Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1893
". . . August 1, 1891, . . . the Southern Pacific began an oceanographic survey just west of Santa Monica Canyon . . .
"Collis P. Huntington, at the helm of the railroad, . . . By 1892 construction of the Long Wharf was well underway . . .
". . . [briefly] the Long Wharf actually was the port of Los Angeles after its completion in 1893.