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 "^Y 
 
Wt7£D BY rHE 
 
 oard of Trade 
 of San Pedro 
 California ^^^-^^^^^ 
 
 STLF ESTER GIVJLTNET, 
 President 
 
 FRANK BURNS, 
 
 Secretary 
 
 The City of San Pedro is twenty mites south of Los Angeles. 
 Southern Pacific Ry. (the direct route) runs 6 trains daily. 
 Salt Lake Route via East San Pedro runs 8 trains daily. 
 California Pacific Ry. (Traction Co.) Electric cars e'very hour. 
 Pacific Electric Ry. to be built soon. 
 
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 THE approach from the sea is clear and free from danger. The distance 
 from Point Conception to San Pedro is 120 miles, for all coasting 
 trade coming from the north, and the principal trade along this coast 
 now, is the coasting trade with San Francisco and northern ports." 
 "If a foreign trade is developed at the Southern California deep 
 water harbor, this trade must approach the harbor either from the open sea or 
 from the sijutli, coming around Cape Horn, or through the Isthmian Canal." 
 
 "Its western boundary is distinctly marked by Point Firmin, while its east- 
 ern limit is somewhat indeterminate ; it is, however, practically not more than 
 12 miles wide and less than 5 miles deep. The heaviest undulations of the ocean, 
 which might otherwise reach San Pedro from the southward from almost unlim- 
 ited ocean distances, are first impeded in their northward progress toward the 
 coast by the shores of San Clemente Is'and, approximately 20 miles south of 
 Santa Catalina Island. This last-named island, the nearest point of which is 
 18 miles from San Pedro, acts as a more or less efficient barrier to storm waves 
 generated far out to the southward. San Pedro Bay is protected on the west 
 by Point Firmin and San Pedro Hill. It is protected on the north and northeast 
 by the general shore line." 
 
 "The entrance to San Pedro Harb ir is an artificial channel between jetties 
 700 feet apart, the opening facing the southeast and lieing a little east of Point 
 Firmin." 
 
 "The Harbor, as now utilized, extends 9000 feet from the mouth of the 
 'nd 
 water area of about 2 square miles. 
 
 jetties to the lower end of Wilmington Lagoon, a tidal Hat basin having a high 
 
 -F,.vtract from Report of U. S. Govt. Board of Biigiiicers. 
 
 adojvii 
 the tnyslieal 
 ''Slraits of Ania>:' 
 from 
 
 Pt. Conception 
 to ivhere 
 — A magic Isle 
 'like so»ie 
 sleeping monster 
 adrift 
 out at sea, 
 a mountain range 
 twenty tivo miles long- 
 a bit of 
 
 Southern California 
 anchored 
 off shore'' 
 
 — A nature's hreak'd'ater 
 is set ifi frotit of 
 the Gibraltar 
 of our 
 
 Mediterranean 
 that guards 
 the Harbor of 
 the Naples of 
 our Italy. 
 
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 Vw . ZJ^oJ-J^^ 
 
 Here — 
 
 Nature 
 
 did licr best 
 
 and 
 
 the Government 
 
 did 
 
 the rest — 
 
 to make 
 
 San Pedro 
 
 ''The Harbor City'" 
 
 of the 
 
 drcat 
 
 Soidliwest 
 
 which 
 of anv 
 
 THE act under which this Board is appointed provides for a deep- 
 water harbor for commerce and of refuge. Under the provisions of 
 the law, a deep-water harbor is understood to be a harbor which can 
 be used by vessels of the deepest draft. Merchant vessels drawing 
 from 26 to 28 feet are now common, while steamers have been built 
 when fully loaded, will draw 30 feet, or even more. The deepest draft 
 vessel in the United States Navy exceeds 27 feet, while some foreign 
 naval' vessels draw fullv 32 feet. In view of these facts, it would seem that a 
 deep-water harbor must be one which will safely accommodate vesels drawing 
 at least 30 feet." 
 
 "The provision that it shall be a harbor for commerce is understood to 
 mean that it shall be a harbor in which vessels can load and discharge cargoes 
 in convenient proximity to suitable facilities for storage and for interchange 
 between land and water transportation. In many ports of the world this work- 
 is done by the aid of lighters while the ships lie at anchor, a slow and expens- 
 ive method, which can no longer be considered satisfactory. A deep-water har- 
 bor for commerce should be such that the deepest ships can come alongside 
 quays or piers, where they can lie quietly during rough weather to receive and 
 discharge their cargoes, and where proper facilities for docking and repairs 
 may be afforded." 
 
 "The provision that it shall be a harbor of refuge is understood to mean 
 that it shall be a harbor which all class ?s of vessels can enter in stress of 
 weather, without waiting for tides, and where they can anchor in safety at all 
 times. The depth of water in the proposed harbor of refuge must be such that 
 the largest ships can safely ride at an:hor within its limits, swinging over 
 their own anchors without danger." 
 
 — Extract from Report of U. S. Harbor Commission. 
 
,4 Mammoth QuenHon 
 
 Mark — Almost 'irco 
 
 Miles Long' 
 
 jr/'HERE else in the ivorld can you And — the on 
 '^ Water Harbor on 600 miles of coast, upon 
 pending three million dollars to perfect, and ha. 
 improve, and ivhich zvhen 
 completed, will have the 
 longest break-water in the world, and be able in its Harbor 
 of Refuge to anchor the entire fleet of any nation, and in its 
 Harbor of Commerce to accommodate the largest vessels 
 aHoatf 
 
 Where else. I say. can you find such a harbor, and more- 
 oi'er find it located, not in an out-of-the-way f^lace. hut directly 
 in line zi'ith the greatest Trans-Continental. Inter-Oceanic and 
 Isthmian routes of transportation and traffic on the face of 
 the globe, wliieh centre here by easiest grades and shortest 
 routes and safest zfays? 
 
 ly naturally pro 
 ivhich a govern 
 If as many milli 
 
 tectc 
 men 
 ons 
 
 :d Deep 
 t is ex- 
 more to 
 
 M'here else. I say. can you find such 
 commercial advantages — Yea! such com- 
 mercial imperatives! and be able to stand 
 on vacant lots and unimproved property 
 for miles along such a liarbor and cast 
 a stone into its placid 'waters? 
 
 It is a most amazing ivonder that 
 such conditions e.rist in the face of all 
 these manifold and unprecedented proofs 
 of future greatness. 
 
 This is precisely tlie situation at San 
 Pedro Harbor today. 
 
 ■ Jrum ^outh'jin Pwyjir Wharf. 
 
B. 
 
 ecaiise — 
 
 Siui Pedro 
 
 offers 
 
 natnyally 
 
 favorable approaches 
 
 from the sea — 
 
 Easy grades 
 
 by way of land — 
 
 Availability 
 
 as a 
 
 Harbor of Refuge — 
 
 Capacity 
 
 as a 
 
 Harbor of Commerce — 
 
 Convenience 
 
 of exchange of 
 
 iraffc between 
 
 land and 
 
 ivater transportation — 
 
 Abundant 
 
 ivarehousing atid 
 
 storage 
 
 facilities. 
 
 AT SAX PEDRO, warehouses or storage yards can be provided back of 
 the bulkhead Hne for the whol: len,c:th of the harbor, in the most con- 
 venient possible position for landing and handling cargoes ; practically 
 this is now done in the lumber yards in the upper ])art of this harbor. 
 In this respect San Pedro has decided advantages."' 
 "Railroad tracks now exist on each side of this harbor, and these could be 
 extended along the whole water front." 
 
 "Accommodations for maintenance and re])airs of vessels have not been 
 given the attention in American ports that they have received al5rna<l. This 
 is probablv due largely to the fact that a consideralile portion of our coastwise 
 trade is still handled in wooden vesels, \vhich require comparatively little atten- 
 tion. The foreign trade, however, now almost entirely handled in iron ships 
 and steamers, and the coasting trade will eventually be handled in the same 
 class of vesels. These iron ships foul rapidly, anrl should be taken out of the 
 water and cleaned at least twice a year. It is the English practice to have at 
 least one, and frequently several, dry d icks in every important port. Opportu- 
 nities for works of this class are afford _(1 on the edge of Wilmington Lagoon, 
 in positions where there will be abundant room on shore for machine shops 
 and other accessories. 
 
 "Considered as a deep harbor for in'ernational and foreign trade, the ad- 
 vantages which San Pedro has for handling traffic and for approaches by 
 land and sea are great ; considered as a liarbor for the coasting trade, the fa- 
 cilities for handling outweigh the disadvantage of greater distance from north- 
 ern ports ; considered as a harbor of refuge, the location at San Pedro is likely 
 to be used more than the others, though the difference may not be great ; con- 
 sidered with reference to future enlargement and extension, San Pedro offers 
 much greater possibilities." 
 — Extract from Report of U. S. Harbor Coiniiiissioii. 
 
THE casual visitor lo San Pedro is not immediately im- 
 pressed with the really beantiful situation of the city— 
 for the business portion is grouped, crescent shape, 
 down by the water front, and the handsome residence portion 
 including the great outlying mesas back of the bkififs, are not 
 seen from the wharf landings or the depots. 
 
 One might come and go a thousand times and never real- 
 ize, that back of these high bluffs is over 2000 acres of level 
 plateau stretching away lo the Palos Verde Hills. 
 
 Here is the most picturesque and delightful location for 
 a great city of any point on the coast — affording as it does, 
 residence sites on the hills, overlooking this vast, easily graded 
 plateau, destined to become the "down town" business district 
 of San Pedro. 
 
 .■\s for climate— the clouds and fogs never hover here on 
 this protected peninsular plateau, stretching as it does far 
 
 Sdii Ptilro inid /until' Harbor. 
 
 out into the sea, like they do along a low coast beach, but, are 
 divided by. or blown high over the Palos Verde Hills, and 
 driven inland across the valleys, leaving San Pedro to enjoy 
 more bright sunshiny days, and a warmer and more equable 
 temperature than any other place on record. 
 
 For grandeur of view, it rivals Point Loma. which by the 
 way is in plain sight, and, rising beyond, are the mountain 
 ranges in Old Mexico. The snow-capped Sierra Madres, fifty 
 five miles inland, here form a perfect crescent, inclosing the 
 world's garden spot of Southern California, the metropolis of 
 Los Angeles, and San Pedro, the Harbor City of the Great 
 Southwest. 
 
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 JiaHihifj Scent', fiJasf San Fedro. 
 
// 
 
 /s 
 
 a case 
 
 u'/iere 
 
 even 
 
 one mati 
 
 and 
 
 the 
 
 geography 
 
 would he 
 
 a majority" 
 
 for 
 
 the 
 
 future greatness 
 
 of 
 Sa?i Pedro 
 ' The //ardor City" 
 
 THERE are many people still smitten with surprise that harhors gen- 
 erally happen near cities — the bigger the cit_\-, the better the harbor, 
 and tliat there the ships are gathered together. By a like providen- 
 tial coincidence, the easiest grades pursue railroads. 
 
 So manv and so greatly larger prophets have foretold the Pa- 
 cific the coming theater of the world's activities that only sheer impudence 
 could here insist upon it with the detail of an inventor. At present I desire to 
 suggest this ocean merely as a facility for getting somewhere — almost any- 
 where, in fact, since it is a spacious way. And the relation of the Pacific 
 Ocean to the world's imminent commerce once grasped, it is not far to begin to 
 discern the relation of our Pacific Coast to the Pacific Ocean. Yonder is the 
 stage upon which the world's chief drama is to be played. Here, so far as the 
 leading lady (we trust) is concerned, is the stage entrance. Here is our door 
 to India, China, Japan. Australia, the South Seas, the west coast of South 
 and Central .\merica, and Mexico and Alaska — in fact, to the richest of the 
 Old World and the New, with a tolerably overwhelming majority of the 
 world's population and productivity, and a range in each to which huiuan 
 knowledge writes not one addendum. This in itself might suffice to justify 
 some more sober consideration of our outlet. 
 
 — C7(rt.s-. F. LiiiJiuiis. "The Right Hand of the Continent." published in June, 
 1902, number of "Out West." 
 
 Deep Sea 
 DweTH. 
 
Population 3500. Doubled since Census of 1901. 
 
 Public Library In its own building. 
 
 Public Schools. Three Buildings, twelve teachers. Five hundred and 
 nine .scholars enrolled. Increase 28 per cent over last year. 
 
 Titv Electric Light Companies. 
 7iv'0 IVatcr Companies, 
 fire Department. 
 Gas Company. 
 
 Churches. 
 Catholic, 
 Episcopalian, 
 Presbyterian, 
 Methodist, 
 Scandinavian 
 
 ;\Iethodist, 
 Peniel Mission, 
 -th Day Adventists, 
 
 Christian Scientists 
 Biological .'italioii of the University of California. 
 
 Marine Gardens abounding in most prolific forms of sea life in the 
 world. 
 
 first ll'ireless Telegraph Station ever established for comninnicnfion 
 on any coast, was established here Aug. 2, '02, between San Pedro 
 and Avalon, Catalina Island. 
 
To "«//t' man and the Geography, as a major itj" for tlx fniurc greatness of San Pedro, " The Harbor Citr" 
 
 LUMBER 
 
 IXCKKASE OF 300% IX FI\'E YEARS. 
 100,000.000 feet of lumber discharged at this port in 1897. 
 .^00.000.000 feet of himber (hscharged at this port in iyo_'. 
 300,000,000 feet of himber @ 15,000 feet to car, makes 18,000 carloads of lumber, or goo trains of 20 cars each, mal 
 
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 VIEW FUiiM TIIK /'LIZA OF TIIF, /XyEirj/AFtllON, III; lIMtllOl! 
 
 I'esse/s Seven Hundred and I{ighty-nine i'acitic Coast steamers and lumber vessels entered port in iyo2 
 
 (exclusive of local craft and fishing vessels and the Catalina Island passenger steamers, one in winter season 
 
 and three in summer season, which make daily trips, carrying about 100 passengers each on the average). 
 
 Passengers The half year, July to Dec, 1902. Total, 35.302. Inward bound, 18,144 ; outward bound, 17,158. 
 
ICEIPTS. 
 
 Add ^^e evidence of the "Port Entries" of tljc United States Custom House Reports 
 
 INCREASE OF OVER 40^0 0\'ER 1901. 
 "Making this port rank next to San Francisco in lumber receipts, and a like increase next year will put San 
 Pedro, "the Harbor City,' the first lumber receiving- and shipping port on the Pacific Coast." 
 
 about T, trainloads of lumber for every working day in the calendar, or 8 carloads an hour every day in the year. 
 
 XMBUCE OF n.iy PBD/tO. CALIFORyr.X. -THE IIAUnon CITY 
 
 Merchajidise Miscellaneous freight and merchandise, 120 carloads. Harbor recei]3ts doubled in 1902 over 190 1. 
 Fresh Fish Shipments. 2,000,000 pounds for the year 1902. Inward Ijound increase over 1901, 33%. 
 Outward bound increase over 1901, 40%. (Inward bound shipments cover fifteen States and Territories, 
 reaching from Utah on the north to Iowa and Tennessee on the east and Mexico on the south.) 
 
To- 
 
 one man 
 
 and tJw geography 
 
 as a majority 
 
 for the 
 
 future greatness 
 
 of 
 
 San Pedro 
 
 ''The Harbor City" 
 
 Add- 
 
 T'tvo 
 
 trans-coiitiiirnlal 
 
 h'dilroads 
 
 by 
 
 easier grades 
 
 and 
 
 shorter routes — 
 
 Never 
 
 obstructed bv 
 
 ice 
 
 or 
 
 WHEN Los Angeles, ten years ago, first presented its claims fur the 
 construction of a great sea-wall at San Pedro, it was in order that 
 the work hcgun by nature might be completed in the making of a 
 port for the commerce of th : Orient, a large portion of which should 
 Ijy the operation of the inevitable laws of trade gravitate to this re- 
 gion. It was that the cotton of the South and the hams and bacon of Kansas 
 and the fabrics and machinery of the East might find their way, by easy 
 grades and cheap transportation to the Pacific, where they would join with the 
 shipment across to the countries of the Orient ; and that in return should come 
 the silks and tea and rice and the handiwork of the East to be distributed over 
 the same route back into the center of the nation. Many times in the struggle 
 was the question to be met: "What need has Los Angeles for this harbor?" 
 to which the answer was always given: 'It is the L'nited States that needs it'." 
 
 The Oriental countries of China, Japan, British Australasia. Corea and Si- 
 berian Russia, the Phillipines and the French and Dutch East Indies, He nearer 
 to the L'nited States by a thousand miLs or more than they do to Europe. 
 These countries contain over 800,000,000 of population, and their area exceeds 
 that of Europe and the L'nited States combined." 
 
 "Commerce, like most natural forces, will follow the line of least resist- 
 ance, and there enter, as material facto -s in the railway end of the calculation, 
 questions of distance, grade, snow, and, sometimes, most important of all, op- 
 ])ortunity for competition." 
 
 — V.xtract from "The Prcc Harbor Contest" a National Issnc, by Clias. Didght 
 Willard. 
 
..lATE BANK OF SAN PKDpn 
 
 Two Banks. "Stale Bank" and "Bank of San Pedro." 
 Deposits more than doubled last year, 
 igoi, $ijo,ooo; 1902, $33,^.000. 
 A third Bank, the First National, Ijeing organized. 
 
 Lumber Conit^aiiics. 5 himber companies ouii uliarves of their own. 
 8 Los Angeles Companies receive lumber here. 
 
 3 Los Angeles Box and Furniture Manufacturing Cos. 
 
 4 Railroad Companies receive ties, piles, etc. 
 
 .■\11 inland consignments for Southern California, .Arizona, New Mexico. 
 
 Planing Mill. One of the largest on Pacific Coast, milling 3,000,000 feet a 
 month. 1500 feet front W'harfage. 
 Can discharge 8,ooo,oco feet lumber a month. 
 
 Soiitli Coast Yaclit Club. 
 
 U. S. Goz'ci'niiicitl Lighthouse. 
 
 U. S. Custom House. 
 
 U. S. Marine Hospital Service. 
 
 Boating. Pishing. Bathing, unexcelled. 
 
 Sati 2'edrn I'luuiinj J//. 
 
 L'ailwatj DtiuOle Trari to Los .Xiiijeies. 
 
To 
 
 one man 
 
 and the geograpliy 
 
 as a ■majority 
 
 for the 
 
 future greatness 
 
 •'if 
 
 Sail Pedi 
 
 ''The Harbor City' 
 
 Add- 
 
 the significatice of 
 ■l^j, 000,000 Government 
 breakwater 
 $1 ,000,000 Inner Harbor 
 Improvements. 
 $1,^00,000 Government 
 Dry Docks. 
 $2, =^00, 000 private cor- 
 poration improvements. 
 $ §00 000 Public Im- 
 p' ovements and building. 
 $1,500,000 annual icage 
 pay roll of the 
 laboring man. 
 
 $iyi;,(x)o l)uil<liii,u- im])rovcments during year 1902. 
 $125,000 business Jjlucks to Ije built this year. 
 45.000 street work completed. 
 
 130,000 street work imder way, sjrading, sidewalk, curbing, etc. 
 125.000 storm drain. 
 $ 60,000 monthly wage pa\' roll of 700 laboring men, distriliuted weekly in 
 San Pedro. 
 81,000 wages paid 9780 sailors from June to December, 1902, 90% of the 
 sailors making this port are paid off here. 
 3.000 per month increase of wage pay roll on account of improvements of 
 inner harbor, begun February, 1903, giving emjiloyment to half a hun- 
 dred men. 
 50.000 per month increase wage (lay roll of 600 additional laboring men on 
 account of following improvements b_\- private corporations and rail- 
 ways. 
 $300,000 new planing mill and wholesale lumber yards inside next six months 
 for Southwestern Lunilier Co., representing the Illinn interests in San 
 Pedro. 
 60.000 on remodeling old and adding new wharf South California Linnber Co. 
 
 25.000 600-ft. wharf and new cannery, Cal. Fish Co. 
 1,500.000 of the Huntington millions to lae expended inside next six months for 
 mole and wharf. 1000 ft. wide to 5-fathom water line in outer harbor 
 for wharfage and terminal purposes of Pacific Electric Ry. interests. 
 $200,000 extending switches, inaking improvements of the 14-mile yard and 
 wharf track of the Salt Lake Rv., including c;oo ft. new wharf under 
 construction (300 ft. for Crescent \\'harf & Storage Co.). i.ooo ft. 
 more wharfage to be built this summer, also new depot. 
 500,000 being spent by Southern Pacific Ry. in improvements. 2.400 ft. new 
 wharfs and bulk heading to be completed inside six montlis. 
 
Shifi Yards. Built Hermosa, New 
 Warrior, Cricket. 
 
 Sardine Cannery. Only genuine one 
 in U. S. 
 
 Lobster Cannery, running day and 
 night. 
 
 Abalonc Cannery, supplying Japan, 
 China and U. S. trade. 
 
 Eight Fisli Cinnfanies. 
 
 lee Plant, 
 
 Bottling Works. 
 
 Salt Works. 
 
 iMttkiiKj Out to .Sea finiti fiiner JIarhor. 
 
 Oil Industry. Increased sale of oil as fuel for ocean-going vessels, that used to burn Portland and Seattle coal, has made it profit- 
 able for the Standard Oil Co. to erect two large stationary tanks, which are kept full at all times. 
 
 Pipe Line To bring oil for fuel from Great So. Cal. Oil Wells direct to San Pedro for consumption by manufacturing plants will 
 add great impetus to locating manufactures here. 
 
To — 
 
 "one »ian 
 
 and the 
 
 geograpliy as a 
 
 majority for 
 
 the futiii c i^rcalness 
 
 of 
 San Pedro 
 '''The Harbor City" 
 
 Add— 
 
 the significayue 
 
 of the eompleiion of the 
 
 Alcaragua Canal 
 
 placing N. ) '. 
 
 4§oo miles by -water 
 
 at g-jo of I mill per ton 
 
 freight rate per mile 
 
 or about $4.50 
 
 At present 
 
 Jjoo miles by rail 
 
 at § or 6 mills per ton 
 
 per mile, or about $18.00 
 
 freight rate 
 
 BY FAR the most important aspect of this subject is its relation to the 
 probable future development of the deep-sea commerce of the country. 
 ITerctofore the Asiatic trade has naturally gone to San Francisco. 
 Two through lines, the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe systems, cross 
 the continent from Los Angeles at much lower elevations than the 
 northern lines, and also connect the Pa:ific with the C,vM of Mexico, and their 
 operation is never obstructed by snow or ice. If a safe, accessible and con- 
 venient harbor for deep draft vessels existed on the southern coast, these would 
 a])pear to be the most favorable lines for transportation of Asiatic and Aus- 
 tralian commerce. With the completion of the Nicaragua canal, commerce will 
 be principally transported by steam vessels, which will seek the nearest, favor- 
 able and convenient port from which their freight can reach the markets. A 
 deep-water harbor on the southern coast would thus receive the Asiatic and 
 Australian freights for shipment, accommodate a large part of the commerce 
 passing through the Nicaragua canal and finally furnishing a port of shipment 
 anfl sujjplv not onlv for the productive territory in its immediate vicinity, but 
 also the great interior reached by the southern railways beyond the mountain 
 ranges.'" 
 
 "Considering, therefore, the needs of commerce in the near future, the 
 Hoard is of the opinion that the propoH^l deep-water harbor is of high na- 
 tional im]iortance, and well worthy of c instruction liy the government.'" 
 
 — Extract fvoin U. S. Gozi. Engineers' report on Locating a Harbor at San 
 Pedro. 
 
 Abalo7ies 
 
California Pacific Railway (Los Angeles TractionCo.) 
 
 completed; tlurty iiiinute service to Los Angeles. 
 
 Pacific Electric Ry., to be completed this season to its 
 
 own terminal wharf to handle steamship and passenger 
 
 trafiic. 
 
 'I wo : Southern Pacific and Salt Lake Routes. 
 
 Two more now seeking San Pedro as harbor terminus. 
 
 Wilmington Transportation Co. Steamers. 
 
 Merchants' Independent Line Steamers. 
 
 Pacific Coast Steamship Co. 
 
 The time for freight by water w-ould be ten days. 
 Cdiial Route 25,000 car loads of oranges produced in Southern Cali- 
 Significancc. fornia annually could be thus laid down in New York 
 in approximately the same time and for less than half the money, and 
 the steamship companies still make too per cent profit. 
 
 Electric 
 Lines. 
 
 Railroads. 
 
 Steamship 
 Lines. 
 
 Nicaragua 
 
 Bank i>J ,Saii Pedro, 
 
 Moreover, all manufactured 
 stuffs and implements froin as 
 far west as Chicago can be 
 shipped to New York and 
 brought around by water cheap- 
 er than to be sent direct through 
 by rail. All raw material and 
 products as far east as Utah 
 and New Mexico can be 
 freighted here by rail and 
 shipped around to New York 
 by water cheaper than direct by 
 rail. 
 
 Looking Tmrard 
 Wilmhi(]l>oii jMf/oon 
 from Inner Harbor. 
 
To 
 
 "otie man 
 
 and the gcoi;rap/iv 
 
 as a major a V 
 
 for fhc 
 
 future greatness 
 
 '■if 
 San Pedro 
 
 • The Harbor City" 
 
 Add. 
 
 one more man 
 
 and let that ma?i 
 
 be yourself — 
 
 and bt ing your 
 
 family and your 
 
 money and your 
 
 brains and your 
 
 business iftterests 
 
 and 
 
 DO 
 IT 
 
 NOW! 
 
 N 
 
 (') POINT on the Pr.cific coast of the United States today is attracting 
 as much attention from capitalists and investors as San Pedro ; and the 
 reason for this is obvious to those who have followed the long strug- 
 gle for the location of the Government deep-water harbor for South- 
 ern California at that point. 
 
 "If the construction of a deep-water harbor at San Pedro was of "high na- 
 tional importance," as suggested by the Board of Government Engineers, how 
 much more so has it now become since the United States has gained a foothold 
 in Asia by the acquisition of the great Philippine archipelago and the annexation 
 of Hawaii ? The late war has demonstrated the necessity of constructing the 
 Nicaragua canal, and its accomplishment is an assured fact in the near future. 
 
 "Possessed, then, of the great advantages over its commercial competitors 
 on tlie Pacific coast, as pointed out by the Government Engineers, where is 
 there a more inviting field for investment than San Pedro and its vicinity? 
 The work on the harlior, for which the Government has apropriated $2,900,000, 
 has already commenced. In addition to the above appropriation, the Secretary 
 of the Navy, in his last report to Congress, recommended the construction of 
 a Government dry dock at San Pedro, to cost $1,000,000, when the harbor con- 
 struction has sufficiently progressed. 
 
 "The growth of the town has so far been a healthy one, and those most 
 deeply interested hope that it will continue so and that nothing in the nature 
 of a boom will take place. It is safe to antici]5ate that the population of San 
 Pedro will be over 10,000 before the completion of the breakwater; and if it 
 keeps pace with the future growth of American commerce in the Pacific, 50,- 
 000 is a moderate estimate within the next ten years." 
 
 — Contr\b\iicd by II on. John T. Gatf'ey, luv-Prcsidcnt Board of Trade. 
 
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