Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-09

the HERALD's representative learned
that that, company proposed to make
Redondo Beach their terminal IN
Southern California. The following
| is tno substance Of the interview.
! 81 Understand your company pro-
poses to make Redondo Beach, Judge
Brunson ?'
"Well, we think that place is better
suited for our purpose than any other
| on the coast, and OF course, we will do
our best to make it successful"
care you going to work for itagainst
San Diego?'
"We are not working against any
place, but if we find point better
suited to our purpose, we will do our
best to develop it, and in Redondo,
we have found such Il place and we
intend to make it the biggest shipping
point on the Pacific coast, except San
/ Francisco"
Gas point, what do you think OF
ito"
at is unexcelled the largest vessel
can lie there in perfect quiet and dis
charge and receive her cargo"
"When that proposed pier is fin
ished you will receive freight direct
for San Francisco, will ou?'
eyes. sir, and We will send it there
on the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's steamers"
From the foregoing it will be seen
that the Santa F6 Company has big
interest in Redondo Beach, and when
that company makes an effort to
"boom" a place it generally does it.
The advantages OF Redondo Beach as
a shipping point are certainly excel
lent. Colonel Mendall, the Chief En-
gineer of the United States Army has
been assigned to examine every pro-
posed harbor upon the Pacific Coast,
and his report is now finished, and
in day or two will be ready for
publication. In it he speeks OF
the places upon the coast as fine
ports, but when he comes to Redondo
he lays all others aside and says it is
the finest place for a vessel to land at
he ever saw.
A company has been organized to
build an iron pier 800 feet long which
will run into water 40 feet deep. A
contract for a wooden pier to answer
immediate purposes has been let to
the American Bridge and Building
Company, and operations will be
started upon it at once. This pier
will be replaced by an iron one as
soon as the piles become worn.
Although it is to be only tempor-
ary structure, it will be the finest one
south OF San Francisco, Santa Bar
bara not excepted. 1t will extend
800 feet into the ocean and will be in
the shape OF stick with fork upon
the end. One of these pro9gs will
run out to a depth Of thirty-six feet
aud the other will have depth of
siXty-six feet. On each side of them,
the largest ship can be at anchor in
perfect safety, as Catalina Island pro
tects it from the winds coming across
the ocean and the Los Palos Nerdes
at San Pedro, from the
southerly gales. 1t is claimed that
there will be no ground swell, as the
beach shelves gradually until it gets
eight or ten feet deep, when a preci-
pice is reached and d depth OF from
thirtysix to sixty-six feet is gained.
Any one understanding the cause of
will at once see that this
prevents such thing at
Redondo Beach. On account of the pier
being used only for. commercial pur
poses, an iron one 500 or 800 feet long,
will run out from the hotel side OF the
grounds into water twenty-four feet
deep. The pier is to be used exclusively
for pleasure purposes, and will be the
landing place for yacths OF every size
and shape. 1t will be modelled after
the famous iron piers at Coney Island,
Brighton Beach and other resorts on
the Atlantic Coast. \ matter of pre-
sent interest is the fact, that, during
the late storm there was not L day
that the steamer Santa Rosa could
not have discharged Il cargo at Re-
loudo Reach