Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-06
KINNEY PROJECTS
HARBOR SCHEME
ANOTHER PORT POSSIBLE FOR
LOS ANGELES
Millionaire Has Surveys Made for
Waterway Which May Be Used
II Beach Towns Are
Intractable

Abbot Kinney is finishing the out
line of plans for q harbor scheme
deemed as important to Los Angeles as
any other idea of harbor development
heretofore announced.
The suggested idea of channel and
turning basin big enough for the larg-
est seagoing ships inside the city linn
it's of Los Angeles has been worked out
in detail and the outside estimate Tor
this. as made by competent engineers,
is less than $2,000,000.
The latter plan has been suggested IN
addresses and interviews by harpor
authorities, but The Herald is aDie 10
give for the first time the full plans,
and the announcement of another har-
Dor possible within less than dozen
miles of Los Angeles.
Either of these plans, II carried out,
would leave the cities for which con-
solidation with Los angeles is proposed
san Pedro, Long Beach and Whining
| ton-out in the cold so far as the BEN
| efits of free harbor, municipal wharves
and nominal power and transfer
| charges are concerned.
| Either means that the tremendous
| traffic possible for this section witnm
six to ten years can be taken care or
| without utilizing the harbors which
| have heretofore been prominenf-and
| that, too, by bringing the great steam
| ships closer to the present center OF
| Los Angeles than has heretofore been
| projected.
Savage Factor
Whether or not either is to be taken
! up and made the big end of the Los
| Angeles harbor proposition depends
upon Senator "Bill' Savage, member OF
| the legislature from the Thirty-fourth
| senatorial district. Savage was born
tall
| himself is handy with the shillelah, but
it seems that the harbor commission
| of Los Angeles likewise possesses a big
stick.
If Savage succeeds in his scheme to
| stir up enough discord in Long Beach,
San Pedro and Wilmington to knock out
an amicable cooperative effort for
free harbor the net result viii inJure
those towns more than Los Angeles,
for the latter city has found that II
can do business elsewhere.
| So far as can be learned from Sec
retary Fleming of the harbor and
| President Call of the Municipal Water
ways association, the feeling in this
! city is for carrying out the original
plans first and developing the other
harbors later. But if Savage's com
mittees" block this the commerce that
| is bound to come will be cared for on
new lines.
Abbot Kinney is ShreWd enough TO
| see that tremendous commercial ac-
| tivity will sweep toward that portion
! of the beach which Is able to handle
| shipping and ocean traffic adequately
after the completion of the Panama
canal. He has accordingly worked out
! a plan for a big harbor near Venice
which will still not interfere with the
pleasure side of that and adjoining
| beaches.
To Use Ballona Slough
He proposes to utilize the Ballona
slough making an inner harbor there
and extending a deep channel swinging
| somewhat to the north between the
| Centinela creek and the old Santa
Monica, and Compton road toward Los
angeles. 1t would be possible in this
way to bring the turning basin within
| five or six miles of the western city
limits, and still nearer, later, If de-
| sired. The same arguments about
roads that have been advanced for
San Pedro would apply to the Ballona
harbor.
Mr.. Kinney offers an ingenious meth
cd of delivering rock for the break
water, which he says can be built in a
comparatively cheap manner. He pro-
poses to use the wire cable system now
utilized for considerable distances by
big mining corporations suspended from
the Hollywood quarries to the Bal
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