Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-29
LONG BEACH

The Signal Hill Improvement COM
pany closed a contract with the Sunset
Road Oil company of Bakersfield last
Wednesday for 21O0 barrels of OIL The
delivery of the same is to begin August
TO- Grading. graveling and preparing
the streets on the hill for oiling will
begin at once, and the oil will be used
as fast as 1t arrives. After it has been
applied it will be covered with coat
ing of sand.
There seems to be a well-grounded
basis now for the prediction that Ocean
avenue, from Golden to Alamitos ave-
nue., will be paved with asphalt before
the year expires This information
comes from member of the council
who states that by September 1 money
will be on hand in sufficient quantity to
obviate several unsightly depressions,
This improvement of Ocean avenue will
give to strangers much better first
impression of the city.
The transfers of lots 16 and II, In
block 81, and of the southwest corner
of Ninth street and Cedar avenue, were
among the notable sales of the past
week. The former property is located
near Alamitos park, nearly a mile and
a half from the business district, but
sold for $4,000. The latter piece, which
is in the west part of town, sold for
L
land Gary. The purchasers in both in
stances were Long Beach people, fact
attesting the general confidence In
realty values.
The residents of Hill street held a
meeting last Monday night to discuss
the Improvement of that thoroughfare
Propositions to gravel and oil the street
were considered and committees ap-
pointed to investigate the same.
Last Waalr tho dead WAS signed pOn-
veying to the Elks' lodge of this city
90x76 feet on Ocean avenue, thirty feet
west of Cedar avenue. This site offers
one of the choicest locations in the
city for a club house, being close to the
bluff and commanding a fine view .of
the sea.
In connection with the foregoing deal
were two others of importance. A
half interest in the thirty feet at the
corner of Ocean and Cedar was sold
to e. L. Wingard and ]. W. Jones'
Young & Parmley retaining the re-
mainder. The 120x200 feet on the north
fronting on Cedar avenue, was also
purchased by Young & Parmley, who
have announced their intention to erect
thereon a modern apartment house.
Wonders have been worked in the
San Gabriel valley in the past six
weeks. For one who does not visit the
scene of the operations of the dredgers
of the Los Angeles Dock & Terminal
company. it is impossible to realize the
amount of work that has already been
done. The big clam-shell dredger has
crossed the slough and is working In
the dead land" having progressed 200
feet into the solid ground. At this rate
the first prediction that the channel tC
the foot of Third street would be COM
pleted by october 1 will be vitrified
There is now from fourteen to sixteen
feet of water from the stake where
work was begun In January TO the
present location of the dredgers. This
Is "a distance of about half a mile. Both
machines work night and day.
Officials of the Terminal company say
that IL their Improvement work is not
tied up by litigation as a result of the
dispute with the San Pedro Salt Works
company concerning the ownership OF
certain lands in the valley the third
dredger, the largest affair Of it's kind
ever put to work out Of San Francisco