Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
WANT HARBOR
FOR 3 CITIES
CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS REPORT
OF COMMITTEE
IMPROVEMENT WILL COST UP
WARD OF $1o,ooo,ooo
When Completed Port Of San Pedro
viii Be One of the Finest Shell
ters In World for
Vessels
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frontage which can trebled by the
construction Of slips. making $1,000 feet in
all.
Land Is Available
Fourth-That there are in the inner or
Wilminton harbor about 81 acres not in
volved in litigation that can be improved
with the necessary municipal docks
wharves. warehouses and transportation IA
cilities and about 1000 feet of water 'front.'
age that can be developed to satisfy the
immediate demands of commerce, and about
35, 900 feet that probably will be recovered
to the public in the tide land suits.
We therefore recommend that for the
purpose of establishing at San Pedro and
Wilmington great commercial distribut-
ing and manufacturing center and the de-
veloping of both the inner and outer har-
bors, Los Angeles, San Pedro and VIII
mington should consolidate under one
municipal government.
That for the adequate improvement of the
inner and outer harbor your committee
recommends that there be at least So 0O0, 900
expended within the next ten years; that
within sixty days after the completion of
the consolidation OF the cities of Los An
geles, San Pedro and Wilmington the coun-
Gil OF the consolidated city adopt an ordi-
nance calling special election for the
purpose of submitting to the electors of the
consolidated city the proposition of author
izing s3,000000 harbor Improvement bonds
for making harbor improvements in ac-
eOr1dnce Win the recommendations ne1ein
made; and 50, cocoon within two years there
after, and to further particularize the
judgment of this committee that of the
S3000.000 thus provided for immediate i'm
proyement. we recommend that 81, 100000 be
devoted to the improvement of the outer
harbor and approaches thereto, as soon as
consolidation with San Pedro is effected,
and that 81 100000 be devoted to the i'm
provement of the inners harbor, above the
turning basin. and approaches thereto, as
gJaN4,
effected.
AS to the development of the outer harbor
at San Pedro, we recommend:
Urge Immediate Action
F'irst-That improvements on the 146 acres
in the outer harbor be Immediately made,
and upon other parts of the outer harbor
they become available, by the proper
dredging and filling and the building of
suitable slips with adequate docks, wharves
and warehouses to satisfy the immediate
and future demands Of commerce. together
with suitable approaches to be constructed
either by tunneling, leveling or cutting
down that portion of the bluff contiguous to
said 1i6 acres and extending around Timm's
point, or the building of a practical graded
surface road and connecting one all OF
said approaches with a macadamized high
way leading directly into the business dis
trict of that portion of the consolidated
city now known as Los Angeles.
Second-That every means within the
power of the consolidated city be used to
induce. the government to extend shoreward
the brealkwater so that the 1900-foot gap
shall be entirely closed in accordance with
the latest Recommendations of the govern
ment engineers SO that 1t may afford per-
feet protection to the lag acres.
Third-That when the city of Los
Angeles and San Pedro shall be con-
solidated into one municipality, that
the portion of the consolidated city, now
known as San Pedro, shall be made a
terminal point for all transcontinental
railways and shall have and receive all
of the rights, benefits and privileges ac-
corded to terminal points now in the
city of Los Angeles and the same rates
In and out of San Pedro as in ands out
of Los Angeles on state business, TAX
ing the question of mileage into con-
sideration.