The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1893-05-14
Los ANGELES BUSINESS MEN INSPECT
THR hRW WHARF.

II took eleven cars yesterday to haul
the members of the chamber OF COM
MERGE and board OF trade down TO in
spect the new wharf which the Southern
Pacific railway has almost completed at
point above the Old Santa Monica
canon. They were accompanied by
pretty much all the business men OF Los
Angeles who are not attached to those
bodies. The end of the structure was
reached within IN hour; and, under the
competent supervision OF assistant freight
and passenger agent, Mr.. J. M Oraw-
ley, it's salient features we're quickly
pointed out. The crack collier, the San
Mateo, flying the Hawaiian flag, was
found discharging coal at the rate OF a
hundred ions an hour from the hold on
to the cars of the railway company, the
immense coal bunker not yet having
been completed. Elsewhere in this ie-
sue of the HERALD will be found com
plete account OF the excursion and its
incidents, so that we shall not enter at
any length into details of the occasion.
Suffice it to say that all the visitors were
delighted and that they gave hearty ex-
preston to their admiration.
The HERALD must be pardoned for
"Reminiscences in connection with this
wharf. This journal was the fret in
the state to give the public Information
of the fact that this project was in con-
temptation by the Southern Pacific rail-
way. Our contemporaries sneered at
our information with singular unani-
nifty. 1t was weeks before they would
admit that there was anything in the
contemplated enterprise, and they came
down at last with a very bad grace.
OF course we are pleased that our in
formation WAS accurate. with the par
donable desire of putting the noses of
our contemporaries out of joint but we
were pleased on other and better
grounds. The construction OF this gu
perb plant on the shorteBt practicable
line between the two oceans means that
more than local commerce is about to
grow up at Santa Monica. 1t 10 guar
antee that large portion of the trade
of Asia and the Islands will be diverted
from San Francisco, Oregon and British
Columbia to the short route. 1t means,
also, that the coffee trade OF the Pacific
coast of Central America will take the
same direction. The time is not distant
when goodly fleets will be moofed to
this noble structure, hailing from all the
points of the compass. The Southern
Pacific railway have already made ar
rangements for fast lines OF steamsbips
between Now Orlaana and Nov vNrt
and Liverpool. Thus we see vast inter-
continental and transcontineHtai COM
MERGE ahead for our pretty young Port
Los Angeles, which will grow with more
than the rapidity of the famous mus.
tard seed of the scriptural parable.
Once this great movement has begun it
is perfectly safe to assume that it will
not stop until Santa Monica will be con-
verified into q harbor surpassed by few in
the world, the natural configuration of
the bay rendering its creation remark
ably easy. For three hundred and fifty
out of the three hundred and sixty-five
days of the year it is as placid as the
Mississippi river.
All hail to the young port, and may
she fulfill her mission beyond the ex-
pectstions of her most eanguine friends
That Port Los Angeles will form prin
cipal feature in the development of the
immense region tributary to Los An
geles, and in the commerce of the whole
country, no one doubted who partici-
pated in the excursion of Yesterday.