Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-09

When it came down to giving the South
ern Pacific the right of way for q dock
the senator was shown the stakes Of th
survey, and said that if they were LEI
permanent, all right; but the Southern
: Pacific bad fashion oi changing sur
veys to suit itself. Hence he insisted OF
the deed to the right Of way being mad
up from the field notes of the survey
Messrs. Jones and Baker want room lef
: for competing roads.
, Colonel Craighill-How far does thi
! right of way extend? Up to the mouth
OF Santa Monica cafion. They also gave
the company sufficient area for 9
roundhouse.
Mr.. Crawley, assistant passenger
agent OF the Southern Pacific company
The railroad in erecting its new wharf al
santa Monica is merely discounting the
future. 1t is more question OF time
than anything else. 1t will be
great saving to sea going
passengers between San Francisco
and here, for it would enable the paseen-
gers to reach Los Angeles before the
ship could hope to reach Redondo. II
would give Santa Monica as big an ad-
vantage over Redondo as Redondo now
has over San Pedro.
Here lengthy discussion upon the
saving of time ensned between Mr.. Craw-
ley and Judge Gibbons.
Major Handbury-What proportion of
traffic going north goes by steamer?
cannot say exactly, but / think it is
all OF 35 per cent. The sea travel is
larger in summer time than in winter.
Mr.. Gibbon and Mr.. Crawley now had
another discussion over the matter of
railway freights between here and the
bay towns about San Francisco, after
which Mr.. Crawley retired.
Mr.. Hood, chief engineer of the South
ern Pacific railroad, next mounted the
rostrum, with bundle OF maps in bis
hand. He began to speak about engi-
neering matters about Santa Monica,
when Colonel Craighill cut him short.
Colonel Craighill-I understand this
to be meeting of commercial char
acter, and go far as any engineering
matters are concerned, we do not pro.
pose to handle them here. 1t is our in
tention to give special hearing to the
engineers advocating the claims of any
place which may desire the location of a
permanent harbor. What We are here
TOR is to listen to the maritime questions
involved.
Mr.. Hood now unrolled the maps of
Santa Monica and vicinity, and was
subjected to an enfilade of cross ques-
tons by the board, Judge Carpenter,
Mr.. Stephens, Mr.. Gibbon, and Mr..
Monroe, that would have set any
other man wild, but they couldn't phaze
Mr.. Hood. 1t seemed as if his cradle
had been raced down from witness
box. He said the wharf is open to the
public, and any mans vessel may land
there. The only course for the build
ing of this wharf was that San Pedro
had proven insufficient for the needs of
the Southern Pacific, and they had gone
ahead to build their wharf at Santa
Monica, regardless of the breakwater.
IN BEHALF OF gEDoNDo.
Mr.. Walton, agent of the johnson &
Locke line of steamships, spoke of the
commercial prospects OF Redondo which
was barely three years old. 1t had been
projected just after the collapse of the
great land boom, and by men whose
names were scarcely known here, but
the money spent by them had counted
largely at time when everything was
depressed. In less than three years it
had caught so per cent of the trade of
this section. His company had Just dis
charged 1000 tons upon the Redondo
wharf, from the steamer Progreso, and
had already four more vessels coming.
One of these was sailing vessel, from
Antwerp, with plate glass and other
cargo of foreign manufacture; the second
was the big steel steamer Conemaugh,
with 4200 tons aboard, of which over
1000 tons were for Redondo. Another
steamer was laid on the berth at New
York, with a capacity of $500 tons, of
which 900 would land at Redondo; and
another would follow her in five weeks
from now.
Judge Stephens was the next speaker.
He said that when you talk about open.
ing a harbor, you must first ascertain
that it has good approaches by land, in
order that the railroad car may be
brought alongside the chip; and then
you must see that the approaches by
sea are good, SO that the ship and cargo
shall not be ieopardized in arriving or
departing. Redondo was just such a
harbor, and had already two lines of
railroad to approach the ship. 1t was
the terminus of a transcontinental road
that the people of Los Angeles had
good cause to regard as the greatest line
in America-the Santa Fe road. To that
corporation Southern California owed
the advertisement of her wealth all over
the world. The Rsdondo Beach coma
pany recognizes no privileged class.
Its wharf ia open to railroads from
any and all quarters. 1t is not bidding
or begging for terminal honors-it has
them already. During the past two and
q half years the Redondo wharf has
done so per cent of the business of Los
Angeles and vicinity, as this table will
show:
Year. Steamers Tons
1852 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 83 S,261
1880. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LISP 26,S35
1891. .......................19 1874 29,l87
lS92t.... 1872 20,O9S
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