Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-23
ARE TO AUCTION
Off FRANCHISES
SAN PEDRO TRUSTEES GET
MORE APPLICATIONS
INDIVIDUALS ASK FOR MINOR
CONCESSIONS
Requests for Saloon Licenses on East
Side Are Laid Over-Citizens
Attend Meeting of the
Board

SAN PEDRO, June 22.-After grant
ing the withdrawal of the applications
for 5000 feet of wharf franchises and
the flfty-year railroad franchise at
Mormon island the city trustees today
received applications for eight wharf
franchises covering over 1000 teet
around the whole Of the holdings OF
the Outer Harbor Dock and WharI
company, which is known as the Miner
concession in the outer harpor. Ihe
applications are made in the names Of
John e. Brada, ]. McPeck. Lyman
Stewart, Randolph H. Miner, Giles
Kellogg, Gervaise Purcell Frank A.
Garbutt and j. M. Rust, stockholders
in the company. The franchises are TO
run for twenty years. work 10 Resin
in four months and be compleeod IN
three years, per cent of the revenue
after the first five years to go to the
city The wharves are planned to De
fifty feet wide, extending from the
bulkhead line and to encircle the en-
tire concession of 153 acres excepting
the 1000 feet held by the city OF san
Pedro.
The trustees instructed the clerk to
advertise the eight franchises for sale
at auction on July "a at 10 o'clock a. IN.
To Build WharVes
ATTORNEY Il. r. Welch of the Union
Oil company accompanied Mr.. Miner
and his engineer, Gervaise PurcelI'
today and told of the proposition TO
complete Immediately the reclamation
project and to build the WharVes for
the accommodation of deep sea vessels
including those of the oil fleet of tho
Union Oil company. He stated that
the dredger now being built by the
Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf COM
pany would be in operation by July
and that the contract for the rock jet
ties to hold the sand had already been
let. The wharves were to be substan-
tiallv built on reinforced concrete pill
ing at cost of about $50,000 per 1000
feet of wharf.
Judge Gibson, Frank Karr and
George r. Pillsbury, representing the
Pacific Coast Steamship company, the
Pacific Electric Land company, the
Los Angeles Interurban Railway COM
pany and the San Pedro Lumber com
pany, appeared before the board urg-
ing immediate action to close up, va
cate and abandon several streets in
the northern part of the city running
through lands owned by the appli-
cants. The streets are Orizaba, north
of Santa Cruz, parts of Ancon, Front
and all of Newport and Johnstone
streets and a portion of O'Farrell
street.
Delay Ordered
Although Judge Gibson pleaded for
immediate action the trustees deter
mined to take a week to investigate
the proposal. A side agreement was
offered to the applicants to deed the
city a sixty-foot street extending from
the northern end of Palos Verdes
around the hill to the bay
This proposal was part of the pro-
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Electric Garden line in its entry into
the city, the application of a week
ago for a steam railroad franchise
from Thirteenth and Palos Verdes
streets northerly to the bay being
taken up. Trustee Peck proposed to
give it the franchise provided it would
pave the street as far north as Santa
Cruz streets. This proposal not being
accepted, the whole matter was laid
over for another week.
The application of the Southern Cali
fornia Lumber company for wharf
franchise over 29S feet of frontage on
the east side of the channel was laid
over for a week, the trustees stating
that they wanted to retain a portion of
this frontage for public landing and
open up if possible street through
the lumber yard.
Saloon Licenses
Both the applications for saloon Ii
censes on the East side were laid over,
Trustee Peck endeavoring to deny
them, but the other members wishing
to defer action.
Many protests were received against
these applications. The resolutions
passed at last nights mass meeting of
citizens, and the protest of the Los
Angeles harbor commission, all against
the proposed Mormon island grant, were
filed and the request of withdrawal of
the Bannings and the Southern Pacific
granted. No reference was made to
the injunction against the trustees is
sued yesterday by Judge Wilbur.
Other routine business kept the five
members comprising the board in their
chairs for nearly three hours, while the
hall was crowded with interested citi-
zens, who have determined to attend
the council meetings in the future to
see what is being done.