Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-02
CITY ENTERS A
NEW GREAT ERA
APPROVAL OF HARB0R LINES
MAKES DESTINY SECURE
REAL ESTATE WILL BE RICHLY
BENEFITED
With Harbor Complete, Los Angeles
Must Take Rank Among Mighty
Ports of the Worlds
Commerce
BY JAMES WYNKOOP

When the secretary of war approved
the inner lines for San Pedro harbor'
the seaport of Los Angeles and OF the
greatest city in the southwest, he made
secure the destiny of one of the most
far-reaching enterprises which have
ever been undertaken in this wonderful
land of opportunity.
To have a harbor of it's own, har-
bor that can receive the mtghtiest yes
sells which steam through the seas OF
all nations, is to invest in Southern
California the strength of international
commerce, an endowment of which
only a few American cities can boast.
BY land Los Angeles has long been
connected with the world, its maritime
commerce being only that of an ordi-
nary port. But now, with every ODD
stacle removed, the proud capital OF all
the southwest is to command It's run
share of the worlds commerce through
its own magnificent harbor.
Marching onward with the assurance
of greatness with which it is blessed
by nature, Los Angeles has overcome
the forces of opposition confronting IL
In the stirling fight for peerless mar
Dor from whence its people might look
out upon the wide seas and beckon to
the world.
This world has already seen and
heard. 1t has been the worlds pleas
vitation. The heavy-laden prows of
commerce are pointed this way. The
great harbor of the southwest has ma
terialized.
Permanent Wealth to Realty
Out of the triumph shall come to real
estate golden harvest, wealth that
shall be permanent and appreciative.
To attempt to reckon the benefit to be
reaped through San Pedro would be
impossible. Patriots can only grasp
in part what the harbor really means
to this community.
Present tracts are destined to become
settled and new tracts and colonies
started. With a good harbor to en-
courage moderate rates, products of
the soil will return to the grower far
more than at this period.
The harbor will enhance values in
land, lots and the fruits of labor and
the soil Real estate is to acquire the
greatest profits, for to real estate they
belong and in real estate all are in
terested.
Los Angeles and Southern California
have outgrown the railroads. To these
must now be added the common car
riers of the seas. To cope with its
engines of energy and progress it was
seen. that Southern California had to
have, close to Los Angeles, a port
capable of handling the commerce OF
many states. At San Pedro was found
the nearest approach to natural har-
Dor.
Therefore, with the work already
done and that which remains to be
done San Pedro is to loom up proudly
as the commanding gateway of COM
merce to all the seas from the great
southwest.
Los Angeles is the queen city of this
vast community by rights Of gravity.
AS the water flows just as surely must
flow the floods OF commerce and pop
ulation.
Los Angeles is Ideal City
A city can be laid out on noun
tain, but no one will abide there. Lay
out a city on the plains, central to the
surrounding watersheds, convenient to
all tributaries, and skirting the sea
through a good harbor. Then witness
its grown from a little Spanish town
to a metropolis famed the wide world
over.
Los Angeles is a city in a thousand,
one of the mighty cities of the nations
wealth. Its position geographically is
ideal. Its accomplishments are un-
numbered and its opportunities with
out bound.
Through it's own harbor at San Pc
dro Los Angeles shall acquire new
wealth and prestige. The tall bluffs
that flank the water front shall point
the way, standing sentry-like in the
glory of the sunrise, when a greater
city receives the light of a new COM
mercial era.