Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977, 603 pp., 1909, 1890, 1889
Part I: 1881-1917
"In 1890, the Southern Pacific's monopoly over harbor lands in San Pedro was about to be broken. That year, a syndicate of St. Louis capitalists incorporated the Los Angeles Terminal Railway Corporation, . . . from Glendale . . . to a point just opposite San Pedro.
" . . . In April 1890, at a SP board of directors' meeting, Collis (C.P.) Huntington replaced Leland Stanford as president of the company . . .
" . . . Huntington . . . began to buy and lease land in the Santa Monica area. Twenty-five miles up the coast from San Pedro, the community of Santa Monica had become a favorite beach resort of many inland residents of Southern California. In 1875 Nevada Senator John P. Jones, a Santa Monica landowner, in conjunction with several local businessmen, had constructed a 1,800-foot wharf and a railroad to connect the town to Los Angeles . . . the Southern Pacific bought Jones' properties."