Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-26
soo as Entrance to City OF
Angels and Harbor
Rights.
INDEPENDENT" VENTURES.
mn, tina, Harriman's Rival Is Prcpnr-
ing for Future Is Evident In
Every Move.

Coma time ago the News prlnteu
-. about the organization Of
roiirood and harbor companies. which
believed to have been n Gould
n,oyc to secure an entrance into Los
,nga.s. Further details are furn-
,sbed nv the Los Angeles Times. This
says
The problem of how Gould's West
,r, Pacific railroad will have an en-
,rsnce to Los Angeles has apparently
s,en solved by the organization OF
tbc Los Angeles Harbor Railroad
company
At the same time was flied the ar
,icles of Incorporation Of the Los An
geles Harbor company, which aims to
develop the West Basin at Whining
ton.
While each company is independent
of the other both have the same III
rectors. and will cooperate. Each
company is capitalized at s2,500,0O0,
Win sg5. 900 subscribed. The Harbor
company will have 100000 in pre-
ferred stock and provision Is made
for bonded indebtedness of $1,000
600 while the Harbor Railroad COM
rany has O provision for s2,000,00
bonded indebtedness.
A. c. Bird formerly traffic manager
of the Gould lines In the east, but
now resident Of Compton, has been
elect president of both the new
comm Mes Mr.. Bird was also at one
time vice president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad He
is the leading spirit in the new enter
prlses which may mean much to Los
Angeles,
F. c. Wintrode is secretary of both
companies. and j. ". Oakley is treas
urer. The other directors are Jacob
Baruch n w Myrlck. Lee c. Gates.
Fielding j. Stilson. a. p. Maginnis
and II c. oakley of Los Angeles; F.
s Cary. Wilmington, and w. j. Ark
ell. New York.
TO SAN PEDRO.
In the articles of Incorporation 1t is
stated that the purposes of the rail-
road company are to build, buy. lease,
own and operate railroads and rail-
ways to be operated by electricity,
steam or other motive power, over, on
and along the following route and
from and to the following places. and
over and along the following branches.
From a point to be hereafter Sc
the city Of San Pedro. That the esti-
mated length of said railroad is 25
niles"
GET WATER RIGHTS.
The papers also provided for the
ownership and operation of steamships
and other vessels for freight and pas
senger traffic. and for the building and
operation of telegraph and telephone
lines An express business Is also eX-
gressly provided for,
In addition to these extended pow
ors the companies will "own and ac-
Wlre under the laws of eminent do
main" docks, wharves, yards, ma
chine shops. etc This will meGn
the employment of great number OF
men, Including skilled mechanics.
IT'S INDEPENDENT
II has been stated by members of
the directorate and by Allen and Van
dyke, of the firm of LAWYER, Alien.
Vandyke & Jutten. who, with Lloyd w.
Mcutrle, are attorneys for the pro-
meters, that the proposed new line
connecting this city with it's harbor
will be built with Independent capital.
end that so far as any other corpora
ton Is concerned, each company Is
absolutely independent.
This capital, 1t Is asserted, has been
secured and as soon as some further
necessary preliminaries are completed
work Will he commenced on the rail-
read and the Garbor
EsPEE BARRED.
Apparently the Southern Pacific
Is barred. Secy Wintrode says: "By
tie formation OF this company we are
elabled to hold open Tor other roads
a right of way TO the sea from Los
Angeles. II Gould's Western Pacific
desires to enter the city by our tracks
Il viii be given the privilege SO will
the Santa Fe. or any other line. | do
mol think there win be any hitch
This development of the West Pa.
SIN and the building OF this line will
mean the development of Whining
lpn' development which could never
heVe obtained under the original Flint
resolution In Congress For if the
southern Pacific gets possession OF
san Pedro harbor 1t viii kill Whining
Ton and deal 1t a blow 1t will take
from
When the Panama canal Is com
pltied' The ships of all companies and
na'iohs using the canal on their way
~ inc north, to Hawaii and TO the
orient VIII pass within 20 miles of
d i'os angeles and this port will be-