| Show r I I SAN SN PEDRO PEoRO WANTS DEEP SEA WHARF T TI E C Gibbon Asks For a Pier Fran Franchise franr franchise r I chise In Government Go G er ment Harbor j USUAL PROTESTS interested Claim No Interest luterI Will be bo Nl ed 1 by y the tho ol 01 I OOOO Structure depart departments Tho The activity In the various ments merits of ot the Bon Pedro Los Loff Angeles Salt Lake Inke railroad betokens that things ore Ire rapidly drawing to n a focus Tho rho Jat tat of or securing et eeL c t move In tn the direction franchises on Ori tho the part vart of ot tho the Clark road rond was made up Wednesday when whon T TG TE TE E G Gibbon filed on an application with the tho board of ot supervisors for tor n a franchise to build a wharf at San Pedro pe ro to bo be In conjunction with other othet terminal privileges at lit that point The rho petition tieRs asks that tho jho company bo till allowed nil owed to a n pier vier of some nomo 1100 feet teet In length beginning at a II point In tho the government harbor line on Oil tho Llio east enst Mo sIdo of lit Wilmington harbor as ns approved by tire tiro secretary of war under date of ot May Mn 1 this point ed as liB the tho north corner of tho the land em embraced braced In III the franchise hlll granted crant to the California Fish From the size of ot the tho pl pitr r that hat Is to It tobo tobe bo bl constructed at a II cost ost of ot about at itt an early date It Il can bo be readily seen that the lie railroad company proposes to tomake tomake tomake make connections with Ith ocean going steamers and expects to handle a II heavy amount of freight and passenger busi liui business ness MilS As MIn In n tho the case of Qt every eer step proposed to o bo IJ W bY b tho the Ban Pedro In tho the post pMt protests against the grunting granting of ot this the franchise have haye been tiled Ull tl and a n number ot of Intricate legal questions have havo Inconsequence been raised and submitted to the legal advisor of the board Chief Deputy District Attorney Wilbur rending fending his hlo decision In tho the matter mailer the action of or the board In re regard regard gard to granting tho franchise hue has boon beOn deferred tl until Monday I Among those thoRe ho Hied fileti protests wire ware the California Fish Floh company and the i Southern California Lumber company who claim to own tho major portion of ot the land In question and also that tho t no public interest will be bo lI by granting the tho franchise to the San Pe Pedro Pedro Pedro dro Los Angeles f c Suit Lake Lako Railroad company |
