anaheim-gazette 1919-06-05

VILL BE SPENT Engineer. Outlines Proposed Development. the owner of 500 feet of frontage on the channel, where the county dock and warehouse will be located. The deed from the La Habra Land and Water Company is now in escrow for this purpose. The country's harbor bond money will give us a COMMERCIAL PORT, with all its resultant advantages to every property owner and resident of Orange county. It will also make possible the entry of larger pleasure boats and government ships whose presence in our harbor will benefit every last one of us. Newport Bay is a great asset in our keeping. We MUST NOT FAIL to develop it to the perpetual benefit of Orange County and the United States. BOR BOND MONEY WILL y's Harbor by Major Charles T. Leeds, Government Engineer. Or done. Our completed harbor will cost over $740,000, Orange county paying $500,000 and the little city of Newport Beach paying $240,000, her work being already completed. —We will have a complete harbor unit which will admit vessels of 16-foot draft at LOW TIDE and capable of handling 73,000 tons of commerce a year. There is plenty of room for further development by the government or private interests but it will always be a People's Harbor, for our county-owned wharf and warehouse will give us control of the port forever, which no corporation or private interest can take from us. —Just as soon as the bonds are voted June 10, Orange county will become ORANGE COUNTY'S HARBOR HOW HARBOR Official Map of Orange County’s Harbor by —YOUR Vote next Tuesday, June 10, may say whether or not Orange county shall develop a harbor at Newport Bay. YOU win if the vote is “Bonds Yes” and YOU lose if the bonds should be defeated, for anything that is good for Orange county is good for YOU individually. You owe it to yourself and to Orange county to study closely the proposed improvement and the manner in which it will benefit YOUR business and YOUR job. —This official map shows that a commercial harbor CAN BE DEVELOPED at Newport Bay for $500,000 by Orange county, utilizing the $125,000 Newport city jetty and aided by dredging which Newport city has already HARBOR BALBOA ISLAND COUNTY CHANNEL CORONA DEL MAR PIER JETTY CONSTRUCTED BY THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH EXTENSION TO JETTY ESTIMATED COST $50,000 ORANGE COUNTY'S HARBOR WHARF, WAREHOUSE, RAILROAD CONNECTION ESTIMATED COST $43,000 POINT $2000 DREDGING CHANNEL ESTIMATED COST $270,000 CHANNEL DREDGED BY THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH BAY ISLAND OCEAN PACIFIC ED at Newport Bay for $600,000 by Orange county, utilizing the $120,000 Newport city jetty and aided by dredging which Newport city has already WHARF, WAREHOUSE, RAILROAD CONNECTION ESTIMATED COST $43,000 DAM AT BITTER POINT ESTIMATED COST $2000 NEW OUTLET FOR RIVER INCLUDES CONSTRUCTION OF JETTIES, REVETTED LEVEES, SINGLE TRESTLE, DREDGING, ETC. ESTIMATED COST $135,000 PACIFIC Vote "Bonds Yes" Next Tuesday June 10th of Orange County HARBOR BOND CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, J. C. METZGAR, Chairman. her vast commerce, her government ships, forts, sub-base, ship-building plants, and, during the war, her naval training station. Orange county has increased her soil production but we have allowed Newport Bay to remain idle, unproductive, and unprofitable—a "dead" asset. We must build for the future. It takes time to build harbors just as it takes time to build a city. Nobody knows what the needs of the United States may be in the next five or ten years. Let's build our harbor [costing 35 cents per person per year] and thus prepare for any local or national need which may arise. Business is bound to come when we provide the facilities and in a few years we will say our harbor was the best investment Orange County ever made. We will be in direct touch by water with every port in the world. members of Commerce of Orange "LET'S MAKE IT UNANIMOUS" This plan, drawn up by Maj. C. T. Leeds, U. S. government engineer, for $500,000 provides a "safe harbor" and the "adequate facilities," two essentials of a commercial port. Orange County, with its 60,000 population and $63,000,000 annual production, backed by Riverside and San Bernardino counties, certainly has the "tributary commerce," the third requirement of a successful harbor. Our harbor will cost cents and return us dollars. It would be a crime not to develop our harbor. We owe it to ourselves and the entire country. Just imagine what Orange county would be like now if we had started improving Newport Harbor ten years ago! Look at Long Beach with her $2,333,907 building permits already this year. And she started ten years ago with less than 25,000 people and a mud flat. And look at San Pedro, with Associated Chamber Show This to Your Neighbor and Post it up Where all May See