The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-04-05
SYNDICATE BUYS
PACIFIC ISLAND
VIM. wRIGLEY, JR., HEADS COM
pANY PURCHASING SANTA
CATALINA

of the q. biggest real estate deals
ever put over in California is now
an assured fact and details can be
furnished by the interested parties.
William Wrigley, Jr., manufac-
turer Of the famous "Wrigley's
spearmint," one of the chief stock
holders in the Chicago Cubs"
ball team and an officer and direc-
tor In a total of Is enterprises in
various parts of the United States,
is the head and controlling inter-
est In a company which has taken
over Santa Catalina island. The
purchase price Is close to $4,000
900 and several millions more will
be spent to make the island the
great show pace of the Pacific
coast.
Included in the transfer are
practically all of the $4,000 acres
of the island, the new $4,000 Ste.
Catherine hotel and its appurte-
nances, 10000 head of sheep, two
large steamers which ply between
San Pedro and the island, a fleet
of glass-bottom power boats and
other property Of the Santa Cata-
lima Island company.
The news is of interest to every
past, present and prospective visitor
to California, in fact it is of par
ticular interest to the country at
large, for it presages an era of ex-
pansian and development in our
home resorts in keeping with the
tendency to cultivate domestic
tourist travel which the war has
so strongly intensified.
The officers and directors of the
new Santa Catalina Island COM
pany are some of the most enter
prising business men in Los Ange-
les county. The general Manager
is Edward H. Seaver, who directed
the Fulton shipyards at San Pedro
during the war and who last year
built successful wooden ships at
astonishing speed for the govern
ment. Mr.. S%eaver's record as a
builder of ships is equalled by his
fame as an employer of labor, for
in all his period of service at San
Pedro there was no rumor Of labor
trouble.
David B~lankenhorn, a we'll
known Los Angeles business man,
is president of the new company.
He recently received his honorable
discharge from the U. S. army,
where he ranked as captain.
1--WE intend to make Santa Cata-
lima island the greatest summer
and winter resort in America" said
Mr.. Wrigley. Development will
progress as rapidly al possible and
when business warrants we will
put on more teamers. There is
room for a half million more cot
tages on the island and a second
new hotel is projected for early
completion. 1t Is my plan to make
this gem of the Pacific a resort
of such at~tractiveness that it will
be the mecca for visitors from all
parts of the country"
The glass-bottomed power boats,
already mentioned, make daily
trips over the marine gardens.
Through these boats the visitor
gets such sights of a great ocean
world of fish and vegetation as a
be had nowhere else. Here is a
realm peopled with brilliantly col
ored inhabitants, swimming
through forests of feathery verdi
ure. Huge tree-like ferns waver
and bend with the motion OF the
water. Great stalks of kelp touch
the bottom of the boat. From the
strange ''sea cucumber" that clings
to the ocean floor and is said to
be one of the lowest forms of ami
NAL life, to giant tuna fish and sea
bass, which are the delight of
sportsmen, the range of species,
size and appearance of these crea-
lures of the deep is utterly astound-
ing.
= Above water are scores of seal,
some of them weighing a ton, sun
ming themselves and their young
on the rocks.
Mr.. Wrigley, as the worlds
greatest chewing gum manufacture
err. has been said to be one of the
largest contributors to mems last
ing enjoyment among all who
make for creature comfort.
Just as we have always looked