Los Angeles Times The Development of the Southwest, in the fields of industry and capital, Enterprise and Production, June 26, 1898, p. 12.
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Klamdike
According to the Santa Monica Outlook, this is the name given by the professional clam-diggers to their settlement on the sand dunes near Ballona Harbor. Five or six tents constitute the village, where inhabitants are composed of about a dozen men, women and children, with their horses and dogs. At low tide they make for the water, and hurriedly dig their clams which they place in tubs of ocean water to clean from sand. At one o’clock in the morning the loaded wagons start for Los Angeles, reaching their in time for the opening of the markets and restaurants. The life is a laborious, and yet an independent one, for the stock in trade is furnished by the ocean free of charge, the expense being to the handling of the product. The clams wholesale at 50 cents per hundred pounds, and retail at a cent per pound. The settlement is worth visiting.
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. . . 1898