Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-15

worthy OF construction by the general
government"
CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION,
Pursuant TO this recommendation
Congress has appropriated I290000O to
be spent In building an outer breakwat-
err This work Is now going on II
comprises the building Of n random
stone suhstructuro nearly 5000 feet
long 2o0 feet wide AZ the bottom.
glonlnr naturally 10 n width NJ IS foet
NJ mean low water level from which
the sunorsfructure ~ regularly SHAVED
rock win risa m stems IN height NJ II
foot being m feet wide ~ the ton. This
WIN carry n M n HEIGHT Of feet above
mo extreme srrinr tides and noruon-
7loular'v about m foot from the bottom
NJ the suhsfruoturo. The sunerstructuro
WIN he protected NJ each end by solid
block Of concrete 40 feet square.
THE RREAKwATER.
when COMPLETED the outer hreakwat-
or win afford n protection area ~ about
ono e0uare mile sufficient FOR the as
eomhlinr IN safety ~ any probable feet
hat could need n, and II VIII furnish
wharf frontage 10 the extent Of about
ono and n hair miles
Tho inner harhor when fully I'M
ur0vod win have double that area VIII
ne nerfectlv protected md win have
roarlv elv miles NJ water front making
II one Of the worlds greatest ports.
COST OF DREDGING,
The cost and labor NJ dredging and
vtshHgh
win require a long time 10 comnlete is
s0 great lover two millions NJ dollars)
that the engineer has made estimates
for n mart NJ the work and recommends
that n be 50 ARRANGED that immediate
and constantly Increasing benefits
might be realized ne the general work
proceeds At cost ~ about half mil
lion dollars a channel twenty feet deep
and FOUR hundred feet wide from the
ocean 10 the lower end NJ the wharfs
and a turning basin sixteen hundred
feet I'm diameter between the wharfs
and the lower end Of Mormon island
can be dredged 10 the depth of twenty
four feet Besides this and included in
the above estimate Of cost the present
iettles can be repaired and made dur
able being extended so far as 10 insure
tUdNUel 'N'l INC va -'' i''N
deep at low tide, and conse-
qucnty creating a harbor OF sur
fcieut capacity for any business
that might be expected within the
time Of IT'S construction which viii be
three years.
SHIPPING PORT FOR UTAH
That this work will be authorized by
the next Congress Is fully expected
and Il viii be IN actual construction
while the Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railway Is being built So by the time
this line reaches the sea the state Of
Utah viii have a shipping port 10 the
markets Of all the world
The Importance Of this great I'M
provement the cost Of which seems so
small. cannot be fully estimated To
what proportions the trade II viii de-
velop may reach only the greatest
minds I'm the world of manufacture and
commerce are capable Of foreseeing.
To others Il appears as a dream. As
affecting the intermountain commerce
the opening OF this harbor and the
construction Of the Salt Lake line Of
railway will create another Plttsburg
IN Iron county Utah. as near TO the
tides Of the Pacific as the great iron
works Of Pennsylvania now are 10 the
ports Of the Atlantic ocean There IS
as much iron ore and coal there, upon
which 10 base this expectation. Back
Of Il. from the mountains OF sand
stone. granite and marble Of sulphur
gypsum and asphalt, OF coal and cop.
per. lead, silver and gold a stream OF
wealth WIN forever flow 10 swell the
magnificent commerce Of the Pacific;
moreover. when the salt Of the earth
hath lost its SAVIOR" and the cry goes
forth. "Wherewithal shall II be salt
ed?" obviously the answer will be
through the port Of San Pedro. from
the Great Salt Lake, upon whose
shores the genial smile Of the sun god
crystalllzo a million tons a year + o. b.
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway at
thirty cents a ton
STORY OF SELECTION
The story Of the selection OF San
Pedro I'm preference to Santa Monica