Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-10
MEN Of AFFAIRS
URGE THE BONDS
Strong Open Letters to Voters
Favor Harbor and Power
Propositions
AROUSE PUBLIC INTERESTS
Carrying Through of Projects
Is Business Necessity
to This City
AROUSE PUBLIC INTERESTS

Live interest centers in the Los An
geles harbor bond election, which is to
engage the attention of the electors
of this great and growing commercial
and industrial community on Monday.
April 10. Bankers. manufacturers.
wholesalers and jobbers, merchants and
every individual who has the further
development of Los Angeles at heart,
will undoubtedly cast his vote in the
affirmative on the bond issue PROPOSE
tion. Many men of affairs in the city
have given the subject special consider
alton and they are enthusiastically in
favor of the proposition Following are
two open letters to the voters written
by John r. Mathews, vice president of
the Central National bank of Los An
geles, and F. P. Gregson, traffic man
ager of the Associated Jobbers asso-
citation, which clearly set forth some
of the advantages that Will accrue If
the bond issue carries:
ITO the voters of Los Angeles: In my
judgment the following advantages
will accrue to Los Angeles by an af-
firmative vote authorizing the issuing
of bonds for harbor improvements and
the building of a power plant on the
aqueduct: After a personal inspection
of five days of the Los Angeles aque-
duct and its possibilities for water and
power ! am fully convinced that no en-
terprise has ever been started that VIII
prove of such great and lasting bene-
fit not only to the city but to all Of
Southern California as the water pow
er that will be acquired Los Angeles
now has the nucleus for a great manu-
featuring city. With abundance of
water and cheap power, as I feel conf |
dent we will have. this will prove to be
one of the largest manufacturing cit
ies in the southwest
add to this the thousands of acres
commencing at the head OF the San
Fernando valley. taking in all east to
Shorb station thence in a circle south |
east to the Los Nietos and Compton |
country, and all west from Los An |
geles to Rendondo and Santa Monica, |
which will be highly watered, and we
will have of this great circle verita- |
bic garden. With the increase In pro-
ducts of the soil occasioned thereby |
and with the manufacturing industries
and mineral possibilities developed |
through water and power acquired |
through the bonds. If we add the cit
rus fruits, cereals and mining products
now produced contiguous to this city,
IT will need but a slight stretch of
Imagination to tell us the necessity of
the great final need Of harbor facil-
flies to handle the immense products
of the above named circle the pro-
ductiveness of which will be increased
by the water and power thus given.
and afford ample room for vessels from
all countries to handle the business.
yours very truly,
JOHN r. MBATHEWS,
"Vice President Central National Bank
of Los Angeles"
ITO the voters of Los Angeles: From
my standpoint, as a traffic man, II Is
absolutely necessary that the harbor
be improved, Notwithstanding how
much money is involved, for the har
Dor is essential for the protection Of
our commerce.
"There is a bill now pending In con-
gress, amendatory of the Hepburn act,
which will eliminate that provision Of
the long and short haul clause which
permits a railroad to make less
charge for a longer distance than for
a shorter where competitive conditions
make it necessary to do so, and while
this bill may fail Of enactment there
are a number of cases which have been
presented before the interstate COM
.inerce commission during the past year
where interior cities-Spokane, Reno
and Phoenix-have petitioned for prac-