Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-21
SPLENDID HARBORS
OF GREAT VALUE
DIRECT CONNECTION WITH
PORTS OF ALL NATIONS
TREMENDOUS VOLUME OF RUsl-
NESS AT SAN PEDRO
Redondo Now a Port of Entry--HeaVy
Receipts of Lumber and All
Other Supplies for the
People

The steamship ports for Southern
California embrace the splendid har-
bors at San Pedro, Redondo, Venice,
Long Beach, Newport and San Diego.
These harbors are of the greatest
value to the business interests of Los
Ships from all parts of the world land
their cargoes on the WharveS and
heavy consignments are made to dis
tant shores by our manufacturers and
wholesalers and by the great mine pro-
ducers in this and adjoining states.
The April visit OF the great fleet of
United States battleships gave hun
dreds OF thousands of people an OPP
portunity to personally view the sew
eral harbors near Los Angeles and the
advantages of our waterway facilities
must have been fully comprehendeu
even by the most casual observer.
Every year a tremendous volume of
business Is transacted on the coast.
The figures for 1907 as applying to San
Pedro harbor will indicate the impor-
tance of the steamship business.
During 1907 there arrived at San
Pedro 1341 steamers, S51 coastwise sail
ine vessels and four foreign ships,
having an aggregate capacity of S40,-
llg tons. These vessels carried in
g-sw 32,1S3 men, an average OF 1882
men for each month. The business OF
the port shows an increase of II per
cent over that of the previous year,
which is the largest in its history.
The list of woodstuffS from northern
ports and discharged on the docks
from shipment to the western states
and territories and Mexico includes
469, $4,000 feet of what is classed as
lumber, 16O,S1S,000 shingles, 3,602,00C
stakes, 35,520,000 laths, 54,0S5 poles,
1910 piles, 30,51S posts and 354,2S2 ties.
Computed in feet of lumber, the guam
tity contained in a piece one foot
square and one inch thick being reck-
oned as one foot, the recapitulation for
the twelve months shows an aggregate
of 507,554,000 feet. For 1906 the fig
ures were 451, 1000 feet. showing an
increase of 56,240, 900 feet. The value of
the woodstuffs received in 1907, at the
average wholesale price of $25 per
thousand feet, is $12,6SS,S50; for 1906,
$11, 1,182,750, showing an Increase during
1907 of about $1,500,000 In addition to
the lumber receipts, 3O,7S1 tons of mer-
chandise, 1920 tons of grain, 2079
tons of box shocks, 1882 tons of -four,
344 tons Of sugar, 5000 tons of paper,
9447 sheep and 2031 head of cattle were
received from vessels landing at this
port. The oil receipts were 5S4,2Ss bar
rels.
Four foreign vessels arrived from
European and Oriental ports. bringing
from Europe 50,596 barrels of cement.
and from Japan 1,63S,325 feet of oak
timber. Last July the German aux
iliary clipper ship, Rickmer, the larg-
est wind jammer" afloat, arrived
from Hamburg with 10000 barrels of
cement. This five-masted vessel, 4S0
feet in length and drawing a fraction
less than twenty-five feet, anchored In
the inner harbor.
The shipments out during the year
include 22,217 tons OF merchandise and
1896 tons of cement. OF passenger
traffic the arrivals numbered 111,07O
and the departures 109,270. There were
about 5000 men employed in the lum-
ber yards and along the wharves, most
of them receiving $2.75 a day of nine
hours.
There were exported within the year
3,525, 900 pounds of fresh fish, valued at
SIZE, ZOO; Holsters, $4,000 pounds, and
dried abalones, 10000 pounds. There
are $50 men and 45 boats (power and
said engaged in the fishing industry at
this port and vicinity.
The expenditure OF several million
dollars in improving the inner and
outer harbors by the United tSates
government and by private corpora
fions continued throughout the past
year.
Port Los Angeles, at Santa Monica,
was recently abandoned as port OF
entry and a branch of the customs
house was established at Redondo. Ii
is planned to convert the long wharf
at the old port into pleasure resort