Oakland Ferry | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

Oakland Ferry.

IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BE MADE—FIFTEEN MINUTE TRIPS.

THE task of filling in the wharf of the Oakland ferry to the old Cohen landing, started some two months since by the Central Pacific Railroad Co., is progressing rapidly, and already nearly 100,000 cubic yards of rock and adobe, taken from one of the Contra Costa hills, near Niles, has been dumped into the bay. It is estimated that 1,000,000 cubic yards will be required to fill in to the old Cohen landing, which is about a mile out from Oakland Point. The work is a gigantic one, and is of the utmost importance to Oakland. A space wide enough to lay six tracks will be made, thus doing away with Long Wharf, and rendering railroad travel from the ferry perfectly safe. Upon the end of this rocky peninsula the company proposes to erect a large depot. The bottom of the bay up to the old Cohen landing will be dredged out so that the ferry steamers may go to it instead of landing where they do at present. The work of filling in, will require a year of work yet. As soon as the landing is completed the Railroad Company expects to run boats across the bay every fifteen minutes, in order to accommodate the fast increasing travel to Oakland and Alameda.