Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23
Los ANGELES HERALD: MORNING FEBRUARY 1905


anchorage room must be provided in
side breakwater the flatter the ocean
bottom it, or, in other words, the slower
the depth increases as you go out from
the shore, the better. Off Long Beach
this condition Is remarkably good, bet
| ter, in fact, than at any other place IN
this locality. So fiat is the bottom there
that it is two miles between the five-
fathom and eight-fathom curves-that
| is, between the thirty and forty-eight
foot depths. Inside the present break
water the distance between those depths
| is only half a mile. In other words OIL
| Long Beach every foot of breakwater
will shelter nearly four times as much
deep water anchorage as inside the
present breakwater Nevertheless, the
present breakwater is properly located,
| because it shelters the entrance to the
inner harbor and because a breakwater
in front OF Long Beach alone would
not have the proper protection from
| southwest storms. A 20,000-foot extern
sion of the present breakwater in seven
and one-half to eight fathoms OF water
would reach almost to the easterly edge
of Long Beach and add at least ten
times as much sheltered deep water
anchorage as is now available-enough
to anchor half dozen fleets like Ad-
miral Evans.
sThe extension would not be continu-
GUS because a gap will be required
near the end of the present breakwater,
to afford a convenient and easy enc
trance to the inner harbor. The fur
Their extension could be built from
barges or from a trestle starting out
from Long Beach. The extension should
not be built with superstructure walls
of square stone. but should be rubbie
mound, using the whole output of the
quarries, the small stone going into the
bottom and in the core, and the heavier
stone on the sea side and top.
"Such a structure would require for
each foot of length about $50 tons or
stone at about 81 per ton, making
total of s7.0OO,0O0 for the 10000 feet.
Must Have Eleven Millions
add to the above $7,00O,OOO, 100000
more for inner harbor improvements,
and we have a total of $11,0o0,O0O to be
appropriated in thirty years, or less
than $4,000 per year.
eleven millions seems like a huge
sum, and the harbor that would be
developed would be tremendous. You
shake your heads and think congress
will never appropriate the money and
there never will be enough commerce
to warrant such an expenditure.
"But consider-there are only four
localities on the Pacific coast of the
United States capable of large CONNER
cial and naval development-Puget
sound mouth of the Columbia river,
San Francisco bay and Southern Cali
fornia, and for deep draft vessels--i. e.,
vessels of thirty feet-the Columbia
river is a most serious problem, well
nigh impossible.
"Then think of the scores of harbors
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. and
then of the enormous population OF
Asia just beginning to realize that
there is something more than rice and
breech clouts to live for, and it doesn't
take a very wild imagination to pic
ture an enormous business at San
Pedro.
ITO show you that eleven millions
more is not unreasonable to expect for
San Pedro in the next thirty years let
us briefly review what has already been
appropriated for ports on the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts and the great lakes.
as well as the Pacific.
Harbor Appropriations
'There are thirteen harbors In the
United States besides three channels
connecting the great lakes on which
the government has already appro-
priated or authorized, on an average,
very nearly twice as much as 1t has
thus far appropriated for San Pedro.
THE three channels connecting the great
lakes are here treated as harbors be-
cause their Improvement was abso-
lutely essential to the growth of the
great lakes harbors. The thirteen har-
bors referred to and the amounts APP
propriated for their Improvement are
as follows: Boston, $12,s7S000; Calves
ton. S11.57g.OO0: New York. $40, 900:
Philadelphia, $9.501 900: Columbia river,
81. 072. 900 (7,277,000 on entrance and ST.
ZOE. 900 on the river between Portland
and its MOUTH; New Orleans, $780,
600; Savannah, $S.TS5.0 Cleveland, ST.
656,OO0; Buffalo, s6,913.000; Duluth. s6,-
1876. 900; Mobile, $500, 900; Chicago, $5,-
161 900; Charleston, $4,657, 900, making a
total of $107 ,6S7 900.
1.-THE total amount heretofore appro-
priated for San Pedro is $4,51S,000. and
il we add to that the $11.000,0 900 proposed
the grand total will be $15,500.000, or
only about $2.500,000 more than has al
ready been appropriated for Boston
harbor
For harbors on the great lakes there
have been appropriated $92,06S,00O and
for the eighteen largest harbors of the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts the amount
is 500, 2SS.000, besides many millions
more for smaller harbors.
ION the other hand the total appro-
priations for Pacific coast harbors have
been $25, 772, 900, or only a little over
one-quarter of the amount spent on the
great lakes harbors and one-quarter
of the amount spent on eighteen only
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