Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-16
FIRST LICK OF The PILE.DRlvER
An Excursion Party to Witness the Driving
Of the First Bent Of the Kew Wharf at
South Santa Monica Incidents.

The band wagon Of the Messrs.
Ferguson q Rose was filled, at an
early hour yesterday morning,
by a number OF gentlemen who
had been invited to go down to
South Santa Monica ami see the
fret pile driven In the new wharf
at that place. The party COM
prised the Messrs. Ivar A. Weld,
the President, o. F. Kimble, the
Secretary and l.. Lichtenberger,
the Treasurer, OF the South Santa
Monica Wharf Company, Mr.. 9. G.
Lips, Postmaster Dunkelberger,
Mr.. 4. German, Judge Gibbs, sew.
eral persons unknown to US, and
several members Of the press, in
Guiding a representative of the
HERALD.
GALA SIGHT.
A spanking four-horse team took
the excursionists through the or
ange groves, which align the city
to the north and west, ut an exhil.
Grating pace. 1t was pleasant to
note the magnitude upon which
farming opera tions towards
Santa Monica have been con-
Quoted this year, and to OBJ.
serve, upon every hand, infaIlible
indications of prosperous farming
community. Wheat and barley
almost without limit, and baled
hay to u surfeit, met ones gaze on
every hand. The latter was being
loaded on the cars for shipment to
Arizona, pursuant TO orders of the
Msssrs. f. German & Co. As one
approached the Half Way House
the sugar beet fields Of Mr.. Nadeau
cleaned In emerald brightness to
the right, well off towards the
foothills. In fact, u pleasing sight
are these foothills, with their vivid
green patches, speaking of early
tomatoes. potatoes and other gar
den "truck," all of which finds
a ready aud remunerative market
in San Francisco. The beet expert
ment is comparatively new one,
embracing about eight hundred
acres, but 1t is certain to expand
rapidly, as the lucrative character
Of the enterprise, which acknowl.
edges the joint sponsorship Of Prof.
Gennert and Mr.. Nadeau,is already
conceded by discerning people.
THROUGH THE BALLoNA
We shot at racing pace, Observ-
ant of the prolific wheat and barley
fields, and OF the deep hues of the
healthy and growing corn. Gold
and green every where struggled for
the mastery-a battle between the
matured and the growing crops.
No one can to-day take trip to
Santa MoHca without being satis-
fed that every inch between our
city and the "City by the Sea"
will shortly be blossoming like the
rose. All that lie needed 10 a prop.
or appreciation Of the rich possi-
bilities there plainly uufolded. 1t
is worthy Of remark, just here, that
the distance from Los Angeles to
Santa Monica, by the Ballona
school house, is considerably less
than fifteen miles. Indeed, we
were informed, by reliable persons,
that it is only fourteen and half.
Arriving at South Santa Monica,
the warehouse OF the company at
tracted our attention by its size and
completeness. 1t was finished at
an early day, rs an earnest OF the
sincerity Of the company. 1t is
amply capable of storing twenty
five or thirty thousand sacks Of
grain. But OF course
THE REAL INTEREST
Conferred upon the platform on
which the pile-drlvsr, weighing
27O0 pounds, was suspended. No
hair of Damocles, but several sub.
stautial blocks Of wood. kept 1t
from . premature aud dsstruetlve
'lfall. The engine was pafane ~
hrsvest; and, within dve uluutes
! 81 our arrival, the slg was n com !.
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