Show WO V ET t D 1 o WATER HARBOR Utah Will Be Asked to Help Hel R RA Los Angeles A n 9 ales tl i e SAN SAN SA Pf P DRO D O PORT THE ISSE ISS 1 SS E EI 4 I WILL WILh BE mo Q JP W K Kt t Action favoring the completion of or the theban San ban Pedro harbor hartor will be urged toiled before th the fete board boaM of It of oe the Commer Commercial trial cial club Crab tomorrow evening At that time the commercial ot or Salt Sait Lake will vela be asked ked to Join hands with the Ix U Los Angeles Antelee chamber hamber of com Carn commerce commerce merce and with similar bodies in Denver Den Denver Denver ver and other places interested to ta i push in congress a bill to appropriate ate att the money necessary to complete the harbor Salt alt Lake bake is vitali vitally tally interested because th the harbor will be the coast roast terminus of the new San Pedro Lon Lion J Angeles Anger 8 Halt Salt Lake road which w ch is k being built to form an outlet for tor the flee products of Utah itah Because of the importance to the material interests of that the harbor be completed it is thought that citizens of this state may raise rails MO to pay the expenses of or hav having ing the matter properly presented before con congress congre Congress gress gress gre Los doe Angeles has already raised for this purpose P PA A communication from the Los An Angeles Angeles geles chamber of or commerce H trill 1111 ill be pre presented presented to the board asking it to pass pus passa pusa a already adopted by that bod Other organisation 6 in Utah Uth California Cail Colorado Montana will willIMS be IMS asked ked to pass the th utO on It is isas isas issa as sa follows Appeal to Congress Whereas It appear arpe that fh the Ate K business bus I transacted transacted f h the of 0 Ian Elan jn P Pedro dro has bu increased over Deer 0 per cent nt within the last six Ix years yean re and d has ha in ia increased Increased creased hi in the last rea ear more than SO 50 per pel percent cent and that tb t the e t l inc inco increase In 11 harbor hair 1 re receipts re reid of o said ald id port for forthe the year 1908 1902 over tW t Y emr 1101 was 1 per tnt cent and the Increase in the Me said Bald receipts for the cur current current rent nt year over oer the year ear IMS will proba groba bly be at least leat 1 0 per cent and Whereas Wl The present harbor facilities of the harbor at San Pedro where the bulk of said business is hi transacted are entirely inadequate to accommodate the present business bu lne of the harbor on ac aN account account count of the lack of deep water thong along aoa the wharf water frontage fJOn c of or said Bald harbor and Whereas It is r apA nt that the future growth of the territory whose who business bu Is itt transacted acted through said vaid harbor and the of or its Itt commerce com e ce will IA in the immediate future largely increase the demands upon the tM faculties of said San Pedro harbor to te accommodate its com commerce commerce merce and Whereas The board hoard of engineers of or the United States government gm has heretofore recommended a project by which a depth of feet of water at ax low tide shall be attained in said acid tuner inner harbor from the entrance thereof at Dead Deed Mans Seans island l to te Wilmington thus affording an n available wharf frontage tron of about abbot seven miles and Whereas Wh The business interests inter ta of southern California at the present time require and in is the future will wAl much more largely demand deep water harbor facilities ties Ue for the carry purpose pa e of accommodating a g commerce carried in deep d draught dra ht ships she between this section on and the Atlantic ports Aorta of the rite States the South SouthAm Am roast and the orient ode t therefore bt t I Of Great Interest t Resolved That it te Is a matter of o para par paramount mount interest to southern California as at aswell atwell well as ss to aU all of the southwestern terri tory of ol the ratted taft States that the gov am government shall baU proceed p at tit once and as rapidly as u te pe to improve the inner harbor as aa recommended by the board of engineers of the United States so that thata a depth of ot five feet of water at low tide shall be obtained over the whole area of the said aid toner inner harbor from the entrance f thereof enot t to Wilmington WI n Jn and be Ise it t further r Resolved That w appeal to the sena ena tors torr to representing the state elate of California In n the United States senate senale and to the representatives of the state of California Call forma I in congress to io urgently insist upon the appropriation by the tN government at the thep present p nt session Ion of congress of the total focal sum estimate by the board of engineers of the United States Stat as ae the cost tret oo t of said improvement and that the game aam be bP put r under the continuing contract system Byte so that the Improvement so aM o urgently de dc demanded d by the commerce of southern n Cal California 81 as well as of the southwestern portion of file th States ma may be com completed computed pk ted at the earliest possible ible po date datI Resolved further That the i hereby directed to send a copy COP of or o these thee I resolutions to the senators and sad 1 representatives j in coert from fI title state tate I II I hereby Lenity certify y that the severe aboe is a atrue j true tree sad and correct copy of the resolutions re i iI asad I by b the th directors of the Los Ios An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles chamber r of tf commerce at the regu regular re Jar ear held add Tt Wednesday WedDell Y Dec K lC I 1018 In witness whereof I Rave have hereunto af affixed a fixed my hand band and the seal eal 01 of the Ue cor corporation cori i paa Opted HOMER t LAUGHLIN ke t effect Attest tt Signed FRANK W WIGGINS Secretary |