1876 (continued) – Charles Moss's lease is up at the wharf, but he does not renew. He sells his interests to the Steamship Company for $250,000 and leaves. David Jacks sells “The Island” (the penninsula at Moss Landing) to them for $14,000. S.N. Laughlin becomes the new agent.


A lighter arrives in Moss Landing, where its cargo of grain is off-loaded onto narrow guage rail cars, which will take it to the wharf.

A view of the wharf at Moss Landing shows grain sacks on flat-bed rail cars along one side and a second set of narrow-guage rails. The freight cars were pulled by horses because the wharf would not support the weight of a locomotive.

Another view of Moss landing, from the rigging of a ship.