Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-06
COMMITTEE TO
VISIT HARB0R
MEMBERS WILL BE GUESTS OF
CAPTAIN FRIES
ENTIRE DAY WILL BE DEVOTED
TO STUDY OF CONDITIONS
Fifteen Charged with Duty OF Mapping
Out Plans for Consolidation VIII
Gather Information
Thursday

4 The fifteen members of the Los An
geles consolidation committee VIII pe
the guests of Capt. Amos A. Fries on
a tour of the entire harbor district
Thursday. They will begin at LonS
Beach and inspect every detail as IaT
as the brea1water Captain FRIES wiz WI,
have a number of maps showing the
harbor as it is at present, anu I IIe
effect of possible improvements. ne
and A. p. Fleming, secretary OF the
committee. will explain the features
of the trip.
: The COMMITTEES will leave Los An
yeles at 9 o'clock and make tull DAY
study of the harbor. A launch VIII De
taken at Long Beach, and the lnIanu
trip will be taken to Wilmington, the
Salt Lake drawbridge, the Craig snip
building plant and the work of dradg-
ing the channel of the Consolidated
Lumber company being inspected on
the way.
Wilmington's municipal work ana
the possibilities of the inner haroor
will be gone over, including all phases
of the west basin. The outer harbor
will be studied thoroughly with view
to the slips and fills which may be
NEEDED for deep draught vessels. F'u-
ture facilities which may be acquired
through an extension of the break
water will receive the close attention
of the committee.
Military defense of the harbor, so
far as Captain Fries is permitted TO
make public any information, will De
gone over. The party may climb the
San Pedro hills to get a view OF the
possibilities of the land lying between
the harbor cities and Los Angeles.
The trip has been planned to give
the committee the fullest possible con-
ception of the harbor situation as it is
at present and the need for a large
development These possibilities were
studied out by the United States en-
gineer's office more than two years
ago, and new features which have
since developed have been carefully
considered. Consequently Captain Fries
has at hand a vast amount of data
which will be of value to the CONSOLE
dalton committee.
Much Work CheapIy Done
1.-THE four years of dredging by the
government in the inner harbor have
amounted. to 100000 yards, and the
average cost of this has ben $50 cents
per pard,' said Captain Fries yester-
day. There are still $500 yards OH
the present work, and this will be COM
pleted within a year Some of the
dredging has been in hard material, but
that part of it has been finished. The
dredge has averaged $1,000 to $4,000
yards a month";
The cost of dredging in Wilmington
harbor runs exceptionally low as fig
ures average for that character of
work. Even with the cost of the
dredge itself included the average on
the work would only be about IL cents
a yard.
A government bulletin has just been
issued on the municipal harbor i'm
proyements at Frankfort-on-the-M Main,
Germany, a city equivalent in size to
Los Angeles, where $17,000,000 is being
expended on the city's east harbor.
Its COST says Consul General Rich
ard Guenther. will be As, 600 marks,
or nearly $11500,000, and the land
bought for industrial purposes by the
city brings the total to 900 marks,
or about $17,0OO,OO0. The harbor area
comprises 290 hectares, or 1853 acres,
with river frontage of 312 kilometers
(22 miles).
"Of the 30 hectares of land belong
ing to the harbor 25S will be set aside
for building purposes. Two asphalt
factories, two Touring mills and one
brewery already have been determined
upon. The city has sold already about
$1,000,000 worth of these lands.
frankfort was formerly only a har-
Dor of the River Main, but through
the canalization of this river it has
virtually become a Rhine harbor. Up
to 1887 the river Main was not navi-
gable near it's mouth at Mainz; but a
canal was then Constructed. Today
Rhine vessels up to 1900 tons capacity
can proceed to Frankfort The ton
mage traffic at Frankfort increased from
100000 tons in 1887 to 100000 tons in
1906. Among the fifty-three Rhine har-
bors Frankfort now occupies the fifth
place in point of tonnage"