Los Angeles Harbor

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Stock #:650717
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Los Angeles
State: California (CA)
County: Los Angeles
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Breakwater: 11,050 feet long, 14 feet above low tide. 20 feet wide at top. 100 to 200 feet wide at bottom. Depths: Outer Harbor, 30 to 50 feet low tide. Inner Harbor, 30 to 34 feet low tide. Freight Sheds: Four Municipal, 4115 feet long, each 100 feet wide. Pilot, Lowest Rates On Pacific Coast: Not required if master holds pilot's license. Turning Basin: 1600 feet diameter, 30 feet low tide. Wharves, Municipal and Private: 32,940 feet frontage. Width of Main Channel, Inner Harbor: 500 to 900 feet, 30 feet low tide. Net tonnage of ships through the Harbor has increased from 170,157 tons in 1900 to 3,645,923 tons in 1915. Merchandise tonnage has increased from 14,167 tons in 1902 to 1,075,932 tons in 1915. Any Steamship sailing the Pacific can round the breakwater in any kind of weather, day or night, at any stage of the tide and moor at a wharf under its own power within twenty minutes from the time it leaves the open sea. Interior points served by Salt Lake, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Pacific Electric and Union Pacific Railways. Issued by Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

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