 (five), 46 (two), 47 (one), 

48 (two), 49 (three) = Total 46

Age – 50 to 59

50 (twenty one), 52 (four), 53 (two), 54 (four), 44 (five), 56 (one), 57 (one), 58

 (two), 59 (one) = Total 41

Age – 60 to 69

60 (sixteen), 61 (two), 62 (six), 63 (six), 64 (one), 65 (four), 67 (three), 68 (one),

69 (one) = Total 40

Age – 70 to 79

70 (two), 72 (one), 74 (one), 75 (one) = Total 5

No Age Listed

(seventeen) = Total 17