Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-03

Redondo Beach tract comprises 1,25O
acres, purchased from the Sehoritas
Dominguez. Its superb wharf, con-
structed on the latest developments OF
marine architecture, is 900 feet long and
so feet wide, with warehouse,
two lines of track, hoisting engines,
water pipes and all appliances
complete. The depth of water at ordi-
nary low tide is thirty feet at the end of
the wharf and eighteen feet inshore from
the ocean end. 1t is built with special
view to strength, and is diagonally
braced underneath with one and one
half-inch iron rods. The company have
purchased fine tug in San Francisco,
which will leave for Redondo on
Wednesday next, loaded with supplies
for the energetic prosecution of work.
They have also purchased lot OF fine
boats in San Diego of the Whitehall
pleasure-seeking variety-which will be
kept for the use of the public. BY the
first of April steam launch will also be
added to the pleasure feet.
THE WATER WORKS, HOTEL AND BATH
HOUSES.
The water works of the Redondo Beach
Com pany consist of compound Worth
ington pump OF 100000 gallons daily
capacity; one forty horse-power
boiler, fitted with all the mod
ern appliances. The water supply is
drawn from thirty-two wells, all con-
nected with a double system of suction
pipes, 80 that the water is drawn from
each we'll alike. A constant test, at the
rate of 900 gallons per minute, fails to
ha otar fhr,z
ing to the town An abundant supply of
pure and soft water. The water mains
are of eight and six inch cast and lap
welded pipe. The reservoir is 164 feet
above the works and 148 feet above the
hotel site. 1t is of concrete throughout,
with twelve inch sides and bottom six
inches thick. 1t is ITO feet long, 105
wide on the bottom and is IS feet deep.
The reservoir has a capacity of three
million gallons.
As we have said. the hotel will be
erected at once. 1t will be on the same
general plan as the Ramona" at San
Luis Obispo, but it will be much larger.
1t will contain 220 rooms, and will
be finished and furnished in first
class style. The two lower stories will
be of brick, and the upper stories OF
brick and wood. AS we have noted be-
fore, special feature will be the hot and
cold salt water baths, water for which
will he brought from the Salt lake-the
old Will Tell salt works-which contains
three times the sodium matter of ocean
water.
| A curious feature of the eXouisitely
soft and pure water with which Redondo
Beach is supplied is that the wells from
which it is pumped are located within g
few feet of the salt springs-which are
themselves six feet higher than the
ocean-and are located in a sort of shell
dyke, which assures the intelligent OBJ.
server that they are the percolation oi
mountain springs, caught on the very
rim of the sea.
| A large bath house for transient visi.
tors and excursionists will be built on the
opposite side of the track from the rail
way station, and within fifty feet from
the trains which will bring the thousands
who, in the Summer season. will be
anxious to plunge into the briny. An.
other bath house, for the use of the hotel
guests, will be built nearly half a mile
south.
| We have before referred to the bulk.
head, or sea wall which has been already
partially built, extending from the wharf
south to the present bath house, and
which will be shortly completed. On a
portion of this bulkhead the walls have
been sloped down to the bulkhead. The
whole surface will be thus treated, and
will be planted with grasses and suitable
flowers.
The hotel grounds comprise twenty-five
and half acres, and will be laid out
with flowers, lawns, and Forest Park.
The improvement on these grounds is
already we'll under way. There has
already been q large demand for lots on
this splendid preserve, and many of oul
weafthiest citizens will proceed at once
to build elegant seaside villas, and they
will have them ready for occupancy dur
ing the coming spring. Amongst them
are Judge Brunson, several members o
the firm of Harper, Reynolds & Co., the
| Dominguez sisters and list too numer
GUS for mention.
| THE CENTINELA-INGLEwOoD LAND COM
PANY.
This article has already grown to such
redundant lengths that we have but 6
brief space to devote to the Centinela
Inglewood Company, but we shall recur to
it again. The officers of this company are
precisely the same as those enumerated
in the Redondo Beach Company. The
principal owners are also the same. The
tract of land comprised in this designa.
tion consists of IL $50 acres, in which is
included Inglewood proper, which
has 1900 acres, the orchard por.
ton of this beautiful town compris.
ing 4SO acres. The water for this
most delightful and prosperous OF all
California towns is supplied from thirteen
flowing artesian wells, all connected with
one system. The water for irrigation
flows on to the land by gravity; that for
town use is pumped to concrete reser.
voir, and thence distributed in iron
mains to the town. The orchard portion
of Inglewood will this year yield 5000
boxes of oranges and 1000 boxes o1
lemons; and 1000 boxes of lines will
complete the exhibit of the citrus portion
of this superb orchard town, which is
yet in its infancy. Its olive trees have
also advanced to the stage of yielding
abundantly. No place in Southern Cali.
fornia or in the world has surer pros.
pect for prosperity than Inglewood
Purchasers under the old Silent Childs
control are coming up and paying their
installments with q readiness which
shows what confidence they have in the
outcome of the place. We shall have
much to say of Inglewood in a future
issue of the HERALD. We have reached
the reasonable limits of descriptive