Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1917 — Los Angeles’ Harbor. [ARTICLE]

Los Angeles’ Harbor.

The federal government has spent about $5,000,000 in converting the old embarcadero at San Pedro into the modern Los Angeles harbor. To this the city of Los Angeles has added $5,500,000, and private capital has expended there about $.3,000,000, making a. total of $13,5Q0.t)00. The result is that thecity has 12,000 feet of wharf? 4,600 feet of transit sheds 100 feet wide, and a six-story warehouse, conthan seven miles of street paving has been laid, five miles of water mains, and more than ten miles of railroad belt lines and yard tracks. During the last fiscal year ended June 30. 1916, 2,787 ships called at the harbor, bearing a net tonnage of 3,223,023.