Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-25

mately fourteen miles of dockage by
1t, some $S0,0000 900 to 100000 900, and
it will be noted that she is providing
for the future in constructing 1000-foot
slips. She already has a forty-foot
channel leading into her harbor.
1t would be possible to go on at con-
siderable length, including Boston har-
Dor, with its two new docks now build
ing, and which will measure $50 feet
long by 240 feet wide, with thirty-flVe
and forty foot channels / might go on
and cite several others, as we'll as for
eign ports, cost of construction, i'm
provements, etc, but these three prln-
cipal home ports will serve a striking
example of what harbors are worth to
cities, when they will go ahead and
So nd hundreds of millions to bring
about a condition that cannot even
compare favorably with the possibil-
ties of San Pedro harbOr at the COM
paratively insignificant cost Of 10000
900. which Los Angeles IL ready and
anxious to spend, and at which figure
she will not stop when more is neCes-
sary to keep pace with the demands
made upon her.
And can anyone deny that Los An
geles has done things; actually accom-
plished results in almost any direction
she has extended her hand? Decidedly
not. Still, with all that, isn't it a fact
that Los Angeles has had her principal
growth in the past fifteen years? What
has she had to offer the prospective set
tier other than climate and surround
ing country? That brought the people
in droves. How about it since they
have begun advertising the owens
river aqueduct? The ratio of increase
in population has been relatively great
err Withal it has not appealed so very
strongly to the merchant beyond the
,,oe 1a1 tf-1K ~ WI n well
came over to not only take his chances,
but to make them-the manufacturer,
the Warehouseman and OtherS-and
largely because Los Angeles did not
have a harbor. STILL they did come,
and they came to stay, and it has been
proved out that the majority of them
are the livest kind of wires They see
a long way ahead of their noses; they
know that with conditions as they are
today for every one who comes over to
stay during this year it is safe to figure
on two for next year. and the same
ratio of increase is quite probable for
the next ten or fifteen years
Statistics will prove that from 10 to
30 per cent of the population of these
United States much prefer to be some
where in the neighborhood of water,
and strange as this may seem, COM
paratively few of them cannot but as
SOcldIe water WIN IL IldIDbI VI SuIil6
sort. Allowing this, Los Angeles very
existence proves her ability as an adj
vertiser of the very first caliber, when
she can build up a population such as
she has, and has never been able to
hold out the harbor S an inducement.
All right. then, take Los Angeles as
she is and give her the advantage San
Pedro will afford her as harbor and
blind man should be able to see
million inhabitants in from six to ten
years time, or l might even say less. So
much from the land side. incidentally,
what is or was the cause of Chicago's
growth? Enterprise competition and
the fact that she was in the way of
progress. Well, that is Los Angeles
with a harbor.
Los Angeles Can Do It
BY way of proof that Los Angeles Is
in the way" isn't it a fact that she
can be reached by rail more easily
than can any other Pacific coast city?
Isn't the mileage shorter to active
eastern sections? Then how about
the Panama canal? If it was a matter
of accommodating a half-dozen or
dozen vessels, it stands to reason the
government would never sink $200000,-
600 to $780, 900, 900 in the enterprise. l
venture the Panama canal will at once
rival the Suez canal in the matter of
tonnage, and it happens that the line
of travel to the Orient is just seventy
miles removed from San Pedro harbor.
Then doesn't it also reason out that
this harbor will be made a port of
call right from the jump? Isn't it a
fact that even now, and in the past,
assurances have been made that just
so soon as San Pedro would properly
equip it's harbor there are several lines
anxious to come in and make this a
port of call? OF course there is always
the ready answer that the harbor at
present is bottled up, and San Pedro
in itself cannot afford to make such
improvements as are necessary to ac-