The herald., 1896-12-23
COILS ?. Huntington and HIS HOOD

to reach the deep water harbor, it is
quite obvious that the Southern Pacific
could take more northerly track and
there would be no trouble whatever.
They would provide the highway and the
wharf for other roads; indeed their Of
fer is almost paternal Gaughter)
In reference to the coniiderce of ship
owners in Port Los Angeles, he would
state that marine insurance was but
one and one-half per cent higher than
at San Francisco. Merchants ard ship
pers of Los Angeles are very apt to
form opinions from the routes over which
they ship freights; statistics with the
board showing the extent Of the traffic
handled by the Pacific Coast Steamship
company at all points. The showing
as to what is thought here by shippers
Of Port Los Angeles is really eloquent
The speaker would say in conclusion
that Pert Los Angeles has come to stay.
They would also file statistics showing
distances from that point to Chatsworth
Park, Huenene and Montalvo in the
Santa Clara valley. through which the
Southern Pacific proposed to build rail-
road. There is not a point where the
Southern Pacific has interests that it
could not make it more disagreeable to
other roads than at Port Los Angeles.
If the breakwator is built it is the inter-
ton Of Tie company to take material
from the hills to do a large amount of
filling where the wharf touched the
shore, to increase facilities for unload
ing and loading vessels and the building
of other tracks.
SOME INTERROGATIO
In reply to question from Mr.. Nor
riSoE Mr.. Hood stated that were he to
rebuild the pier at Port Los Angeles he
would not modify nor change its con-
l,..s1 - \,
view of avoiding swe!ls, but with the
idea of doing business during the great
est number of days in the year. The
steamer Corona had declined to come
in alorgsde the wharf. but the speaker
was very much surprised at the ease
with which she did come in; this would
be explained more fully later. Reply
ing to another question, Mr.. Hood had
never seen q wave over four feet from
trough to crest.
Mr.. Morrison--You have proposed the
location of a breakwater at the end "f
the wharf. what governs the proposed
distance seaWard?
MI Hood thought it should be located
something over one-fourth of a mile,
using practically the same distance from
the five fathom line with much less
depth of water to construct 1T in. The
most important swell that affects busi-
ness is not the storm swell, as they Go
not average ten days in the year. Mr.
Hood answered several questions con-
cerning the currents and storm swells.
He felt quite sure that the wharf would
not be endangered by the deepening of
the water nor the securing of the waves
the clay is SO tough that it is almost
hopeless to try to pull anything out of It.
In brief, according to Mr.. Hoods rep
resantation if all the elements of earth,
air and sea had combined to make q
perfectly safe and satisfactory deep sea
harbor they could not have exceeded the
advantages of Santa Monica bay.
In reply to questions about the old
wharf at Santa Monica, Mr.. Hood said
'e went to look at the wharf in 1876 when
he Southern Pacific bought it; they had
! great deal of trouble with it; swe!ls
we're heavier than a the new pier The
elvy swells at Redondo had recently
7rried away part of that wharf, for
h!ch catastrophe the speaker was ex-
'edirgly sorry 1t was not properly
1rstructcd and was abandoned not
ter than 1882. Replying to a question,
'r Hood said that the clay is not so
ard as to prevent an anchors entering
is always covered by layer of sand
rd mud
Mr.. Hold then introduced Mr.. Muir.
and requested that he be allowed if nee
N~=aIy to ask questions of his assistants,
W 40 NtiS present, WHICH privilege was
permitted.
MIR. MUIR TALKS.
MIR. Muir said they had some storms
4 Santa Monica. for storms would come,
but. with one exception. there had bean
no difficulty in handling steamers. On
March 2. 1896, the tug Coils had at
tempted to take out the ship Dunboyne
and failed. but it was discovered that the
Coils had lost one of her propellers.
On the 25th of November there was
another Storm and the papers had re-
ported the Santa Rosa unable to land
This statement has )aen proven to he
untrue, and affidavits in support of the
denial will be filed.
Mr.. Hood then introduced Mr.. Muir,
superintendent of the wharf at Port Los
Angeles.
SUPERINTENDENT JAMESON.
Information was elected from Mr..
Jameson by questions, in reply to which
he stated that he had been in charge
there since 1898, and there had not been