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Title: California south tehachapi..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Pacific company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ast three seasons. -A;SI ppnon From Thenard the other branch extends to Sanz>Ari PtiDKU Pedro, now a place of great activity. The govern-ment has begun the expenditure of a million and a half dollars increating here a free harbor. When completed it will, with PortLos Angeles, give California, South of Tehachapi, first-class opendoors to the commerce of the world. San Pedro is also assumingimportance as a commercial center. Oysters, sardines and lob-sters^ are successful aquatic crops that make the epicure cast alonging eye at the bay. Pt. Fermin lighthouse is worthy of a visit.Terminal Island, reached by the excellent ferryservice of the Southern Pacific Company from SanPedro, and enjoying the same rates from Los An-geles and the interior as do Santa Monica, San Pedro, and LongBeach, though a comparatively new resort, is widely popular,with its quiet waters, good bathing, boating, and fishing. It hasa beautiful promenade and a fine pleasure wharf. TERMINALISLAND 41 ■ ■ •. ■
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Near neighbor to San Pedro on WilmingtonWILfllNGTON Bay> -lt is 0f historical interest. It is the centerof a great grain country, and its people, though disinclined tobrass bands in business affairs, are prosperous. From San Pedro, steamers plow the Pacific (in SANTA the summer daily or twice a day) on a twenty- CATAL1NA three mile trip to Santa Catalina Island, the great island resort of the Pacific Coast, and but three and a half hours from Los Angeles. The fame of the island runs now where man can read.Avalon Bay and the Isthmus are ideal resorts. The twenty-two miles of island, mountain, cliff, valley, forest, peninsula, pos-sess a magnificent scenic stage road, wonderful views, fine goatand quail hunting, winding trails, deep gorges, and water-fallsamong the attractions of the interior; yet perhaps the largernumber of visitors find most enjoyment in or upon the water.It is a summer isle, with the surf beating on the rocky cliffs ofthe south and west coasts, and with the ocean

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