Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-03
VISIT TO SAN PEDRO.
The Board Of Supervisors Inspect the New
Wharf - The Railroad Improvements -
Progress Of the Work-Tho Brsakwatsr.

Progress Of the Work-Tho Brsakwatsr.
AT 9:45 o'clock yesterday morn
ing special train of one passenger
car and loo omotive left the ole
depot for Wilmington. The pas
sengers were Supervisors Prayer
Harmon, Rogers, Egan and Coun,
ty Clerk Potts, representing the
county; Superintendent Hewitt
Judge Underhill and A. Glassell
Esq, representing the s. p. r. r.
Co., and several invited guests
Among the latter were Judge Alex.
aDder, of Yuma, Messrs. D. B.
Woolff, A. w. Ryan. T. E. Rowan,
G. e. Miles. t. w. Stackpole and
John r. Briefly. In about an hour
the party reached Wilmington
where the steamer Los Angeles,
Admiral Banning's flagship, com.
manded by Captain Chris Jsrgs.
torff, was waiting with steam up,
ready to sail to the front at San
Pedro.
About two and a half miles
down the channel we were landed
on the new wharf of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, In
front of Fayal. To this poi Mt the
grading and trestle work for the
railroad extension has been COM
pleted, and is ready for the track
layers. The latter are now at
work at Wilmington and will have
the track laid to the wharf within
two weeks.
At the wharf all Is hustle and
activity, the work of from seventy
five to one hundred men showing
that the wharf, like the "old ark,
Is moving, moving along" Three
pile-drivers are at work and as
they advance the force of carpen-
ters follow with the huge timbers
for the frame work and the plank
Ing for a wharf forty feet wide,
which will extend along the chan
mel for 2U00 to 5000 feet, with thir-
teen to twenty feet of water on the
outer eide at low tide.
The distance from Wilmington
to the end of the grade, which is
near the residence of Capt. A. w.
Timms, is l5,705 feet and to the
head of the wharf, 1914 feet, the
difference heing somewhat greater
than the proposed length of wharf,
as the Railroad Company intend to
run track on the mainland par
allel with the wharf and connect
ing with it at each end. From the
main land at Wilmington to
Boschke's Island there is over 1000
feet of track ON trestle work, on
piles. In all, including the wharf,
there will probably be over two
miles of track running over the
waters of Wilmington Bay.
While the passengers were ex-
amining the whay' and improve
ments, Capt. Jar Vorff went to the
outer bay ar brought in two
lighters, one ioaded with timbers
for the wharf, the other with It's
tons of coal for the s., p,
r. r. Co. Some of the party
walked down to the home
of Capt. Tlmms and greeted that
old San Pedro pioneer, who, after
q residence at Timms's Point since
March, 1852, will soon have the
cars in his back yard.
Judge Alexander, Col. Hewitt
and Wilse Potts, who are all en-.
rolled among the San Pedro veter.
ans, greeted the old pioneers at
Wilmington, Faynl AMI San Pedro
with enthusiasm, bottled beer and
a fine lunch that Judge Uuderhill
had secured from landlord Deuker,
of the Cosmopolitan. The only
persons who seemed out of place
during lunch were our estheti c
friends, Ryan, Rowan, Egan,
Stackpole, Woolff and Briefly, who
charged more frequently aud gall
laptly than the ether famous Light
Brigade, aud carried away the
commissary stores,
The principal object of the trip
was 10 enable the Supervisors to
examine the proposed location of
the Railroad Compsny's wharf and
determine whether franchise
should be granted for 5000 feet
along the channel for that import.
ant work. This subject will be con-
sidered at the meeting of the Board
to-day.
Whatever they may decide, it is
evident that all vessels that can
cross the bar will be able to moor
alongside the wharf, and ship and
car will be brought together at far
thest within sixty days, probably
during the present month. The
water oL the bar is now about
eleven feet at low tide, which will
allow the lum Der schooDers to pass
in, but large ships must handle
about half cargo in the outer bay
at present.
The government work on the
breakwater aud training walls,
under the direction of Mr.. A. J.
Swift, is making rapid progress,
and the $50. 900 appropriation this
year will make marked improve
ments.
Capt. Geo. G. Kuox is engineer
for the railroad company at the
front and gave the party some val
liable information.
Superintendent Hewitt, con-
ductor Hughes, engineer Jesse Titus
and Capt Jargstorff managed the
transportation portion of the trip
in a manner that added greatly to
the pleasure Of the company, who
will not soon forget their pleasant
day "at the front at San Pedro"