Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-25
THIRD HARBOR
IS POSSIBILITY
AT SAN PEDRO
FACILITIES MAY BE MADE
FINEST IN WORLD
BENEFITS WILL BE REAPED BY
ENTIRE POPULATION
Consolidation Initiates Sheme Far
Reaching in Importance to Worlds
Shipping and to Every Inter-
est Directly Concerned
BY GEORGE E. HARRISON

BY GEORGE B. HARRISON
In addition to the inner and outer
harbors at Wilmington and san Pedro
practically a third great hafpor Is
feasible, as shown just outside Ierhhhal
island by the map This is a PROPOSE
tion to be worked out some time in the
future. following the immediate ue-
velopment Of the outer harbor' as
planned by the consolidation commit
tees. and the enlargement Of the indus
trial or inner harbor. 1t is none the
less possible and important, and SHOWS
the possibilities of San Pedro haroor
beyond the plans so far developed.
The map is more or less idealisuc,
portraying what may be MADE OF the
harbor under public control, compre-
hending the dredging inside the harbor
lines. the extension of the breakWater
and the construction of great slips and
docks. In addition to the public work
there are great concessions already
granted to private interests, such as
the Pacific Wharf and Storage com
pany opening into the channel Just
back of Deadman's island, the Miner
fill with its facilities, for the Union
Oil company and other large corpora
lions. the Huntington Salt Lake and
other improvements, and at the north
end of Wilmington bay great layout
of lumber yards, including the finest
equipped and largest yard in the west
already arranged for by the Paclhc
Lumber company, and the extensive
yards of the Consolidated and other
companies.
All these will go to make one of the
finest and most modern harbors in the
world barring none, if consolidation OF
the municipal interests involved is ac-
complished to pave the way for harbor
progress. And this harbor will be com
pleted with total expenditure of about
$25 000, 900, to bring Los Angeles, the
unified city, up to the level of consid-
Grafton with Liverpool which has spent
1925. 600 600; with New York, with its
cost of over 100000 900; Glasgow, $780, !
600 900: Manchester. $S5000.000; Ant |
werp old and new 500, 100000; Ham
burg, S100,000,000, and others of like
cost. And in low expense of mainte-
nance, in opportunity of enlargement to
meet the inevitable growth in shipping
that will come in lack of engineering
difficulties to overcome, such as great |
tidal range or shifting silt or sand, the
harbor at the port of Los Angeles ranks |
in the highest class
To make San Diego harbor equal to
the harbor planned through the report
of the Los Angeles consolidation COM |
mittee would cost $12,000,000; to givel
p hdrbOr equally as complete in every
respect at San Francisco would cost
considerably more than that amount. |
At sea, less than seVenty-tve miles /
from the heart of San Pedro, runs the
great circle route. which the great
transoCeanic steamship lines will take
between the Panama canal and the
ports of the Orient Inland from San
Pedro reach lines to vast country /
which will demand importations sufft |
cient to impel the ocean steamships to !
stop at the port of Los Angeles and /
rich enough in resources and products /
to give them outgoing cargoes.
Only Initiative Needed
As Capt. Fries says, there is at the
harbor Los Angeles asks opportunity
to improve ample and satisfactory
anchorage and opportunities for great
commercial that is needed to build
up a tremendous shipping except the
whipping into shape. This is provided
for through the consolidation elections.
A study of the accompanying map
shows a possible new channel made
by filling along what is now Terminal
beach and by building outside of this
a public fill. This would allow prac-
tically an additional harbor without in
the least Cramping the magnificent
possibilities of the san Pedro harbor
frequently referred to as big enough
for the naVieS of the world When
this is reached in the order of harbOr
development it will also be planned
to extend the breakWatcr down past
Long Beach for four miles. an under
taking easily feasible because of the
gradual slope outward of the ocean
bottom Then the breakwater will in
close an ideal commercial harbor,
which viii be improved with the most
modern facilities for handling the BUSH
ness brought and carried away by the
biggest ships ahoat
All that viii mean . great population
around the harbor and up toward
Watts and Gar5cua, great i0bbiDa
headquarters and all the other mdfea-
lions Of handling large tonnage rlue-
tered around the municipal ware
houses. Better than this the open
ing up of a real harbor viii afford.
through attractive rates and the IA
cihties for touching a tremendous out
side population, a manufacturing base
This simply means opportunity fer ON
ploymenU in lines not now known of
thousands of men at much higher
standard Of wages than is new possible
in Southern California.
And there you have the real reason
for the haIbOr, for consolidation and
for the voters approval of the report
Of the Los Angeles committee as unan-
imously as it has been approved by all
to whom submitted A public harbor
means an opening Of nOodgate for
business at a time and place where the
business is actually storming to get
through; IL means doing this in a way
that will distribute the benefits among
thousands instead Of a few. The
ranCher inc laDOrer, the business man.
the corporatiOn-eVeTy body and every
interest i'm southern California and
thousands waiting for the chance to
come will pet 1FlfFf 47a l,.,,l,r