Professor Xiao-huang Yin has written about the Chinese-language press in the United States, and provides a translation of an excerpt from the publisher's announcement on the front page of Kim Shan Jit San Luk:

The mission of a newspaper is to help merchants and salesmen to exchange ideas and serve as a channel to connect people with the government. San Francisco now has become a metropolis and major business center with California a gathering place for people from all over the world. Men of every nationality here have their own newspapers except us Chinese. This is why, despite our large numbers, we have little control of the market. We have been ill informed and exploited by others in purchase and sales. In dealing with American government officials, we are often misled, cheated, and bullied. As we live thousands of miles away from home and make a living in a difficult environment, we feel sad and frustrated with such a situation. For this reason, we have decided to set up a newspaper, published on every Wednesday and Saturday, to record and report daily news about market information, government announcements, and local events regarding Chinese and foreigners.

[From Xiao-huang Yin, "Between the Local and the Global: Characteristics of the Chinese-Language Press in America," American Periodicals: A Journal of History and Criticism, Volume 19, No. 1, 2009, pp. 49-65, The Ohio State University Press, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/261050/pdf.]