Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-06
WILL
DREDGE HARBOR
Tacoma Company Wins Contract
for Cutting West and East
Basins at San Pedro
$4,000 is NOW AVAILABLE
War Department Accepts Bid for
Inner Channels at 9.25 Cents
a Cubic Yard

The contract for dredging the west
and east basins in the inner harbor
has been let.
The main channel of the Los An
geles harbor will be dredged by the
government dredger to a depth of 30
feet.
Next Saturday the deepening of the
outer harbor channel from the 30-foot
contour line to a point just north or
Deadman's island will be advertised.
Bids on this work will be opened No
vember Z. Bids received some time
ago have all been rejected.
A draWbridge will be built over the
channel into the west basin, which will
be a duplicate Of the Salt Lake draw
bridge across the entrance to Long
Beach harbor, save for its double
tracking by the Southern Pacific ana
Pacific Electric railroads.
The agreement of the railroads 10
replace their stationary bridges. with
drawbridges and the dredging of the
inner harbor channels, the contract for
which has been let, opens the west
basin of the harbor to navigation. The
stationary bridges of the railroads
heretofore have barred all access by
deep water vessels to this body OF
water.
Hundreds of acres are covered by
the basin and It's opening creates some
valuable water frontage.
Capt, w. P. Stokey, United States
engineer here, has just received In
structions from Washington as to the
procedure to be taken in reference to
the bids received a short time ago.
The bid of the Tacoma Dredging
company for the dredging of the in
aIr 40
accepted. The figures were 9.25 cents
per cubic yard, with 8 per cent OFF II
it is allowed three months in which
to begin the work. The war depart
ment decided to accept this companys
bid and the time of contract will begin
when the government has notified the
company of the approval of it's bid:
The appropriation for the entire
work is about $4,000, available for each
of the two channels. There are about
1900. 900 yards to be dredged II the
channels are made 200 feet wide. A
depth of twenty feet is required. II
the appropriation does not hold out,
however, they will not be made 200
feet wide.
For the deepening of what is known
as "Section A. the outer harbor chan
mel, to 80 feet, there will be about
S140, 900 available and as the bids sub
mitted would more than exhaust this
amount they had to be rejected. If
better bids are not obtained, as the
government believes, its own dredge'
the San Pedro, will do the work.
The government, meanwhile, will put
it's dredger to work on deepening
"Section B" to 80 feet. This channel
is 200 feet wide from Deadman's is
land to the Salt Lake wharves, and
the full width of the main channel
north to the extent that the appropri-
alton will carry it. More than $4,000
will be available for this work.
The railroads plan to build their
drawbridge over the entrance to the
west basin. of bascule lift type. with
a clear span of 18O feet. The bridge
is to be completed twelve months from
the time the war department accepts
the plans and as it will be built dag
onaliy across the channel it will be
1876 feet wide. This is considered suf-
ficient, inasmuch as there will be one
drawbridge for two railroads instead
of two.