[Newspaper]
Publication: The Los Angeles Express
Los Angeles, CA, United States
vol. 43, no. 69, p. 1, col. 4-6
HARBOR BUSINESS BOOM GROWS FAST
Import Show Big Increase
and Many Large Plants
Are Being Built
"NO WIDER advertisement for Long Beach harbor and the greater part of Los Angeles was ever written than the fact that a submarine remained buried in its depths for a record-breaking period," declares Patrick C. Campbell, manager of the harbor lands department of the Los Angeles Investment company.
"The story of that record went all over the world and it served to tell the world the depth of our port channel. This is the feature that will be noted by shippers and foreign manufacturers.
Campbell has directed the development and sale of Inner Harbor tract, an investment company industrial property, and is an authority on the rapid increase in manufactures at the harbor as well as on the shipping.
That this shipping is increasing at a surprising rate is evidenced by the latest figures, covering a month past. Lumber is now the greatest staple among the receipts, 53,435,000 feet having been received in 30 days. Kindred to lumber come shingles, 978,000; shakes, 4,450,000; laths, 7,856,000, and ties piles, posts and doors in quantity.
Many Commodities Included
Practically every commodity is embraced in the domestic imports to the harbor and quantities are considered astonishing when such materials as ink weigh 15 tons for a month; cheese 51 tons, peanuts 14 tons, and sauces 56 tons.
Of variety of imports, from domestic ports, there are soap, aluminum, excelsoir, sash weights, apples, malt, meal, wheels, oils, creosote, pickles, embroidery, manganese, vinegar, wool, ammonia, bags, metal, sheep, beans, paint, sugar, paper, grain, plants, flour, cereals, marble, milk, feed, staves potatoes and merchandise in large tonnage.
Boats from all parts of the world bring in coffee, graphite, barium, steel bars, champagnes, earthenware, tropical fruits of all kinds, even pianos and other manufactured articles from abroad. More than 1300 tons of merchandise alone came here from foreign points in the month.
New Plants Going Up
Near Inner Harbor Tract, where Mr. Campbell has seen rapid development, there is being put up the big plant of the American Potash company. An asphaltum plant is under way, near by. The Long Beach Iron Works will be opened within a month. A new model laundry will open with 50 employes. The Globe Transfer and Storage company has opened a monster warehouse. The Union Oil company is increasing its great storage plant. The California Glass Insulator company has added ten more shops. The Star Drilling company, furnishing material for Panama canal, has come here from Akron, O. The California Woolen Mills company is building its big plant on the tract of the Los Angeles Investment company and will have it in operation by autumn. A new steamship line operating to Catalina has increased the Long Beach harbor traffic, operating the first boat last Sunday.
"In view of these things prices are advancing materially at the harbor," Campbell asserts. "There is naturally only a limited amount of such lands and they must grow in value every year. It is because of the present demand that this company was forced to announce a 25 per cent increase in prices, beginning June 25."