[Newspaper]
Publication: The Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles, CA, United States
vol. 10, no. 249, p. 4; Sect. 4, col. 5
37 Industries Are
Now All Located
in Harbor District
Nearly Score of Others Said to
Have Bought or Are
Negotiating for Plants
It is stated that in the district surrounding the Los Angeles harbor there are already located thirty-seven industries. Nearly all of them have locations on or very near tidewater or along the railroad lines that have already been built into the district.
Some of the principal industries now operating in the district are the Craig Shipbuilding Company, the Southern California Edison Company, the California Insulating Company. Long Beach Salt Works, Star Drilling Machine Company, American Potash Company, Long Beach Consolidated Gas Company, add over a score of lumber yards, sawmills and smaller wood working establishments. Nearly a score of other manufacturing companies. It is said, have either sought or bought locations and will begin active building operations shortly.
The California Insulator Company's plant, adjoining the Dominguez Harbor tract, now being sold by F. P. Newport Company, was organized upon the basis of $3,000,000 capital stock. Arthur G. Munn, president of the company, is authority for the statement that the company has secured a contract with the telephone and telegraph companies of the Pacific Coast to supply them with 3,000,000 insulators at the rate of 500,000 a year. The company recently increased its facilities to permit the manufacture of glass fruit jars.