Larry Strawther The Bayside Land Company was formed by Phillip A. Stanton to to create and promote the town that would eventually become Seal Beach. 2 SEP 1903 – LA Times, pA2. INCORPORATED: Bayside Land Company, capital stock $200,000; subscribed: $25. directors: P.A. Stanton, I.A. Lothian, George E. Pillsbury, W.R. Bacon, E.M. Mansell Pillsbury was the Chief … Read more
GEORGE E. PILLSBURY. Los Angeles Born Tewksbury. Mass.. 1857. Educated public schools and Lawrence Academy. Began civil engineering in Lowell, Mass., and until 1880 was in the employ of various railroads; then removed to Mexico where, for about three years, he was a division engineer during the building of the Mexican Central Railway. In 1884 … Read more
1902 Sugar Factory Beet Sugar Gazette, Oct. 1902, p.240 Additional Appointments for the Campaign of 1902-03 Los Alamitos Sugar Company, Los Alamitos, Cal. H. C. Lawrence, Superintendent. I. Evans Miller, Assistant Superintendent. F. Logan Norton, Assistant Superintendent. F. K. Edwards, Chief Engineer. D. W. Goodwin, Night Engineer. J. O. Reed. Sugar Boiler. Sidney Smith. Sugar … Read more
12 FEB 1901, Los Alamitos Man battered (LA Times) R.E. Powell of Los Alamitos came before a Long Beach judge and lodged a “John Doe” complaint, charging a Belgian laborer with assault. Powell gives an account of mistreatment and shows some ugly wounds in support of his statement. Powell says that on the 3rd inst. … Read more
24 NOV 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette , Vol 1, No. 10 (December 1900) Chicago Illinois, p18 LOS ALAMITOS, CAL. Editor Beet Sugar Gazette:—The unusually long drouth of this coast was terminated last Thursday, the 22d inst., by a genuine “sou’easter,” rain falling to the amount of 2.40 inches in less than ten hours, and … Read more
Susan Hathaway Bixby loved her Rancho Los Alamitos adobe, but positively hated the stench caused by the effluent from the new sugar factory. What this article would most significantly seem to indicate that Lewellyn Bixby was the main Bixby contact for the sugar factory, when it says, “In June 1896, J.Ross and W.A. Clark entered … Read more
April 4, 1900 — Bixby Land Company minutes book- , the minutes note that the company borrowed money from Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. By February 1901 the debt had grown to $15,000, and the land company also owed the Palos Verdes Company $2,551.98 for “Sundry notes” given by tenants to that company … Read more
1899-1900 Orange County Directory Belt Fine Publishing, Santa Ana — $2.00 March 1899 [p.153] LOS ALAMITOS Is located on a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad some 14 miles northwest of Santa Ana. It is the heart of the sugar beet section and the Los Alamitos Sugar Beet factory is located there. This establishment alone distributes … Read more
In 1899, the Bolsa Chica Gun Club was formed. The club was one of many duck hunting clubs which were established in the cienegas and coastal estuaries which formed where the the Los Angeles, San Gabriel and Santa Ana rivers reached the ocean or where the rivers would overflow before completing the journey. These wetlands … Read more
Los Alamitos—A Crackerjack Sugar Mill. An infinity of noises smiting upon the ear. ceaseless, never-ending, repetitive; the hum of myriads of wheels, whirling with spokes indistinguishable; the sung of belts gliding endlessly aloft, swinging from wheel to wheel; ibe noise of the beets, as churning and splashing through the water, they are inevitably drawn into … Read more