The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-30
SAN PEDRO ENDORSED.

Dispatches received from ST. Louis,
where the transmississippi congress is
in session, convey the satisfactory in
formation that the Parsons resolution
in favor of the improvement OF San
Pedro harbor was carried, and becomes
q part of the official utterance OF that
body.
1t ia q clear and unequiyocal document
setting forth that 90 there are now no
adequate harbor facilities on the CAL
ifornis coast, between San Diego and
San Francisco-a distance OF 600 miles
and as the government has. through its
engineers. in several exhaustive reports,
unanimously selected San Pedro barbor
90 the most eligible site for Q deep sea
harbor. and as the only practicable har-
Dor OF refuge for this section; that con-
gress at its coming session be urged to
provide for the construction Of the deep
sea harbor ct San Pedro, and for the
further improvement OF the interior har-
Dor at San Pedro.
The cause Of the peoples harbor has
thus secured the plain and emphatic en-
dorsement of this congress. made up of
several hundred delegates from all
OF the states west Of the Missouri river.
We regard this % no Insignificant stop
in advancing the cause. As long ~ the
effort to capture the h..bor OF Los An
geles for the sole use and benefit OF the
Southern Pacific railway was carried on
quietly, and the public made to believe
that the question of location was q
trivial and unimportant ono, concerning
no one except the few people who had
property interests in one place or the
other, just go long was there danger that
the scheme would be successful. The
moment the enemy was forced out into
the open whore his plans and purposes
became evident to every level beaded
citizen OF Calf ornia, his chance of ao-
complishing anything more serious than
q troublesome delay was destroyed. In
proportion, moreover, as the people be-
come thoroughly awake to what is going
on, and enter vigorous protest against
the designs of the railroad, just TO that
degree will the delay of the appropria-
ton be lessened.
There is no one thing that can, in the
probability of human events, happen to
Los Angeles county that would ben eft it
more, directly and indirectly, than the
passage of an appropriation for the be-
ginning OF the construction of a deep
sea harbor at San Pedro. 1t means the
quickening of every line Of business. q
stimulus to every form of trade and COM
merce. the immediate completion OF Q
new road into Utah and q grand open
ing up of thousand new opportunities.
Who favors such an appropriation
Practically all the people of Southern
California. All the people Of the state
who are informed on the subject sufi-
GENTLY to have an opinion. All the
people OF the ives. interested In aouth-
western commerce. Both the Californi ia
senators. All the California representa-.
tives. Probably also the majority oil
the necessary committees in both senate
and house.
And who stands in the way of the
beginning of all this prosperity?
Mr.. Huntington.
There he will stand, too. AZ long as
the people tolerate 1t. Whenever they
show that they are thoroughly in earn.
est they will compel him to do, az he
has often done before-retreat van.
Quished.