Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-27
BIC INCREASE IN
PORT COMMERCE
San Pedro Duty Reports Show
Business Multiplied Eight
Times in Ten Years
BIG GAIN MADE IN EXPORTS
Forty-Five Thousand Tons Mer-
chandise Sent Out Dur
ing Past Year

SAN PEDRO, Aug. ga story OF
wonderful development in the COM
merce of this port is told by a COM
parison of the reports of the business
of the custom house for the fiscal year
ending June 30, which has just been
made public. compared with the report
of ten years ago. I:
The report shows that the lumber
receipts have been multiplied by five
during this period, the net tonnage by
eight and the number of vessels by
five. The difference in the ratio OF
increase in tonnage and number of
vessels is accounted for by the number
of larger vessels that are now running
to this port. Ten years ago there
were no big passenger liners running
regularly and the business was al
most entirely lumber handled by small
steam schooners and sailing vessels.
The best showing is the big increase
in the domestic exports. More than
40 900 tons of merchandise was Ship
ped out last year, which is seven
times the tonnage Of ten years ago.
Besides the shipment of low-grade
commodities like cement, asphalt
plaster, crude oil, structural steel and
brick, which amounted to practically
nothing ten years ago, is almost phe-
nomenaI. The report follows:
DOMESTIC IMPORTS
Domestic imports-San Pedro: Lun-
Der, $50 277,O 900 feet; shingles, 247,934,-
900 pieces; shakes, 4,39S,O00; lath, SO.-
591, 900; ties, 595, $40, 900; piles. 14'50S;
poles, 1906; doors, 12,513; pickets, 5S.-
900; spars, 10; posts, 57,951; sashes,
15O lumber trucks 1888; cross arms,
1900: panels, 836 tons; shocks, 271;
slaves, 303; paper, 949; grain, 31,S59;
flour, 3O54; beans, So; sugar, 2114; bar
rel stock, So; malt, 127; hair, 10; bark
(tan), 8; hops, 6; cheese, 172; excelsior,
oats, %; middlings, %; groats, 80; fer
tilizer 427; potatoes, 32O; teas, 20; sal
mon, 66; butter, Is; rice, 266; oyster
shells. 40; charcoal, SO; coal, 2144; pig
lead, Is; scrap iron, S92; wine, 8; syrup,
13; poultry food, 80; merchandise, 67,-
064; wool (bales), 316; tan bark
(sacks), 80; horses, SO; mules, "a; cat
(refined), $4,000 barrels; oil (refined),
1161 cases; milk, 400 cases; mescal,
barrel; salt, 534 bags; automobiles, IL.
! Domestic imports-Wilmington Lun1-
ber, 81, 1854 900 feet; shingles, 11,2O9,0O0
pieces; shakes. 10000; lath, 3,23O,oOO;
lumber trucks n; machinery, 3 tons.
Domestic exports-Wilmington Ium-
ber. 81 900 feet.
Domestic exports-San Pedro: Oh
(crude), 757 200 barrels; distillate 5000;
asphalt, 1885 tons; structural iron, 28Si
plaster, 351; corn, 20; butter, 10; ce-
ment, 14,27S; machinery, 10; axle
grease, 40; grain, II; COAL /; brick,
375; pipe, 43; hay, 129; bar iron. ; 20;
pig iron, 800; merchandise, 1882;
sheep, 734 head; lumber, $4,000 feet;
shakes, 10000 pieces; lime, $3.50 pounds;
enamelware, IL cases; automobiles, 3;
structural iron, 1890 pounds; fire
brick, AZ, 300 pounds; common brick, 1o,-
900; piles, So; scrap iron, "a tons.
Arrivals-Steamers, 2O62; schooners,
1888; barks, / barkentines, 16; barges,
2: tugs, 26; United States vessels, So;
dredgers, l; yachts, 1; passengers. 139,-
710; seamen, steam 63,S1S sail 1S46; net
tonnage, steam 1,3SS,247, sail 1885,
Passengers departed, 144,177.
FOREIGN IMPORTS
Foreign imports-Logs, 1866 piecess
lumber, 695S pieces; lumber, 141,OoO
feet; sugar, 1858 pounds; nitrate, 49,
541, $40; fertilizer, 2.405,7S0; magnesia,
sc, 800; barium, 11,000; coke, 858,30O;
bleaching powder, $4,000; chloride or
lime, 23,7O0; ammonia, 1925; EPSON
salts, 10, ,92O; potash, 241S; zinc, S4,7OO;.
zinc chloride, II, OBJ; bone meal, 1925
$50; steel bars, 1,71S760; guano, 420,S2O;I
oxalic acid, 1928; sulphur phosphate.
122, 900; linoleum, so bales; books
(cases), l; stout, 1926; whisky, 1925;
gin, $50; Vermouth, 434; ginger ale, 20O;
enamelware, 203; olive oil, so; orange
bitters, 25; cheese, 1; spears, z; bean
oil, 1000; mineral water, S35; beer, $50;
advertising matter, 8; coffee (essence)s
/; ale and stout, 250; metal, 8; SOAP
271; vegetable oil, 2; sardines, $50;
caustic, drums; granite, 46 crates;
bananas, 200 crates; fish plates, III
bundles; soap stock, 20 barrels; crucl-
bles, 50 barrels; taquilla, barrels;
printing press and supplies, "a pack
ages; currie powder, L; vinegar, 10;
vegetable sauces, 8; fish in tins, IL;
preserved ginger, 3; oil and vinegar,
235: pottery, IA; baskets, 1886; household
goods, IA; merchandise, 1898; lumber
(samples), l bundle; bananas, 34.66O
punches; steel rails, 1908 pieces; steel
bars, 12,155 pieces; steel plates, 12I
pieces; fertilizer, 44S tons; pig iron,
2404; coke, 1924 steel blooms, 349; steel
bars, 563; chloride of lime, so; mer-
chandise, $780, automobiles, 4; nitrate
of soda, 23,O39 bags; sulphur, 1884;
sulphur phosphate, ATS; fertilizer, TO-
500; Coffee 547 ochre, 1876 casks;
napthaline, 1877; EPSON salts, 260; alum,
so; whiskey, 16; whiting, 1928; oxalic
acid, 20; empty sacks. 1910; tools
(chests), 1; piano, 1; cocoanuts, 80
bags; sauces, 100 tubs; turtles, IL.
Passengers 116, departed 1872.
Foreign exports-Asphalt, S59 tons;
plaster, 495; coal, S4; roof paper, 20;
merchandise, $50; household goods,
2744 pounds; machinery, 11,525 pounds;
plaster, 400 bags; automobiles, 1;
household goods, 10 cases; kiln clay,
3 cases; pressed brick, 1888 packages;
oranges 2O3S boxes; catsup, 25 barrels.
Foreign Vessels-Arrived: Steamers
a. ships 1, cruisers /.