Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-25
HARBOR FIGHTS WON
BY CITIES OVER SEAS
MANCHESTER DIGS CANAL TO
BRING SHIPS TO WHARVES
from Municipal Landing Place
and Plans to En-.
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Harbor improvements, harbor costs
and harbor revenues-the last by no
means the least of the important fig
ures to be CLEANED from port cities in
/ foreign countries-Shed new light on
/ the Importance of providing a Los An
geles harbor of equal Importance on
the Pacific coast within touch of the
great circle route by way of the
| Panama canal
Figures tell the story of cost and
| revenue, and the following figures are
from the latest available reports
LIVERPOOL-Harbo cost 1925 000,
| 900; annual revenue, $7.000,000; main
landing stage PAS feet long for trans
atlantic liners; total quay front, 81
miles; provision made for new docks,
with berths for four ships each HOO
feet long at one time, involving eX
penditure of S16,000,000 purely for flu
ture needs of commerce Tidal range
at Liverpool is thirty-one feet, making
necessary coping with great and eX
pensive problems not known at San
Pedro harbOr.
Great Harbor on Clyde
GLASGOW-HarbOr cost, 500, 900, 900;
annual revenue 100000; Quay 'front.'
age, ten miles: tidal range, eleven feet.
The "trickling Clyde" has been made,
through lowering the river bed "a and
-
mel accommodating vessels requiring 2S|
feet draft. The income is not so great
TrOpOTtiOnately as other ports because
the Clyde navigation has no warehouse
ing, railway cars or lighters. The trust
rot only pays investment interest ana
running expenses, but furnishes a sink
ing fund. Shipbuilding. which on the
Clyde is one of the worlds wonderful
industries, and last year was so per
cent greater than the total tonnage
built in American yards in the same
time-in fact, within tWo-thirds as
great as all the worlds shipbuilding
except that Of Great Britain-was de-
veloped solely because Glasgow had an
adequate conception of what a big har-
Dor means.
NCHESTER-Harbor cost, $S5,-
600 600; annual revenue, $500, 000
channel runs inland 3515 miles, and is
Is feet deep and go to $40 feet wide at
the top, with a lift Of 60l2 feet total
excavation of over 51,000,000 cubic yards
was necessary, more than half that of
the Suez canal; more than $4,000 YES
sells can pass the locks annually.
Manchester has had a tremendous
fight to get past Liverpool and build
her own harbor in opposition had been
the railroads and powerful allied inter-
ests, the shipping Sings, steamship lines
and other Liverpool influences, making
almost hopeless at the start. But Man
chester has brought the seaport into
her own limits, 80 miles, successfully
fighting her enabling act three times
through parliament in spite of the pow
erful interests seeking to stifle it.
The cost to get the act from parlia-
ment was $75O0OO, although not a PEN
ny of this was graft, The result has
been to build up great port where no
tort had existed. What this required
is shown in the fact that when the
ships owned in Liverpool would not
come up the channel to Manchester
the Manchester merchants built their
own ships and now have seventy large
steel vessels running to the Americas
and Africa.
HAMBURG-HarbOr cost, 500 1000
not counting expenditure for channel
improvements which is a government
matter; the tidal range is but 612 feet
Hamburg is free harbor, which has
proved Of CREST benefit in developing
manufacturing The total water area
is 1882 acres, with forty miles of quay