Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-05
LUMBER FIRMS
MAKING PLANS
FOUR COMPANIES TO MOVE ON
HARB0R
STEP IN oEvELoPMENToF LOCAL
SHIPPING TRADE
Will Locate Yards on Wilmington
Side of East Basin-Feature in
Steady Growth of Water
Front

DEVELOPMENTS of considerable inn
nortance in connection with the IN
crease of the lumber trade of Los An
geles are now well under way. -Four
large lumber companies are working
out plans which will ultimately estap-
1ish a lumber distributing point COM
mensurate with the coming harbor de-
velopment
san Pedro already has attained
leading place in the lumber activity or
the United States, and its jumps IN
that direction in the last ten years are
not euualed by any other port OF
entry in the country. With the new
harbor development and greater trade
at Los Angeles the increase is expected
TO continue.
one feature is the new move of four
important companies in the vicinity OF
the harbor at Wilmington. The plans
of the Consolidated Lumber company
practically have been completed, and
those of the Blinn- Robinson and r. K.
Wood Lumber companies are under
consideration. A fourth company, said
to be a new concern here, also f1gures
in the development, which will help to
make the Wilmington portion OF the
basin big lumber center
The Blinn-Robinson and e. K. Wood
companies will move their San PEDRO
wards into the Wilmington section, al
though neither has as yet completed
its plans. The lease of one company
on its present location will expire In
three years, while the other has less
time in which to make its arrange
ments.
The Consolidated Lumber company
expects to be working on its scheme for
improvement for nearly a year. in
which time it will spend nearly $500, 600.
In less than ten years, however, 1t
expects to make a saving which VIII
more than repay the betterment work
bv cutting out extra handling of lum-
ber.
Will Dredge Channel
This expense by the Consolidated
company covers dredging channel 3OO0
feet long, 200 feet wide at the top ana
% feet deep at high water, and with
a 400-foot turning basin. 1t also in
cludes 1850 feet of wharfage. The chan
mel will connect with the east basin
channel, which, it is expected, will be
dredged by the government before the
lumber company completes its chan
mel.
The Consolidated Lumber company is
controlled by northern interests, which
also own more than thirty ships in the
lumber trade. The largest of these,
with a loading capacity of 100000 feet
of lumber, will be able to come up the
company's channel at high tide and
unload at it's wharf. The Consolidated
Lumber company does business
which means the handling of more than
$4,000, 600 feet of it's own lumber over
its wharves in the first year following
their completion
The other companies also do large
business, and the general move will
make Wilmington a great lumber CEN
ter within a comparatively short time
an advance which is only part of the
strides which Los Angeles county is
making in commercial lines.
The progress already made in the
lumber trade is well instanced by the
figures of record at San Pedro. The
lumber distribution at that port for
July of this year was practically half
the quantity received through the en-
tire year of 1898. In that year the
lumber received aggregated 93,75S,S1
feet, while for the single month of July,
1908, the total was AZ, 1884, 900 feet.
With this progress has come
marked improvement of handling sys-
TENS, and the move to the east basin
near Wilmington was inevitable on that
account. 1t brings the big lumber
steamers more than a mile and half
nearer the center of Los Angeles and
will cut out an expensive extra haul
ing. Hence time will be saved in load
ing and unloading and a money econ
omy effected in both wharfage and
transfer charges.