The herald., 1895-02-24
MEN WHO ARE
ABLE TO JUDGE FAVOR
SAN PEDRO
Members of the Southern California
Association of Engineers and
Architects on the Issue
Los Angeles, CAL, Feb Is, 1895


The Southern California Association
of Engineers and Architects is continu-
ally on the lookout for live subjects to
form the basis of discussions at its meet
ings from time to time.
The Herald has made the subject of a
deep water harbor at San Pedro very
lively one lately and the Association has
decided to take it up.
Yesterday about fifteen of the leading
members of the Association visited San
Pedro, and spent the entire day aboard
a tug out upon the waters of the bay.
Accompanying the party was Mr..
Axman, the gentleman who superin-
tended the dredging already done in the
| channel, leading from the inner harbor
to the outer one.
The little gasoline launch bore the
party OF twenty out through the channel
onto the o0en sea. 1t YVES rough outside,
strong nd was blowing up from the
southwest, but the members of the
tumbling of the little craft, and were borne
safely back into the still harbor
The site OF the proposed breakwater was
pretty thoroughly Investigated and the
channel and inner harbor were gone over
and soundings taken along the way.
L hc advantages anu disadvantages were
investigated and nothing left unseen
which would tend to make opinions
either one way or the other.
On Saturday next the members of the
association will go to Santa Monica. The
same procedure will be gone through with
there and then it will be time for discus
sion.
But the indications are it will be one
sided discussion. Several members of the
association were seen last night after the
party had returned from San Pedro
Not one of those seen thought that Santa
Monica can compare with San Pedro as a
site Tor deep-water harbor.
This little plan of ours is simply for
our own benefit and entertainments, y said
one OF the members, last night " and he
smiled at the suggestion of the reporter
that Congress was to be swayed BY the
opinions of the members of the assccia-
ton We want to discuss among our
selves all the live subjects of the day
which in any way pertain to our vocation,
and we have taken this deep water harbor
business up because it seemed to be
directly in our line. We will investigate
both sides, have our discussions and make
an opinion. If this opinion. should prove
to be OF any use to those who are most
interested in the harbor matter we sha.
be pleased to lend that opinion for use by
the parties deserving it, But as an asso-
citation we are not interested in the ques-
tion at all.
81 will say, though, that the opinion of
the association is going to be changed in
favor of San Pedro. That is foregone
conclusion. The opinion will be based
upon these facts: San Pedro is protected
on the side from where the most storms
come; it is ample in width; breakwater
is easy of construction, the inner harbor
can all be utilized for dry docks on its
shores and can be dredged out with little
trouble. .t
''The thing to do now is to dredge
outside the river harbor and through the
channel. The channel has a depth of fif-
teen feet at present, and should be made
to accommodate the largest ocean-going
vessels, which draw from twenty to twen-
ty-fve feet OF water.' This was the opin-
ion of several of the members of the
association who made tn trip YESTERDAY.
"The visit to Santa Monica is expected
to simply make the favorable impression
of San Pedro harbor stronger in the
minds of the men who know whereof
they speak when they say that San Pedro
is the only available site for safe. com
modious and convenient deep water har-
bor for Southern California