The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-07
Los Angeles Terminal Railway.

on terms dictated by the Southern Pa
cific.
Los Angeles Terminal Railway.
At San Pedro. on the other hand.
competition already began to appear
The Los Angeles Terminal railway was
organized by r. &. herens and George
3. Leighton of St. Louis and others to
acquire terminal facilities in Los An
geles and San Pedro. AT that time IL
was expected that the Union Paclhc
would build rom Salt Lake to Los
Angeles. The projectors, when they
built the line from Los Angeles 10 san
Pedro in 1872. expected eventually 10
sell or lease their line TO the trans
continental road. Existing motor roads
chased. and a new line built 10 San
Pedro harbOr. This new line paraleled
the Southern Pacific about five miles
farther east until Long Beach was
reached. thence il followed the coast
over Rattlesnake. now Terminal, island
to East San Pedro, on the eastern SHORE
o. the inner harbOr. There docks were
built and considerable tonnage began
moving both ways over the new road
This was the nucleus Of the san PEDRO
Los Angeles & Salt Lake road, and II
was a powerful factor in giving the
people of Los Angeles a free harbor
Two competitors to San Pedro as
harbor had developed in all these years
Senator J. p Jones of Nevada anc
others began the development of Santa
Monica in 1870 building wharf Iners
and a railroad to Los Angeles 1nlS
competition compelled the southern "a
cific to reduce its exOrbitanU rates &C
the sea at San Pedro. and when tn
big system absorbed the Santa MonicS
road in 1877 it did not raise the rates
A few years later the Southern PaclRl
abandoned the harbOr as unsafe, 90
Huntington changed back there in IN
early '9Os and began to try 70 get Jn'
! government to make it safe
The other competitive harbor wa
established at RedOndO. mid way be
( tween San Pedro and Santa Monica. II
/ 1889 a party of Oregon capitalists or
/ gained the Redondo Railway company
and built a narrow gauge line betNeel
/ Los Angeles and RedOndo, with Whar
I az RedOndO. Deep sea vessels cOuI'
{ reach the wharf readily, while lighter
2 ing was at that time necessary IN Sal
/ Pedro for the large draughJ SHIPS
! Consequently Redondo began TO get
+ large share of the traffic TIE SanL
Fe built in there in 1880, and in 169
/ Redondo was getting Inc bulk OF IN
( Los Angeles water traffic
/ Bitter Struggle Begun.
/ senator Charles FELTON,. who sue
J ceeded Senator George Hearst, an
1 Representative w. W. Bowers set on
J to secure an appropriation Of S25O,OO
TO start the work on the san Pedr
outer harbor. To assist them in TIN
/ work Charles Fornan, representing IN
( Los. Angeles chamber of commerce, an
! T. E. Gibbon attorney and vice presi
dent of the Terminal railway, went [
: Washington. When the matter cam
! M before the senate committee o
! commerce the southern Pacific snowe
for the first time its violent opposluoI
and bitter war was inauSurated last
ing for a decade, and showing how on
I man could be powerful enough 70 de
feat for years an entire state. Durln
( this war Senator William P. Frye &
/ Maine acted as chief agent for the cor
/ Doratfon in the senate and Binge
] Hermann of Oregon, then a representa-
! tive and afterwaTd- commissioner OF IN