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HOUSTONPORTBOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 21 In August 1950, the Port of Houston completed its 35th ships passing through the Canal, yet it is well knownthat one of year as a deep sea port. It was on August 19, 1915 that the the prime reasons for the construction of the Canal was so our SATILLAmade the first regularly scheduled deep-sea sailing Navy could move quickly from the Atlantic to the Pacific or down the Houston Ship Channel, bound for Philadelphia with vice versa. National Defense should share in the costs of the general cargo. Canal. Five years later, in 1920, the commerce of the Port of A revision of the policy on tolls is being considered in Houston amounted to only a million tons; yet in 1948 it reached Washington by both the Senate Armed Services Committee and a peak of over 39 million tons, dropping slightly in 1949, as a House Subcommittee. Either H. R. 8677 or S. 3649 which in most ports that year, making Houston second only to the have been introduced in Congress will, if enacted, provide some Port of New York in total tonnage as a deep-sea port. Remem- measure of relief. The Port of Houston has gone on record ber, too, that the Port of New York comprises many smaller as strongly approving this revision of the Government’s policy ports all within 25 miles of the Battery at the foot of Man- on Panama Canal tolls. hattan Island. Port Newark, Bayonne, Weehawken, Hoboken, FEDERALCLAIMS TO PORTS etc., over on the Jersey side, are all included in the Port of NewYork’s statistics. Whowill estimate what our tonnage will All the seaports are justifiably alarmed over a statement be in 1965 when the Port of Houston reaches 50 years of age? from Washington that the final claims of the Federal Govern- We all know that much of the commerce of the Port of ment will be not only to the marginal seas (erroneously called Houston has been "wet" cargo; that too little of it has been ’~Tidelands") but also to the bays and harbors. Such an invasion import; and that much of the traffic to the great hinterland of state and local rights would have. appeared impossible only behind the Port of Houston has come through other ports, es- a few years ago. Today it is a definite danger. Howwould you pecially New York, when it could have been better shipped like to see your port enmeshed in a maze of Federal regulations? direct to the Port of Houston and moved thence by rail or How many weeks (or months) would it take, under such cir- cumstances, to have a simple change in Port Tariff approved truck to the interior, or vice versa. and promulgated? All the Ports should join now in a vigorous The Port of Houston is proud of being No. 1 Oil Port of fight to see that jurisdiction over them does not become in- the World. Few realize that the percentage of oil and oil pro- volved in the Federal grab for the States’ rich oil deposits. ducts ("wet" cargo) through the Por~ has decreased from Jurisdiction over our seaports would be a bigger prize for Fed- to 95 per cent in the ~’thirties" to around 74 per cent today. eral bureaucracy to grab than even the oil deposits. Wake up, Houston is no longer just an Oil Port. Cotton, grain, lumber, Seaports! and many chemical products go towards making up the other 26 per cent, and these are on the increase. Moreover this "wet" THE KOREAN WAR cargo does mean much to the industries of this community since Less than five years since VJ day of World War II we are 95 per cent of it is processed in some form or other in the Great- again embroiled in a war--not just a police action. Howour er Houston area. Only about five per cent moves out of the nation handles this Korean War may well determine whether we Port in the crude state. In other words, these manufactured oil will be plunged ahead into another World War. The Port of products mean a great deal of employment in the refineries as Houston stands ready to give efficient shipping service today well as money to the community in the crew wages and ship or tomorrow whether connected with the war or with our civil supplies o~ the many incoming and outgoing tankers. "Wet" effort. SHIP VIA THE PORT OF HOUSTON! cargo means business to the community even though it is more "bulk" than general cargo. PANAMACANAL TOLLS For more than two years the question of reducing Panama Canal tolls for commercial shipping has been under discussion in Washington. In the past, tolls have been expected to cover interest on the entire capital investment in the Panama Canal as well as its operating expenses. The Navypays no tolls for its HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 22 RT Official Publication o[ the Harris CountyHouston Ship ChannelNavigation District

Volume 28 Number2

FOREWORD: OCTOBER,1950 THE HOUSTON PORT BOOK is pub- Port Manager’s Page lished in April and October of each ...... 22 Directory of Port Officials ...... year under contract and authority of 24 World Trade Is a 2-WayStreet the Navigation and Canal Commission By Sydnor Oden ...... 25 and through the cooperation of the ship- The Port Commission...... 26 ping and industrial interests of Houston. Houston Should be Port of Embarkation ...... 27 As the official magazine of the Harris The Chief ...... 28 County Navigation District, this publica- Man-of-War in Mufti ...... 29 tion is intended to carry authoritative CAPT. CROTTY...... 30 descriptions, notices and articles in re- Ethyl Corporation Plant Underway...... 32 gard to the activities of the port and the Industrial Mapof the Port Area ...... 34 port development. However, the Com- CompleteFacilities Serve World Traders ...... 35 missioners cannot be responsible in all Administration of the Port ...... 38 respects for the contents thereof, or for CustomCollections Up ...... 39 the opinions of writers to whom expres- Propeller Club Notes ...... 41 sion is given. Description of the Port ...... 42 The publication is distributed free to Lykes Liners in Naval Reserve ...... 42 maritime, transportation and industrial AmongPort Visitors ...... 44 interests in the United States and foreign Wharvesand Terminal Facilities ...... 46 countries. Its purpose is to inform ship- Upper Channel Map ...... 48 pers and others interested in the Port of NewA. O. Smith Pipe Mill in Production ...... 49 Houston of its development, charges and Shipping Services ...... other matters of interest, and inquiries SO It SeemsLike Only Yesterday -- Remember?...... will at all times be welcome. 54 Charges for Vessels ...... Additional copies of this publication 55 Maritime Interests & Foreign Consulates ...... may be had upon application to the 58 General Manager, P. O. Box 9187, Hous- Freight Forwarders & Brokers ...... 60 ton 11, Texas, or: Kollcer Chemical Building Plant Here ...... 61 Houston Chamberof Commerce...... 62 DOW WYNN, Private Terminal & Industrial Facilities ...... 63 Editor Index to Advertisers ...... P. o. BOX9187, 68 HOUSTON 11, TEXAS PHONE WE-6661 THE COVER LEE M. WEBB, Chile’s amiable President Gabriel GonzalesVidela, cen- Business Manager ter, "looks Houstonover" in companywith HoustonCHRONI- 542 M & M BUILDING, HOUSTON 2, TEXAS CLEEditor M. E. Walter, at left, and MayorOscar Holcombe, PHONE FAIRF^X 2348 at right. Photo: courtesy of the CHRONICLE.

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 A DIRECTORYOF

OF THE OF HOUSTON

Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District BOARD OF NAVIGATION & CANAL COMMISSIONERS WARRENS. BELLOWS,Chairman

W. L. WALKER SEWALL MYER L. G. SANDERS L. E. DEATS EXECUTIVEOFFICERS

GEN. W. F. HEAVEY,General Manager FULLBRIGHT-CROOKER-FREEMAN& BATES, Counsel H.L. WASHBURN, Auditor VERNONBAILEY, Director of Port Operations G. P. SIMPSON, Chief Engineer Dow WYNN, Executive Assistant W.F. LAND, Terminal Superintendent W. J. PRICE, Maintenance Engr. T.E. WHATLEY,Office Manager W.L. FELLRATH,Supt. Grain Elevator

PORTOFFICES

TERMINAL SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE ...... North Side Turning Basin, Gate 8 Telephone WE ntworth 1687 GRAIN ELEVATOROFFICE ...... North Side Turning Basin Telephone WO odcrest 1708 FIREBOAT "CAPT. CROTTY"...... Telephone PReston 2323, Station 21 INSPECTION BOAT "SAM HOUSTON," Master ...... CAPT. ROBERTE. MARSHALL

HARBORPATROL CRAFT, Master ...... CAPT. Louis O. DESHAZO HOUSTON PORT AND TRAFFIC BUREAU G. K. REEDER,General Manager ...... Cotton Exchange Building H. B. CUMMINS,Manager Traffic Department ...... Cotton Exchange Building MAXH. JACOBS, Director of Information ...... City National Bank Building W. W. RICHARDS, Eastern Representative ...... 17 Battery Place, New York City LLOYDL. LEONARD,Southwestern Representative ...... Board of Trade Bldg., Kansas City, Missouri

EXECUTIVE OFFICES:

2ND FLOOR WHARF 13--NORTH SIDE TURNING BASIN Telephone WE ntworth 6661 P. O. Box 9187, Houston 11, Texas

24 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 Thebroad artery of InternationalCommerce links Houston with all Nationsof theFree World By SYDNORODEN Chairman, Foreign Trade Committee Houston Chamber of Commerce

Statistics become startling when they try to describe the world to study the developing possibilities of moving their com- growth of the Port of Houston. However, only impartial and modities into the U. S. through the port of Houston. impersonal statistics can prove that the dramatic story of Hous- Even the oldest ports of the nation would be proud to boast ton is really true. Seeing is believing and those who see Houston such a record. But the record becomes an even greater achieve- are astonished but convinced. So, for those who have not yet ment because it was accomplished within the last 35 years. seen Houston, here are the almost incredible figures. None of About three dozen years ago, Houston was an inland city on these statistics were compiled in Houston--these are the statistics the narrow and winding tidewaters of Buffalo Bayou. At that of the Government of the United States. time, the man-made Houston Ship Channel was dredged 50 Official U. S. Department of Commercefigures prelimi- miles downstream- at a million dollars a mile- to Galveston narily revealed early this year that Houston, second greatest Bay and thence to the Gulf of Mexico beyond Galveston Island port in total tonnage in the nation, had increased its 1949 for- at the bay’s mouth. Since that time the channel and facilities eign trade tonnage 299~: over 1948. Of the major ports, New have received constant and increasingly costly improvements. York, Baltimore, New Orleans and Galveston all reflected de- Also since that time, less than half a century ago, the Port of clines in foreign trade for 1949. Philadelphia, with an increase Houston has surpassed rival ports many times its age to become of 137~--less than half of Houston’s increase percentage-wise second greatest port in the nation. Truly a towering achieve- --was the only other port registering an increase. Third in the ment. nation’s export tonnage, the Port of Houston was outstripped But the present rating of the Port of Houston assumes even only by New York and Baltimore with Galveston in fourth greater stature when it is realized that during the years of position and NewOrleans fifth. These figures showed Houston’s World War II a rival port on the Gulf Coast was designated import tonnage increasing 246~ to rank this port as fifth in the official Port of Embarkation which resulted not only in the nation in imports. heavy cargo tonnage losses but the even more important losses Truly, these are startling statistics of progress. But only of facilities and offices which followed the arbitrary redirection recently, revised figures have been released by the authoritative of trade. This statement in no way implies that any sacrifice of U. S. Army Engineers from the Galveston headquarters. This war-time efficiency should be considered to benefit a particular more recent revision of official U. S. Government figures shows locality but the surprising and gratifying degree to which the that Houston’s 1949 foreign trade increased not 29~ over Port of Houston has overcome this handicap is a point of pride 1948 but 49.317~,. These statistics now reveal that Houston’s with Houstonians. export tonnage increased more than a million tons over 1948. How did all this happen? Howdoes a deepwater port sur- Imports increased not merely 246% but an almost unbelievable pass its keenly competitive rivals to attain rank of second U. S. 360~. port in total tonnage? Especially, how can a port become the This import increase is tremendously important to all for- nation’s third port in exports and fifth port in imports in a eign interests planning to merchandise in the U. S. domestic brief thirty-five years of competition against ports established market--Houston is the gateway for rich, great, and growing much longer? And what sort of dynamic and aggressive pro- Mid-Continent America stretching from the Appalachians to gram could bring a port back to supremacy on the Gulf Coast the Rockies and from Canada to Mexico. The enormous and after its chief competitor had fortuitously received the cargo significant increase in imports through Houston has brought concentrations of several wartime years? The dramatic story of businessmen and government representatives from all over the Houston is the story of many organizations working together ¯ Continuedon Page32

SydnorOden stands well oversix feet in height, toweringeven above the average Texan,who is notedas well for his altitudeas for his prideof state. Mr. Odenoccupies no smallniche in his community;mention of a fewof his activities bespeakshis civic stature. He’sa largefellow, anywayyou /oak at it. Professionallyhe’s Vice President of Anderson,Clayton & Co., Inc., a positionhe acquiredby dlnt of hardwork, having begun his careerwith that firm asoffice boyin 1920.Among his extra-currlcularactivities, Mr. Odenis Chairmanof the ForeignTrade Committee of the HoustonChamber of Commerce; Director of the HoustonChamber of Commerce;Chairman, Houston Committee on Foreign Relations;Ylce Chairman of the InternationalCommittee of the HoustonFat StockShow. He’sno strangerin worldtrade circles anywhere,and at the presenttime is a Directorof the HationalForeign Trade Council. In addition, Mr. Odenis Past-Presldentof the HoustonForeign Trade Association: Past-President, American Chamber of Commercefor Italy; andPast-President of the TexasCotton Shippers Association. Behind the "startling statistical growth"outlined in Mr. Oden’sarticle lie manyyears of hardwork by this, one of Houston’sbusiest businessmen, who dedicates most of his time to Houston’swelfare, world-tradewiseand otherwise.

HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER,19ff0 25 MEN OF ALL WORK: The Port (ommission

Fifty-two Thursdays per year find them in regular session. Houston’s growth but to contribute to it from a civic as well as They serve entirely without compensation and their contribu- a business standpoint. Long active in the Houston Chamber of tions of time and energy and that of their predecessors have Commerce, he served as a director of that organization from built a great seaport on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. 1942 to 1947, and as Chamber president from 1947 to 1949. In Elsewhere in these pages will be mentioned the manner of the national limelight, Mr. Bellows served as president of the their appointment, their functions and responsibilities, but here Associated General Contractors of America in 1946. Were this we would pay brief personal tribute to the Port Commissioners. entire article devoted to the Chairman, we could not cover his Their more formal title as bestowed by the State Legislature is many accomplishments in his profession nor his contributions the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners, and around to his community. The character of the man is evidenced in the Navigation District offices they are collectively referred to his assuming the often thankless and always demanding position as ’*the Board." of Chairman of the Port Commission. No collective reference can very well describe the five busy Over in the Eastern sections of Harris County, most par- men who comprise the group, and we pause here to give them ticularly in Baytown and La Porte, they refer to L. G. Sanders the individual recognition that has long been their due. It will as *’the Prof." This erstwhile schoolteacher has long been active be noted that this magazine is the official publication of the in the civic affairs of the Tri-cities area, and has served as a Navigation District, whose governing body and the subject of member of the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners these remarks bear no responsibility for the contents hereof. It since July, 1946. He is owner of the Culpepper Furniture Com- has perhaps occurred to many of them that their Port Book pany of Baytown, prominent in numerous local activities and Editor is given considerably more leeway than is always justified. is one man who has had as much if not more to do than anyone That may very well be their reaction to this article. Wecare- in bringing about the construction of the two vehicular tunnels fully and probably inadvisedly failed to get their approval prior under the Houston Ship Channel. to publication. Commissioner W. L. Walker joined the board at the same The Board’s new Chairman took office in July, 1950. His time Mr. Sanders was appointed, in July, 1946. The second initial nameand reputation are well knownnationally as well as locally. might very well stand for **longevity" for this busy cotton Warren S. Bellows is a big fellow who has done big things all broker. A few weeks prior to his appointment as Commissioner, his life and who today heads one of the largest construction he formed his own cotton firm, but for the preceding 39 years, companies in America. Manyof Texas’ most magnificent edifices Mr. Walker ably and loyally served the internationally-known were erected by him, among them the City National Bank of cotton firm of Alexander Sprunt & Sons. Eighteen of those Houston, the San Jacinto Monument, numerous hotels and var- years were abroad, in Holland, Germany and Italy. Mr. Walker ious buildings on the campus of Texas A. & M., the University came to Houston in 1924 to continue in the service of Sprunt & of Texas and Southern Methodist University. This transplanted Sons. At the time of his retirement from the firm in 1946 he Kansan came to Houston 27 years ago and a quarter-century was Vice President and Manager of the Houston office and of Houston’s spectacular growth and development are evidence President of the Ship Channel Compress Company, Houston’s of his presence and activities. He came not only to profit by oldest private shipping terminal. The quiet conservative in this

THEY GUIDE THE DESTINIES OF A GREATOCEAN PORT

Photographed at their August 3, 1950 session are, from left to right, seated: Cmsr. W. L. Walker, Cmsr. L. E. Deats, Chairman Warren S. Bellows, Cmsr. L. G. Sanders, Cmsr. Sewall Myer; standing, from left to right, General Manager W. F. Heavey, Counsel Charles E. Bell, Assistant Counsel John Singleton, and Vernon Bailey, Director of Port Operations.

26 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 group of five versatile and not altogether-involatile gentlemen, Mr. Walker has the Port of Houston’s best interests always at heart and personally cherishes the Port’s often-held position of America’s Number One Cotton Port. "The Judge" became Port Commissioner on May 14, 1947. Sewall Myer has been around these parts perhaps a few years more than he would care to mention, but his name is synony- mous with the latter-day history of Houston. Old-timers will recall that he was city attorney during one of the earlier terms of Houston’s venerable Mayor Oscar Holcombe, and the record reveals that he has been a highly important fixture in the Bayou City since 1906. As a matter of fact, he helped draft the bill which, when passed by the State Legislature, created the Navi- gation District, and he can clearly rememberthe auspicious day in November, 1914 when the new 25-foot Houston Ship Chan- nel was dedicated. Judge Myer is one of this city’s busiest and most prominent barristers. His keen judgment, progressive spirit and legal acumen have been important factors in the Port’s progress and development. It is no reflection upon the garb and appearance of his fel- low board members to state that Lawton E. Deats is the fashion plate of the group. Some would even argue that Prof. Sanders would vie with him for that honor. Be that as it may, this busy Houston oilman has given one day per week, or a large part of it, to the taxpayers of Harris County since his appointment to the Board in mid-1947. One of that great tribe of Texans known as "A. & M. men," Commissioner Deats rounds out the group. The owner of the L. E. Deats Oil Company, he has been in the wholesale oil and gasoline business in Houston for two decades. More than one wise decision of the Board has stemmed from his sage advice as a practical and aggressive businessman. WILSONG. SAVlLLE We do not say that Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman and Bates is the finest legal firm in Texas, but we say that it is in our His four years as Port CommissionChairman were opinion. This story would not be complete without mention of the greatest in Houston’s history. Charles E. "Charley" Bell, partner in that firm and Navigation District Counsel. A man of blunt frankness and no wasted hower’s staff as Chief of Engineers’ Operations and Planning words, he has been described by fellow members of his profes- Division. One year after leaving the Army and returning to sion as the "best trial lawyer in the State of Texas." Wetake Houston, he was appointed Port Commission Chairman. Long no issue with that statement. His great-grandfather was Stephen active in civic affairs, he is at the present time a Director of the F. Austin’s counsel and in our opinion "Charley" simply knows Houston Chamber of Commerce. The Colonel is a practical, no peers, even amonghis illustrious ancestry. busy man. He has no time for trivia, and will probably refer Fulbright, Crooker and partners include a great number of to these sentiments as "hogwash." As a matter of fact, it is lawyers among their staff, and we hesitate to mention any of doubtful that he will read them at all. Nevertheless we exercise them individually for fear of omitting reference to several of our unfettered editorial prerogative in speaking the sentiments those who serve the District in some way or other. Neverthe- of the Commissioners and the Staff of the Navigation District; less, Assistant Counsel Walter Morrison and Assistant Counsel he will be missed. John Singleton merit especial mention here. The affairs of the It is no easy task to eulogize one’s bosses. None of them District are frequently complex ones, made the less so by the seek publicity nor personal aggrandizement, nor compensation "disensnarling" efforts of the three able attorneys above for their efforts. The position of Port Commissioneris an honor- referred to. able, respected one, at Port of Houston. But the demands of the This story would be incomplete without mentioning the position are many and heavy, as any former Commissioner will "Chairman Emeritus" of the Port Commission, Col. Wilson G. tell you. We have had mighty fines ones, too.--D. W. Saville. "Bumptious" is one way he has been described, and we like that picture of him. It depends on your definition of the word but to us it conveys the keen and dynamic nature of the Colonel. After four years as Chairman, Col. Saville retired from HOUSTONSHOULD BE PORT the Board in July of this year, to the great regret of his fellow members. One glimpse of the Colonel in action will indicate why OF EMBARKATION his medical friends may have ordered him to slacken the pace Port authorities and civic planners of Houston for the past of his many activities, if they did. Bluff, quick, hearty by decade have realized the multifold advantages of designating nature, he has the unusual ability to combine dead seriousness the Bayou Port as a Port of Embarkation. To date, the federal with sudden, sharp good humor. His West Point education and government hasn’t. Many logical reasons exists, justifying the military background, coupled with his years of experience in creation of a second Gulf Coast P. O. E., reasons which in the private business characterized his Chairmanship of the Board. minds of progressive and far-sighted Houstonians more than Graduating from the Military Academy in 1918, the Colonel offset the extra cost involved in maintaining duplicate facilities came to Houston in 1921, when he became associated with the of this type in close proximity, one to the other. Amerada Petroleum Corporation. After five years with that For one thing, on cargoes emanating from or moving to company., he resigned to organize his own geophysical consulting territory west of the Mississippi, there will be a definite econ- firm, now the Gravity Meter Exploration Company. This was omyin transportation as a result of shorter rail hauls, not to the first Geophysical consulting company established in the mention the eased congestion of the rails as a result of utilizing United States. In World War II he served as U. S. District Engi- two ports. neer in Galveston, and in 1944-45 he served on General Eisen- ¯ Conlinued on Page 29

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 27 MajorGeneral Lewis A. Pick Chief of Engineers,U. S. Army Tkeamazing fellow who builtthe Ledo Road and

said"No" ~0Gen. pershing

also directs extensive military constructions, the handling of military equipment and a variety of other jobs. But getting big, tough jobs done has been the hallmark of General Pick’s career. Early in World War 1I, he was sent to the Omaha District as District Engineer, and a month later was ordered to reorganize and expand the entire Missouri River Division. He put into effect the largest building program ever undertaken in the Middle-West, with the work of the Division U. S. ArmyPholograph increased more than 500 per cent. The entire program amount- ing to approximately a billion and a half dollars, including more A man who just casually "joined up" for World War I than 200 projects, was maintained ahead of war-time schedules. and then found himself with plenty to do, now has a job that’s But even this gigantic military construction program a bit like the "Old WomanWho Lived in a Shoe." Only he’s couldn’t keep Pick, then a colonel, from studying and ex- got more projects than the Old Womanhad children--and he pounding the need for a more logical development of the mighty knows what to do. Missouri’s soil-muddied waters. The demand for something bet- He is Major General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of the Army ter than the old-fashioned method of basin work by sectional Engineers, and leader in the work of harnessing the country’s projects and individual agencies occupied a large share of his unruly rivers and putting them to work. "Nature has done her time. He drew up a comprehensive plan for the river basin into part in America exceedingly well," he never tires of explaining, which could be fitted the plans of other interested Federal and "but the full use of her abundance is up to us. The whole his- State agencies, to provide a fully coordinated program for the tory of river development and the beneficial uses to which these development of the entire river valley. developments have been put justify large scale planning for the But at this time, while the now famous Pick Plan was en future." route through proper channels to Congress for consideration, an A big man, with quizzical blue eyes and the soft speech of acute condition developed in the China-India-Burma theater of his native Virginia, General Pick looks even bigger than his the war, and Pick was ordered to report immediately to General six feet and 190 pounds. Aside from graying hair and lines left "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell. The meeting between the fighting gen- by the years, he hasn’t changed much from the days he played eral and his just-arrived Colonel of Engineers has become a tackle and was captain of the football team at Virginia Poly- classic. technic Institute. He weighed 188 then, was selected for the "Can you build me a jeep road to such-and-such a place All-Conference team, had a four-year batting average of .308 by December?" Stilwell asked. in baseball, and "fooled around some with weights and discus," "No, sir." (his 117 feet was the school record for many years). "What?" A big man himself, he likes to command big men. In "No, sir," Pick repeated, "but I can build you a truck France, as Captain of Company E of the 23rd Engineers, he road by that time." drew up his company for an inspection by General Pershing. The famed Ledo Road that the experts had said couldn’t "The General walked through the open ranks," General be built was finished ahead of time. Pick nowrecalls. ’°He had to tilt his head to see the men of the With the China-Burma job completed, General Pick was First Platoon. Those men were six-foot, two. The Second Pla- brought back to the United States and returned to the Missouri toon was all six-footers, and the Third just a shadow under." River Division and its far-flung military and civil projects. Un- "They’re a good-looking bunch of men," General Persh- der his leadership, the plan that was to become popularly known ing told him. "Do you drill them much?" as the Pick-Sloan Plan, but is better described as the Inter- "No, sir." Agency Plan, was authorized by Congress and developed into "Why not?" what has become one of the most comprehensive, far-sighted "Sir, we’re too damned busy working." plans for river basin development yet devised. Pershing made no comment, but a little later he selected In February, 1949, the President appointed General Pick as Pick’s company to be honor guard when he addressed the 81st Chief of Engineers, a position that requires a man accustomed Division. to big jobs and the directing of large forces. Today, simultan- Today, General Pick is still "damned busy" working. As eous with the Corps’ military assignments, the General has Chief of Engineers, he has charge of construction and mainten- charge of approximately 2,300 authorized civil works projects, ance of the huge, nation-wide network of river and harbor with an estimated cost of about five billion dollars. Flood con- facilities for navigation, flood control and related benefits. He trol in 14 watersheds of the Southwest and navigation along the

28 HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 Gulf Coast are two principle units of this vast, nation-wide pro- gram. HOUSTONSHOULD BE P.O.E. At 59, General Pick is lively, vigorous and handsome, a (Continued from Page 27) man loyal to his work and to his friends. He is a great story teller and has a fine sense of humor that often brings a dis- Secondly, but perhaps most important, the ever-present counting twinkle to his eyes when banquet toastmasters pile on shadow of World War III, sharpened by the threat of atomic praise. Yet his Southern drawl can pick up fire and brimstone attack on the continental United States, certainly demands that when something goes wrong. He likes golf, hunting and fish- "all our eggs be removed from one basket," in this respect. Cer- ing, but seldom has time for any of it. tainly the elimination of two vital ports would be less likely to General Pick graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute occur than the destruction of one such facility. Guardians of in 1914, and his first engineering job was on the Southern Rail- the Defense Dollar find their arguments shattered when they way. He joined the Corps of Engnieers as a first lieutenant in point to added costs of protecting a Houston P. O. E. The tre- World War I and was among the first to see action in France. mendous, even fabulous concentration of vital industries at Port In the course of a well-rounded military engineering career of Houston demands the utmost protection, regardless of the thereafter, he was graduated from the Army’s Engineer School, P. O. E. question. Hence not one thin dime of defense expendi- Commandand General Staff School and War College. He spent tures could be tagged against the P. O. E. alone. four years at Texas A. & M. organizing and instructing a Re- Texas Congressmen and Senators have been armed with serve Officers Engineer Training Unit. solid facts and figures proving the wisdom of creating a Port Born at Brookneal, Virginia, November 18, 1890, he was of Embarkation at Houston. The issue is clearly not one which married in 1925 to Miss Alice Cary, while on duty at the Ala- should create a controversy between Houston and its splendid bama Polytechnic Institute. Their only child, Lewis Andrew II, old competitor, Port of New Orleans. The issue involves the was graduated this year from the U. S. Military Academy at nation’s security, first, last and foremost. "Business As Usual" West Point. When the general retires, which we hope will not is a sign not to be displayed in time of war at either port, both be for several years, he says he wants to go to Auburn, Alabama, of which are capable and ready to serve America and the entire his wife’s home, or to a farm in Virginia. free world, in peace or war.--D. W. HOLLAND-AMERICA’S Man-of-War in Mufti No stranger in Houston waters is the Netherlands S. S. cording to the new schedule, Holland-America now has a sail- "ALBLASSERDYK"of Holland-America Lines. Her graceful ing each week from the Gulf to Antwerp, Ghent and Rotter- lines and boomysuperstructure belie her great history, for this dam-Amsterdam, as well as thrice-monthly sailings to Bremen swift courier of the cargo lanes was once the floating haven and Hamburg and two sailings per month to London. One of for dozens of British naval aviators who knew her as His the oldest lines serving the Port of Houston, Holland-America Majesty’s Ship "TRUMPETER,"baby-flattop of World War has maintained a service from Gulf and Mexican ports since II. 1912. In addition to providing facilities for handling a wide The big vessel, like her several sister ships serving Houston variety of cargo, many of its vessels provide comfortable, mod- and other Gulf ports, is 492 feet long, with a beam of 69y,_ ern accommodations for a limited number of transatlantic pas- feet and a draft of 29½ feet. Unbelievably, her speed is 17ye sengers. knots, and she typifies the excellent steamship service offered Houston agent for Holland-America is Texas Transport & through Houston by Holland-America, which increased this Terminal Co., Inc., with offices in the Cotton Exchange Build- service from three to four sailings per month last May. Ac- ing.

HOLLAND-AMERICA’S S/S "ALBLASSERDYK’" HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 29 FOUR DECADESOF HIS BUSY LIFETIME WEREDEDICATED TO BUILDING PORT OF HOUSTON

The tall, balding gentleman stood hatless in the hot August sun, his hat in hand, as he faced the crowd of spectators clus- tered in the shade of the wharfshed. His glance swept across the waters of the turning basin, taking in the busy wharves and the several ships working cargo alongside them. His thoughts and then his words drifted back over half-a-century, when the very spot on which he stood was a weed-ridden patch of sand on the ragged banks of a shallow, winding bayou. To many of those who listened, it was a brief, relatively simple story he told, of that day many years ago when he had staked out what today is a great body of water, a quarter-mile wide, the head of deep-water at the Port of Houston. But to the old-timers present, like old "Cap" Raezor--still an active fixture on Navi- gation District wharves--and others, it was no simple story at all. Far from it. Some day, Captain Charles Crotty may write his memoirs. More than one person has begged his permission to collaborate on the project, and he has given some thought to the task. If the realm of reading is ever enhanced by a Crotty Story, there’ll be a tale for the chroniclers of Texas History to peruse. If they burrow deep enough through the modesty of the Captain, they’ll discover how much one man can mean to his community, state and country. Captain Crotty has served them all, and well. Weneed no dates nor statistics to record his service. It in- cludes two wars and construction assignments in more countries than we can mention, from Saint Mihiel to Manila--India, Cuba, China amongthem. In all his years of soldiering, of which he is justifiably proud, he considers himself blessed by fortunate as-

At the helmof the newfireboat followingthe ceremoniesare Captainand Mrs. CharlesCrotty, at top. Center, GeneralW. F. Heavey,Houston’s Port Director,pays the respectsof the Navigation District to CaptainCrotty anddescribes the modernfirefighting characteristics of the newvessel. Prior to the ceremonies,the Crottys were feted at luncheonby the Port Commissionersand enjoyeda brief trial spin aboardthe craft after the dedicatory program. Below, the CAPT.CROTTY puts up a fine sprayof waterin the publicdemonstra- tion of its prowess.The most modern fire- boat afloat, the CAPT. CROTTYwas de- signed by prominent Naval Architect ThomasE. Bowes,and built at the R.T.C. Shipyardsin Camden,New Jersey, at a cost of $187,500. CaptainRobert E. Marshall, masterof the Port Commission’sInspection Boat SAMHOUSTON brought the CAPT. CROTTYfrom Camdento Houston under its own power, a 2,029-mile shakedown cruise markedby high winds and rough water. Althoughdesigned for calm chan- nel use, the sturdy vessel took turbulent seasoff the Carolinasin stride, frequently shipping "green water" over the pilot house.Captain Marshall’s log of the trip on those occasionsis one for the record books.

30 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 AS A LASTING TRIBUTE THE PORT’S SWIFT, NEW FIREBOAT IS GIVEN HIS NAME

signments: missions which, as he told the crowd gathered in his honor, always required his building something never destroy- ing, never tearing down. Here at Port of Houston, Captain Crotty had a hand in building the wide, deep channel that pushes fifty miles inland from the Gulf. For more than two decades he served as Assist- ant Port Director and brought his engineering talents closer to the people of Houston, who coaxed him away from his treasured Army assignment in the U. S. District Engineer office at Galveston. Captain Crotty neither needs nor wants monuments to his honor here or elsewhere. From their small rancho in the hills near Ingrain, Texas, the Crottys have all the kudos they desire in the many friends who never pass their way without stopping, and who write them often. These parts abound with the friends of the Crottys. Wehave a new fireboat that is about the slickest craft of its kind afloat. It is sturdy, fast, compact, and efficient, an en- gineering marvel as a matter of fact. Only 79 feet, 4 inches long with a 19-foot beam and ll-foot draft, the firefighter will clip off 17 knots under forced draft. In 20 minutes, it can cover four acres with a foot of foam and can throw 6000 gal- lons of water per minute at 150 pounds pressure. Other special features include asbestos fireman suits, oxyacetylene cutting torches, respirators, etc. It is not a monument,but a tangible and definite asset. It will be in service a long, long time, and it will always be doing, never undoing. Those are two of the many reasons we named it the CAPT. CROTTY.

Seen in the top photo makinga sharp turn at half-speed during the public spraying demonstration,the CAPT.CROTTY is especially designedand equipped to fight oil andchemical fires whichmay arise amongPort Houston’sdozens of great industrial plants. Threetimes as fast as its 24-year-oldpredecessor, the new fireboat wasnamed by the Commissionersupon suggestions o~ CaptainJohn Jacobson of TexasCity and W. E. Vennell of Hous- ton. In the namingcontest, morethan ~0 entries weremade, the winning prize being a ride on the new craft followingthe dedicatoryprogram. Cap- tain Jacobsonwas out of the ci:y at the time, but co-winnerand Mrs. Vermeilwere on handfor the occasion. At right center, Captain Crotty re- countshis long years at Port of Houston andexpresses appreciation for the honor accordedhim. Mrs. Crotty, nearly hidden beneathorchid andred roses, wasa proud listener. Scoresof old friendsof the Crottys were present, including several whomthey hadn’t seenfor years. Below,one view of the crowd huddle@in the shadowso~ NavigationDistrict Wharfshed~. HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 31 AND YET ANOTHER: ETH:YLCORPORATION PLANT UNDERWAY

Sixteen months hence, a huge new plant will open its gates, petroleum gasses. Lead will be shipped in pigs from Western the most recent multi-million-dollar addition to Port of Hous- American and Mexican smelters. Salt brine will be piped from ton’s growing industrial family. nearby wells and petroleum hydrocarbons needed will be pur- The Ethyl Corporation, world’s largest producer of anti- chased from local oil refineries. An estimated 100,000,000 knock compounds for gasoline, is in process of constructing a pounds of tetraethyl lead, sodium-lead alloy, sodium, chlorine huge new chemical plant on their 400-acre site located between and ethyl chloride will flow from the plant annually; auxiliary Phillips Terminal and Shell Oil Company’srefinery on the south units will include a blender for mixing tetraethyl lead with bank of the Houston Ship Channel. Initial cost of the plant is ethylene dibromide and ethylene dichloride in the production of estimated at $15,000,000 to $20,000,000, and it is understood the Ethyl compounds. that the initial unit may be doubled in size and capacity in the An additional reason for locating the plant here, according to future. The plant will produce tetraethyl lead, ethyl chloride, Mr. Turner, was that of strengthening the nation’s defense posi- sodium and chlorine used in the process for producing the tion by providing another independent source of a highly im- Ethyl compounds. portant chemical material, adjacent to plants requiring the ma- B. Bynum Turner, general manager of Ethyl’s manufac- terial for their own highly important production. The Baton turing department, announced the purchase of the site and the Rouge plant employs 3800 workers in facilities producing simi- projected plans on August 18. Mr. Turner, a native of Angleton, lar materials. The Ethyl Corporation was formed in 1924 to Texas, and an alumnus of Rice Institute of Houston, will direct manufacture and sell their products which had been introduced operations of the plant from his Baton Rouge, Louisiana, head- to the motoring public in 1923. For years, only Ethyl sold quarters. In announcing the decision to build the plant at Port tetraethyl lead anti-knock gasoline, until 1933 when the com- of Houston, Mr. Turner stated that two paramount factors de- pany began selling their anti-knock compounds to other com- termining the location of the plant were the nearby resources panies. Today, more than 200 companies purchase Ethyl anti- of raw materials and the local concentration of refining indus- tries, chief customers of the Ethyl Corporation. Raw materials knock compounds from this corporation, to whoma hearty wel- required by the plant include metallic lead, commonsalt and come is extended by Port of Houston. WORLDTRADE IS A TWO-WAYSTREET (Continuedfron~ Page25) with more attention to practical effectiveness than to non- the United States and the rest of the world. In only one instance, productive publicity. a recently completed technicolor-sound moving picture of the Port of Houston has already been shown to more than two mil- The Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation lion persons and at the present rate will be seen by more than ten District, under the direction of its progressive and aggressive million before the end of 1950. (This moving picture is being Board of Directors, sustains an outstanding program of port maintenance and development under the able guidance of its shown in the "Houston Room" of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York during the National Foreign Trade Convention, General Manager. This organization, without any state or October 30 and 31 and November 1). federal subsidy, is a locally-financed-and-governed political The Foreign Trade Department of the Houston Chamber entity serving one of the most modern and efficient ports in of Commerceis the largest of that organization’s seventeen the world. highly specialized departments. It coordinates its activities with The Houston Port and Traffic Bureau, together with its Information Division, publicizes the port. Their primary efforts are directed toward those who influence the movementof cargo but an extensive and far-reaching program is telling the exciting story of the Port of Houston to growing audiences all over

A seriousstudy of Houston’sworld-trade statistics occupies Neville Blond(seated left), UK TradeAdviser in the U. S., and WarrenBrown (seated right), Managerof the District Office, U. Fromleft to right, ForneyRankin, Inter-AmericanAffairs Departmentof Commerce,while onlookers(left-to-right) include: Press Officer; Houston’sCollector of CustomsSam D. W. Low; Hon.Edward G. Miller, Jr., AssistantSecretary of State for Inter- R. L. Horlander, Assistant Managerof the Chamber’sForeign AmericanAffairs; Jose Chapa,U. S. Correspondentfor HOYand Trade Department;Dr. T. MacGregor,Trade Adviserof UK; T. C. other Mexicanpublications; and Floyd Martin, Managerof the Sharman,Superintendent of TradeConsul for UKin the South;The Foreign Trade Department,Houston Chamber of Commerce. Hon.J. T. Henderson,Consul General for GreatBritain. HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 32 Policy Association, the Inter-American Club, the Pan-Amer- ican Roundtable. All these organizations with their various interests in the international field have contributed much toward the widespread recognition of Houston’s growth as a focal point of world commerce. In addition, Houston’s banks, railroads, steamship lines, freight forwarders, packers, importers, exporters -- all the elements necessary to a completely serviced foreign trade com- munity-each contribute individually and in groups a strong impetus to the advancement of Houston’s proud position in foreign trade. Houston is thus fortunate in two vital respects: it is a splendid example of the local solution of local problems by local leadership without recourse to state or federal subsidies involving inevitable controls; and it is also a demonstration of the accomplishments possible when all elements of the com- iiiiiiiii!i[i~!ii~i munity join forces without friction to create wealth for the entire community. But Houston is more than a great seaport. It is a great crossroads for all types of transportation: it is a center of rail Gall Whitcomb,Vice Presidentof the HoustonFat StockShow traffic with six trunklines connecting overland with Canada and Chairmanof its international Committeeboth in 1950 and for 1951, welcomesto Houston Mr. AhmedM. Abu-Nasr of and Mexico; highway networks also radiate to serve our truck Egypt---oneof the seventeennations represented in 1950. traffic through all the state as well as our northern and south- ern neighbors; three airlines fly the Foreign Trade Committee from Houston’s International c o m p o s e d of representatives Air Gateway to serve every chosen from the various ele- country in Latin America. ments of the foreign trade And Houston is more even community. The Program of than a great and growing gate- Work for 1950 was extremely way of world commerce. It is a complex a n d comprehensive city of huge and expanding in- but the Mid-Year Progress Re- dustrial concentrations as well. port indicated that the program Along the Houston Ship Chan- is already more than 80~5/i nel alone is located approxi- complete. Routine services in- mately one billion dollars worth cluded the free translation of of massive industry. business correspondence in six Some ports boast that be- languages, certification at no tween 60~, and 80~, of their charge of shipping documents, area’s economic wealth derives processing of thousands of directly from port activities. trade inquiries so that buyer Eric P. McClintock, Trade Commissionerfor Australia, This can be highly beneficial to studiesa Texasmap of the efficient networkof train, planeand and seller are brought together vehicular service to the Port of Houstonas FloydMartin points the ports themselves because in mutually profitable trans- out marketingpossibilities for Australiain the U. S. Southwest. promotional programs rest on a actions, publication of the HOUSTON WORLD TRADE NEWS LETTER, and the sup- plying of technical information to foreign traders all over the world. Annual informational packets of literature on Houston are mailed to public information libraries, governmental and non-governmental, around the world. In addition to these re- petitive routine services, several practical projects are under- taken each year, such as: Houston’s first WORLDTRADE DI- RECTORYnow developing into a more comprehensive work than any submitted by any other port; World Trade Week ob- servance; Pan American Day. The Foreign Trade Department performs those functions and services that some ports publicize extensively as being largely unique to some specialized organi- zation or other. The Houston Foreign Trade Association, the Houston Pro- peller Club, and the Houston Traffic Club number among their memberships almost every active foreign trader in the Port of Houston. Through the programs of these organizations great contributions are made towards the publicizing of the Port of Houston. The Foreign Trade Department of the Chamber of The Hen. Charles Sawyer, U. S. Secretary of Commerce, Commerceserves as Secretariat for the Foreign Trade Associa- greetedon arrival at MunicipalAirport. Left-to-right: WarrenG. tion. In addition, this Foreign Trade Department serves as Secre- Brown,Manager of the District Office of the Departmentof Com- tariat for the recently established but rapidly progressing Inter- merce;Secretary Sawyer; Carlton Haywa~l,field service director, national Committee of the Houston Fat Stock Show, bringing Departmentof Commerce;and Floyd Martin. this major U. S. stock show into an expanding international broad base and receive general and generous support. But it is, program. from the communitypoint of view, a weakness since the entire Other clubs have an allied interest: The Houston Foreign ¯ Continuedon Page36 ,, /

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SCALE IN MILES ~z 0 2 3 4 5 6 I I I i J WORLDTRADE IS A TWO-WAYSTREET (Continuedfrom Page33) community thus becomes dependent upon the activity of the port alone which generates no local wealth except that deriving from the movement of cargo for others. If the economic activity of those areas producing or consuming the cargoes, on which the port is dependent, should suffer impairment, the port will suffer such a loss as will be widely reflected in the entire community since there is no other economic activ- ity to remain high and stable--thus such a port is largely at the mercy of economic factors which it cannot control and can but indirectly and inconclusively influence. Houston, however, with the second largest port in the nation, has such a concentration of widely diversified wealth that the port is only a relatively small percentage of the total economy. This diversification of wealth through many lines means that several of the lines can suffer temporary maladjust- ments while the others will continue to maintain a comparative- ly high level of activity. Further, the products of Houston’s own industries bulk increasingly large in its Port’s cargo move- ments. This is a part of the story of Houston, told with an over- Cooperationof the ConsularCorps contributes importantly to simplified brevity that must of necessity omit many important Houston’sexpanding workl trade. Here The Honorable James ThynneHenderson, British ConsulGeneral for the Southwest, details. But this much of the dramatic Houston story will in- andFloyd Martin look on as MajorLeslie Dufton, British Consul trigue the sound businessman and inspire him to see for him- in Houston,traces trade routeson our ubiquitousglobe. self this capital of the commercial-industrial empire now grow- ing to ~reatness on the center of that incredibly rich crescent of believe that these achievements can be possible, this is your in- the Gulf Coast reaching from Biloxi to Brownsville. These are vitation to visit Houston, Queen City of the South and the the startling statistics; but, since you must see Houstonto really South’s largest city.

COMPLETEFACILITIES SERVE WORLD TRADERS ATTHE PORT OF HOUSTON By Robert L. Horlander Assistant Manager, Foreign Trade Department Houston Chamber of Commerce The world is beating many paths to Houston’s internat- this port’s present status and almost unlimited potentialities. ional doorway to learn how this nation’s youngest major sea- Most visitors are surprised to find that Houston--shown on port has in its brief thirty-five year history risen to rank as many maps to be far inland without a visible channel to the second port (second only to New York) in total tonnage, third ocean---is an enormous modern port completely equipped to in export tonnage and fifth in import tonnage. Nothing attracts conduct its heavy commerce with the world. The concentration attention like success--and the world has been watching Hous- of industry--more than a billion dollars worth--along the Ship ton, with one of the greatest concentrations of industrial wealth Channel amazes many visitors. And few of our visitors are and production in the United States, succeed in becoming the aware, before visiting Houston’s diversity of foreign trade in- Largest City in the South with a rate-of-growth which has been terests, that Houston enjoys every facility for complete foreign not only rapid but steadily maintained over several decades. trade transactions: importers, exporters, brokers, agents, for- Increasingly, visitors to Houston turn to the Foreign Trade warders, packers, transportation agencies (both inland and Department, one of the seventeen specialized departments of ocean), banks with foreign departments, insurance concerns, the Houston Chamber of Commerce, for information concern- etc. ing Houston’s rapid rise to prominence as a world gateway. And Houston’s visitors range from the heads of states and the Foreign Trade Department, in addition to supplying infor- nations to the newest neophyte foreign traders. All receive mation from its own sources, arranges conferences between these courteous attention and complete information from the foreign commercial visitors and appropriate agencies among the many trade interests in Houston and as a result have without excep- interests working harmoniously for the benefit of the Port of tion paid gratifying tribute to the program of cooperation Houston. through which so many foreign trade interests work to benefit After several such conferences, Houston’s visitors have re- the Port of Houston. ceived a well-rounded and technically detailed explanation of ¯ Continuedon Page40

GULFCOASI j’:~ORIDIRAD[ Port of Houston, Texas October 30, 1950

World Traders, Members & Guests BTth National Foreign Trade Convention Hotel Waldorf-Astoria New York, New York Dear Friends: We take this opportunity to introduce our representatives to your 37th National Foreign Trade Convention, and on their behalf, to invite you to visit them in our "Houston" Rooms 4N and P during the convention. Open house will be held there twice daily, at Ii:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. on October 30, 31 and November i, 1950. In addi- tion to a hearty welcome awaiting you there, you’ll be able to view our new 20-minute, sound-color motion picture "Port of Houston". We hope you’ll drop in; there to greet you will be Gen. W. F. Heavey, Navigation District General Manager; Claude Fuqua, president, John C. Mayfield, vice president and Harrison J. Luhn, vice president, all of Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company; J. H. Flavin, manager and James L. Sprunt, of Alex- ander Sprunt & Sons; Sydnor Oden, vice president, Anderson Clayton & Co.; J. R. Aston, Foreign Trade Manager, Lykes Brothers S/S Co.; Andre Crispin, the Doherty Co.; Floyd Martin, Houston Chamber of Com- merce; A. D. Simpson, president, National Bank of Commerce; Tom J. Peeler, Jr., M-K-T Lines; Lee F. Talklngton, Rock Island Lines; R. R. Claghorn, Foreign Trade Manager, Second National Bank; R. C. Pitts, Phillips Terminal Co.; A. E. Osborne, vice president, W. R. Zanes Co.; George K. Reeder, and W. W. Richards, Houston Port & Traffic Bureau; Tom W. Dunn, Manager, Wharf Division, Manchester Term- inal Corp.; J. F. Herold, Baroid Sales Division, National Lead Co.; and Russel M. Riggins, Arthur Young & Company. They’ll be looking for you, and Join all of us here at Port of Houston in the hopes that this will be your finest convention ever.

Cordially,

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 37 OF THE PORT OF HOUSTON

THE PORT AUTHORITY district operates according to its terms which are equal to all A governmental agency of the State of Texas, the Harris alike. This tariff and its rules are generally concurred in by the County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District was created private terminals located within the limits of the district. by the State Legislature, under the provisions of the Texas The Commission also serves as the Navigation, Canal and Constitution and Acts providing for the development of ports Pilot Commission and appoints the Houston Pilots, fixing the in municipalities with a minimumpopulation of 100,000. Auth- rules and regulations under which they operate. ority is granted such navigation districts to acquire, construct, The increasing volume of cargoes handled through Port maintain and operate wharves, warehouses, grain elevators, belt of Houston in the postwar period have focused world-wide at- railroads, bunkering facilities and other installations incident tention upon this relatively young deep sea terminus. In the to or necessary to the operation or development of the port and calendar year 1948, nearly forty million tons of commerce waterways within the district. Upon approval by the qualified moved over the Houston Ship Channel, and reports of the U. voters of the district, as set out in the Act creating it, the dis- S. Engineers rank Houston as the second busiest port in America trict can issue bonds for the purpose of purchasing property, during this latest year of record. In 1949, the Port handled an constructing facilities or otherwise improving and developing estimated 37.5 million tons and indications are that the Port the port. Fullest powers consistent with the Constitution of remained in the coveted second position. During the first seven Texas are granted for the regulation of wharfage and other months of 1950, Port of Houston handled an estimated 23.2 charges and for operating the port facilities. million tons valued at nearly $650,000,000, which points to- The Navigation District is managed, governed and con- ward another record by years’-end. In order to accommodate trolled by a Board of five Navigation and Canal Commissioners. this increased volume of business, the Port Commissionhas un- Two of the Commissioners are selected by the Council of the dertaken a long-range program of modernization and expansion City of Houston; two are selected by the Commissioners’ Court of terminal facilities and deepening and widening of the Hous- of Harris County, and the Chairman is appointed by the City ton Ship Channel. The Navigation District’s new \VTharf Council and County Commissioners’ Court meeting in joint ses- went into service on April 6, 1950; built at a cost approaching sion. The Navigation and Canal Commissioners serve for a S2,000,000, the wharf is the first of three entirely new facilities period of two years, their terms expiring on alternate years. Gen- to be completed, except for the Wharf 4 extension completed erally known as the Port Commission or the Board, the), have in 1948. As this issue goes to press, pile-drivers are completing jurisdiction and control over the use of the Houston Ship Chan- the sheet-pile foundation cells of new Navigation District Wharf nel from its beginning in Galveston Bay to the Turning Basin No. 16, pictured on page 37. An open-type wharf designed to at Houston, fifty miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and handle lumber, pipe and other commodities not requiring shed :’,1l streams tributary to the channel in Harris County. Before storage, Wharf 16 will have a shipside frontage of 600 feet, ex- any construction can be undertaken on the channel, a permit tending back a width of 200 feet with paved storage areas must be procured from the Navigation District as well as the totaling 123,07(} square feet. Featuring marginal railroad tracks U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, who are charged with the im- and roadways designed to facilitate truck service, the wharf is provement and maintenance of the channel. The Navigation being built by Farnsworth & Chambers Co., at a cost of $811,- and Canal Commissioners are empowered to exercise the right 800. By early Spring, Wharf 16 will be completed, followed of eminent domain in connection with the :,cquisition of prop shortly by the Navigation District’s new Manchester No. 3, erty for developing and operating the port. the latter a S 00-foot open-type creosoted-pile and timber struc- The General Manager of the Navigation District is ap- ture. Teilepsen Construction Co. was awarded the $205,447.0(J poi,ited by the Board to supervise all of the work and activities contract to construct Manchester No. 3. of the District, and to generally direct the affairs of the Board In May, Houston’s first vehicular tunnel under the Ship as it may prescribe. He also serves as Director of the Port and Channel was dedicated and opened. Named in honor of long- Secretary of the Port Terminal Raih’oad Association. time County Auditor Harry L. Washburn, the new tube is the first of two such structures designed to speed the flow of POLICY AND PROGRAM traffic about the busy, sprawling Houston industrial area. Tubu- The Navigation and Canal Commission has adopted a lar sections of the Baytown-La Porte Tunnel are being fabri- broad policy of cooperation with the privately owned terminals cated at this date by Brown and Root, contractors on the for the promotion of commerce through the port as a whole, and project. with other civic interests in encouraging industries to locate on The Navigation District contributed a total of $1,250,000 or near the channel. The Commission publishes a tariff; the toward the total cost of nearly S20,000,000 for the two tunnels.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 When completed, these long-needed traffic arteries will also serve to speed the movementof ships along the channel, at the BUSINESS:STILL BETTER! same time eliminating the hazards presented by the use of ferries. Depth of the tunnels beneath the channel bed will allow the further deepening of the channel as the need presents itself. CUSTOMCOLLECTIONS In this connection, the Port Commission has currently asked the Congress for additional legislation which would authorize UP 16% OVER 1949 the deepening of the channel to a minimumdepth of 40 feet, c from Bolivar Roads to the upper limits of the Sinclair Refinery. Customs collections totaled $ 3,918,722 at Port o Houston The second phase of a five-to-ten-year program of widening and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950--a sixteen per cent in- deepening the channel to a minimumdepth of 36 feet is now crease over the 1949 total. Customs Collector Sam D. W. Low, in progress, and the Commission favors amending this authori- in a report to Gen. W. F. Heavey, Navigation District General zation in order that Port of Houston, major oil port of the Manager, stated that 1645 vessels entered the Port of Houston world, may accommodate the huge new super-tankers now un- in foreign trade during the period, a new record for the port. der construction and in operation. Currently, Fiscal Year 1951 totals for July and August The Navigation District cooperates with the federal gov- exceed $1,149,000, a monthly average of $574,593, well over ernment in the maintenance and improvement of the Houston the $ 324,560-per-month-average for the record 19 J 0 fiscal per- Ship Channel. In this program, the District provides, without iod. Collector Low’s goal for F. Y. 1951 is a frank and opti- charge to the government, all necessary and required spoil dis- posal grounds, and pipeline and channel right-of-way easements. Much of the more than 3000 acres of land owned by the dis- z" 6 .65 ’ " I0 ? trict is utilized for this work. Operating earnings of the district 0

are continually plowed back into the improvement of the --I channel and the publicly-owned port facilities. In addition to --I wharves and docks described elsewhere in this publication, the district owns a 3 ½-million-bushel grain elevator, through which flowed nearly 60 million bushels of grain during 1949. The dis- DISTRICT COLLECTIONS trict also owns an excellent system of inter-connecting railroad mistic $ l0 million for the entire district, which includes the tracks, rights-of-way, and engine and tool houses, which are cities of Dallas, Corpus Christi, Galveston and Freeport, in ad- operated jointly by the six trunk-line railroads serving Houston. dition to Houston. District collections for the past year totaled This switching agency, the Port Terminal Railroad Association, $6,652,000, and all collection ports are making substantial gains provides adequate switching services at low cost to all railroads, currently. Collector Low attributes the increases in foreign for port and industrial facilities on the channel. The Houston trade to improved current American foreign trade policies, Ship Channel and the hundreds of plants and terminals lining coupled with Europe’s return to "normalcy" as a result of the its banks represent expenditures estimated to exceed one billion Marshall Plan. The records thus far as this edition goes to press dollars. Busy Port of Houston looks ahead, to increased activity indicate that Mr. Low’s "banner year" predictions for his dis- and commerce through America’s Number Two Port. trict may well be realized.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: NAVIGATION DISTRICT WHARF 16 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 39 COMPLETEHOUSTON FACILITIES SERVE WORLD TRADERS (Coniinlced fromPage 36) tries arc hosts to increasing numbers of commercial travelers and visitors. This year, His Excellency Gabriel Gonzales Videla, Presi- Mr. Hubert Sternberg, manufacturer of a widely dis- dent of Chile, (see cover) made a visit of state to Houston’s tributed line of printing presses and president of the Heidelberg industries and port facilities. Shortly thereafter, His Excellency (Germany) Chamber of Commerce, came to Houston to estab- Liaquat All Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, together with lish an agency. Ricardo Sagrero, Jr., President of the E1 Sal- the Begumand official party on a visit of state visited Hous- vador Chamber of Commerce, was only one of many visitors ton’s Ship Channel, industry and agriculture-livestock develop- from foreign Chambers of Commerce, including Niels G. Hol- ments. From our own Government, Secretary of Commerce wech of the Oslo (Norway) Junior Chamber of Commerce. Charles Sawyer came to Houston to conduct a series of explora- Almost every trade mission sent to the United States comes tory conferences. Recently, The Honorable Edward G. Miller, to Houston to find the secret of selling the rich Southwestern Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and Mid-Continent markets for which Houston is the natural concluded a tour of Latin America with a public address and port of entry. Such missions have come from Mexico, Belgium, port visit to Houston as guest of the Houston Foreign Trade Sweden, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, France, Germany, and many Association, of which the Chamber’s Foreign Trade Department other countries. Others have announced plans to visit Houston is Secretariat. in the near future. Through the work of its International Committee, which Typical of the series of visitors brought to Houston under the Foreign Trade Department also serves as Secretariat, the the auspices of the Department of State with ECAid are U Ba Houston Fat Stock Showfor 1950 attracted visitors from seven- Kin, editor of Rangoon’s HANTHAWADDYPRESS in Burma, teen nations, who came here to study Houston’s rapidly de- and Dr. Sarwono Prawihardjo of Indonesia. veloping livestock industry which ships breeding stock all over Newforeign trade partners, Floyd Sooy and Allie Reynolds the world. A more ambitious Fat Stock Show program is al- of Oklahoma (in the heart of Houston’s trade territory) are ready underway for 1951. representative of the newcomers in the field of foreign trade A regular visitor to the Foreign Trade Department is who are attracted by Houston’s dramatically developing world Charles Garmann, Commercial Counselor of the Norwegian trade pattern and who seek information and advice on moving Consulate General in the South. Eric P. McClintock, Trade their cargoes through Houston. Commissioner for Australia, has studied trade development pos- These few of Houston’s visitors illustrate the many we sibilities for his country and its use of the Port of Houston. meet as the world beats its paths to and through Houston’s bet- Houston’s twenty-six consular representatives of foreign coun- ter world gateway. FOREIGN TRADE TONNAGEHANDLED AT 15 PRINCIPALU.S. PORTS:1948-1949" PORT PERCENTCHANGE HOUSTON 46°1o Port Arthur 41% Boston 22 % Los Angeles ~///////’///’////~ 1"/% Philadelphia 16% Baltimore NO CHANGE Galveston -- 2% Chicago -- 10% Toledo -- 11% N e w Yor k -- 16% [~///.//,////////~/, San Francisco --16%[f//f////////~ New Orleans --20% ~/////~ Norfolk -- 21% V//~~/’~ Newport News --28%~//////’Y///////’///’.////~, Mo b i l e -- 31% Other Ports ~J 2%

’:’Source: Bureau of the Census tabulations FT 972, 976 and 981

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The past decade has beyond question been the busiest one, mann of Isthmian Lines and Ed R. Brown of Lykes Brothers generally, in the short thirty-five year span of Port Houston’s all followed consecutively as Club presidents. lifetime as an ocean port. Playing no small part in this port’s success story has been the port of Houston chapter, Propeller The Club meets nine times annually, during fall, winter Club of the United States. and spring, followed by an annual dinner-dance in early sum- mer. Amongthe many civic and maritime activities of the Club, Organized in 1940, the Houston Propeller Club begins its the celebration of National Maritime Day and the observance eleventh year with a membership totaling 260. Heading the club of World Trade Week rank high on the order of business. Like for the ensuing 1950-51 year of activities are the capable its counterparts throughout America the local Club fosters and officials pictured below, guided in turn by a Board of Gover- supports national legislation on behalf of the American Mer- nors which includes Jack R. Bencal, Bencal & Lambdin; Carl chant Marine and the maritime industry. G. Stearns, Attorney; Gen. W. F. Heavey, Port Director; E. R. Brown, Lykes Brothers; John J. Dee, Anderson Clayton & This year as always, the Houston Propeller Club was well Co.; Captain S. T. Hand, Lykes Brothers; and S. K. "Pop" represented at the Annual Convention, 24th in the National Shane, Peden Iron & Steel Company. Propeller Club’s history. Held in Baltimore on September 27, 28 and 29, this was the 17th Annual Convention conducted in Ben F. Thompson, Southern Industrial & Marine Supply conjunction with the American Merchant Marine Conference. Company,was elected first president of the Club, and received Theme of the Conference was "The American Merchant Marine the official charter from Honorary National Propeller Club president Arthur Tode at the organizational meeting held at Rice --Mid-Century Analysis." Attending from Houston were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Hotel. Old-timers recall that, among the 62 charter members, Ben F. Thompson, J. Newton Rayzor, of Butcher-Arthur, Inc., Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Fenzl, Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Shane and Leonard LaGrange. In addition to and Ben Bloomfield of Waterman Steamship Company were the wheelhorses who organized the club. participation in the routine business and panel sessions, Hous- ton’s delegation returned enthusiastic in their praise of the en- R. J. Wales of Bay-Houston Towing Company, Julian S. tertainment schedule, which included a visit to Annapolis for Burrows of Humble Oil & Refining Company, Harrison J. the ladies, golf tournament, harbour tours, luncheons, banquets Luhn of Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company, J. E. Gough of and dinner-dances. Houston looks ahead to playing host to the Port Houston Iron Works, Jack R. Bencal, Clarence H. Horst- National Convention in the not-too-distant future.

Propeller Club officers, from left to right, are Harry W. Anderson,vice president, JosephE. Davies, president,and G. Harris Emig,secretary-treasurer. In absentia,Tom Dunn, second vice president,out of townwhen this photowas taken.

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channel lies within Harris County, ninth largest county in the From Bolivar Roads, where Galveston Bay clasps hands State of Texas. with the broad, brown Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Chan- The city of Houston was founded in 1836, shortly after nel extends a distance of fifty miles to the Houston Turning General Sam Houston’s forces defeated Santa Anna at San Basin, head of deepwater navigation at America’s second-busiest Jacinto and Texas became a republic. The founding fathers, deepsea port. Following a north-northwestward course across Galveston Bay, the 36-foot deep channel enters the mainland A. C. and J. K. Allen, named the city after General Houston, and history records that apparently since its earliest inception, at Morgan Point, 24½ miles above Bolivar Roads; thence fol- the people of Houston have dedicated their efforts toward lowing the course of the San Jacinto River for a distance of nine creating an inland, deepsea port. August 17, 1915, marked the miles to the river’s junction with historic Buffalo Bayou, it culmination of their early efforts, for on that date the S. S. progresses in a generally westward direction for 16 miles along "Satilla" of the Southern Steamship Lines began regular ocean the bayou to the Turning Basin, less than four miles as the crow shipping service between Port of Houston and the Atlantic flies from the center of downtown Houston. All of the Port of Houston including the upper 25-mile section of the busy Coast. In the nearly thirty-five years since that epic occasion,

ELEVENLYKES LINERS IN U.S. NAVALRESERVE Eleven cargo liners of the fleet of Lykes Bros. Steamship Lykes, S. S. William Lykes, S. S. Dick Lykes, S. S. Tillie Lykes, Co., Inc. now fly the U. S. Naval Reserve Pennant from atop S. S. Charles Lykes and S. S. Helen Lykes. Of these eleven ships four are now operated in the Far East their main truck indicating that they have been approved by service; two in the Mediterranean; three to Continental Europe; the Navy as Naval auxiliaries in time of a national emergency. These vessels, like other ships of the Lykes fleet, were con- one to the British Isles, and one in the Caribbean. Because its six different trade routes cover most of the structed so as to include Naval specifications which make the globe, the Lykes fleet is particularly important to the Navy in vessels readily adaptable to Navy use. The Naval Reserve Pen- time of national emergency since these vessels can be placed nant is awarded to American flag merchant ships which meet into immediate service as Naval auxiliaries. Vessels of this vast Naval specifications and whose officer personnel is composed American flag fleet may be found daily in various parts of the of a majority of Naval Reserve officers. Other vessels of the world operating in normal peace-time cargo operations. The Lykes fleet are scheduled to receive the Naval Reserve Pen- ships are modern, fast, C-type steamers and some of them are nant in the near future. remembered for their important performances during the past The Lykes vessels now flying the Naval Reserve Pennant war, frequently being sent rushing to allied outposts without are the S. S. Letitia Lykes, S. S. Margaret Lykes, S. S. Frank convoy to deliver badly needed war materials. Lykes, S. S. Nancy Lykes, S. S. Frederick Lykes, S. S. Norman

S. S. FREDERICK LYKES HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER,1950 42 PORT OF HOUSTON: THE SEA WINDS FIFTY MILES INLAND

the young port has progressed to the point where, in 1948, she at Pasadena and at Baytown-La Porte will eliminate the only was second only to the mammothPort of New York in volume semi-serious hazards to navigation. Altogether, approximately of tonnage shipped over her channel. The year 1949 saw in- $32,325,000 has been spent on the widening, deepening and creased volumes of dry cargo and foreign trade shipments, and maintenance of the Houston Ship Channel, and the present only a slight decrease in total tonnage handled. dredging program calls for an additional expenditure of ap- For half a century, the channel has undergone con- proximately $7,000,000 by time of completion in 1952 or 1953. stant widening and deepening. Current authorizations by the Local interests are requesting the present Congress for an amend- Congress call for a minimumdepth of 36 feet throughout the ed authorization to increase the depth to 40 feet rather than to entire course of the channel and under the Turning Basin, which 36 feet along the lower 46 miles of channel, below the Sinclair is 1100 feet in diameter and adequate for turning the large mod- Refinery. This project, if carried forward at the present time, ern tankers and freighters that ply the waterway. When this would be much more economically accomplished than if delayed present project is completed, the channel will have a minimum until a later date, and there is no question in the minds of Hous- bottom width o~ 400 feet from Bolivar Roads to a point 5000 tonians that the heavy volume of tonnage moving over the feet above Baytown, thence 350 feet to the mouth of Boggy channel, a major portion of which is carried and will be carried Bayou, thence 300 feet to the Turning Basin. In addition, turn- by new, deep-draft super-tankers, justifies such an increase in ing points will be dredged at the mouth of Hunting Bayou and depth. at the lower end of Brady Island, and a light-draft channel will It has been reliably estimated that approximately $ 50,000,- be deepened to 10 feet and widened to 60 feet behind Brady 000 have been spent by the Navigation District and the four Island. Above the Turning Basin, a 10-foot light draft channel, private terminals-for-hire alone, in erecting the splendid following the course of Buffalo Bayou, extends to Main Street, wharves, docks, warehouses and cargo handling facilities at Port virtually in the center of Houston. Several other streams, tribu- Houston. There are 79 ships’ berths and berthing space for 17 tary to the channel, are navigable for small craft and shallow- to 25 barges at the port. A complete listing and description of draft vessels. This network of waterways offers great attractions these facilities appears on pages 46-47 of this publication. Gen- to industries interested in waterborne commerce, and has con- erally, there is approximately 2,500,000 square feet of transit tributed greatly to the amazing industrial development of the warehouse space and considerable open space at shipside and in Houston area. Although the land is flat, it is well-drained, and storage yards adjacent to the waterfront. Wharf aprons general- engineering and drainage projects now underway will eventually ly are wide, conducive to the expeditious handling of cargo, eliminate the now-remote menace of floods due to occasional with splendid apron railroad trackage for handling freight from wind and rain-storms. The average rise and fall of the tide on car to ship and vice-versa. At Port of Houston the most modern the Houston Ship Channel rarely exceeds 14 inches; very rare and efficient freight handling equipment is available, including floods and prevailing winds affect the water level and the south- locomotive cranes up to 50-ton capacities, 75-ton stationary west winds during most of the year contribute approximately crane, magnets and clam-shell buckets, lift trucks and pallets, two feet of greater depth to the waterway. There are no bridges escalators and conveyors, tractors and trailers, hand trucks, across the Ship Channel, and completion of the two tunnels electric power shovel, electric bulk trimmers, etc. ¯ CoJltD;,lled~.~H Page 59 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 43 Amon~ port

Nearly 600,000 native and "naturalized" Texans make Houston their home. On the wide busy thoroughfares, in the spacious verdant parks and in every other part of the city one rubs shoulders with Minnesotans and Louisianians and Californ- ians. A guy from New York sits by a gent from Chicago on the South Main bus every afternoon en route homewat~’d and two ProminentGerman officials visited Houstonin the spring. From girls from Cincinnati drink coffee together at ten sharp, five mornings each week. Houston is a city of open doors and the left to right, above:Senator Karl Schiller of Hamburg;A. W. Lott, of LykesBros. S. S. Co.; BaronessHenreich yon Biel; Erns~Plate, ready handshake, one of the vanishing frontiers of the U.S.A. general mana3er,Por~ of Hamburg;Baron von Biel, men,bet of A spidery network of state and federal highways fans out Germany’sERP mission, and Port Director W. F. Heavey.Below from the city in every direction; the air is full of the roar of fromleft to right: Dr. Karl Carstens,representative of the state of airliners overhead and six great trunkline railroads link Houston Bremen;Bremen Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen; Joe Davies, president with all the cities of America. Flags of all nations fly from the HoustonMaritime Association; and Albert Bore, president of the masts of great ships along the waterfront. Along these trans- BremenCotton Exchange. portation arteries move people: to, through and from Houston. Of the thousands who come, many come to stay. Over a span of 114 years, Houston’s amazing history records that fact. The Chamber of Commerceregisters 160 large conventions each year, currently, with a total attendance estimated at more than 60,000. The Boards of Directors of a great baking com- pany, a major railroad, and numerous other companies convene here and just plain Joneses and Smiths in trailers and sports- shirts gaze upward at the great hotel on the edge of town as they follow the Old Spanish Trail vacationward. Those who linger long enough find the nightspots and the museum and theatres, and listen to the Symphonyin concert under the oaks at Hermann Park on warm Sunday evenings. Thousands find their way out Seventy-Fifth Street to the Turning Basin, where the sea winds 50 miles inland to the

Inspecting the HoustonShip Channelon March29 wasthis party of Europeancan manufacturers,the guestsin Houstonof Mr. andMrs. JesseH. Jones.Left to right are KnuteLaurin, president, AktiebolagetPlatmanufaktur, of Stockholm,Sweden; Jacques Le- Febvre,of Paris, assistant generalmanager of ETS,J. J. Carnaudan.d Forgesde Basse-lndre;Jean Petin, of Paris, boardchairman of the samefirm; Mrs. Laurin; Mrs. LeFebvre;C. C. Conwayof NewYork, chairmanof the boardof ContinentalCan Co.; Mrs. William Cameronof Chicago,wife of the central .division managerof Continental CanCo.; A. Dee Simpson,vice-chairman of the board, National Bankof Commerce;Mrs. C. C. Conway;Mrs. Earle M::Faddenof Sugar Land, and W. M. Cameron.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 threshold of the city. This year thus far, more than 3800 of these visitors from all over the globe have voyaged down the Houston Ship channel aboard the Inspection Boat SAMHOUS- TON. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Kahn, and His Excellency, President Gabriel Gonzales Videla followed the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor early in the Spring. Like all who saw the busy ship channel for the first time, these distinguished guests were first amazed, then effusive. In addition to those pictured on these pages, the following RockIsland officials, headedby the president,J. D. Farring- groups were guests of the Port Commission aboard the SAM ton of Chicago,toured Houston’sShip Channelwhen they came HOUSTONthis summer, among others: Assistant Secretary herefor a boardof directors’meeting. Left to right: RayW. Sager, of State Edward G. Miller, Jr., and party; officials of IBM generalagent in Houston;Charles Naser of Chicago,secretary to Corporation; Soil Conservation Association members; American the president; A. O. Gibsonof Chicago,secretary and treasurer; Society of Medical Technologists; National Association of Edu- Frank O’Kaneof Fort Worth, assistant freight traffic manager; cational Buyers; the executive staff of Goodyear Rubber Com- L. B. Pritchett of Chicago,assistant to the president;Bert Walker pany, Akron, Ohio; Westinghouse Electric Corporation offi- of Fort Worth,general attorney; J. W. Hill of Chicago,vice presi- cials; visiting University of Kansas students; Mathieson Chemi- dent, freight traffic; W. F. Peter of Chicago,vice presidentand cal Companyofficials; Texas State Senators and Representatives generalcounsel; Dudley H. Swimof PebbleBeach, Cal.; L. B. Neu- in attendance at the annual State Water Control Conference; miller of Peoria,II1., presidentof the CaterpillarTractor Co.; Her- General Traffic Manager J. W. Hoover and other executives of ber~ L. Hortonof DesMoines, president Iowa-DesMoines National U. S. Steel Corporation; National Pathological Association mem- Bankand Trust Co., directors; all of RockIslanzl Lines; W. F. bers; dozens of other groups, bringing to 294 the total number Heavey,Director of the Port of Houston;Howard Brooks of Fort of trips made by the SAMHOUSTON in the first 20 months Worth, executivegeneral agent, RockIsland Lines; D. C. Haggart of its service. This former Coast Guard Cutter has thus logged of Houston,vice president, Burlington-RockIsland Railroad; Ed- more than 9500 miles up and down channel in this period, wardE. Brownof Chicago,chairman of the boardof the First Na- carrying 8800 port visitors an average distance of thirty miles tional Bankof Chicago;Robert McKinney of SantaFe, rancherand along America’s second busiest deep sea port. investor;Frederick M. Mayerof Dallas, presidentof the Continental SupplyCo., directors; Mr. Farrington,and Col. WilsonG. Saville, The Welcome Lamp is lit at Port of Houston. former chairmanof the HoustonPort Commission.

This groupof HoustonPropeller Club members,their wivesand guests were hosts to Frazer A. Bailey, Presidentof the National Federationof AmericanShipping, during his visit on May24. Fromleft to right: J. D. Morhan,Rene Sanguily, Mrs. Sanguily,R. A. Fenzl, Mrs. Harris Emig, Jake Aston, Mrs. T. J. Donaghue,Capt. S. T. Hand,Mrs. Hand,Capt. BobWales, Mrs. W. R. Kupersmith, A. K. Shane,C. P. Egnon,Mr. Bailey, ClarenceHorstmann, Mrs. Milo Abercrombie,Capt. Ed R. Brown,Tom Dunn, A. M. Alvarez, J. B. Eads, Harris Emig, Mrs. Ed Eikel, Mr. Eikel, Mrs. M. Adair, Mrs. ClarenceHorstmann, Dow Wynn.

HOUSTONPORTBOOK FOROCTOBER, 1950 45 PORT OF HOUSTON PUBLICWHARVES

Covered Open Railroad Wharf Length Feet Berthing Area Area Car Material Capacity Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Storage (4) Wharf Shed

Concrete No. 1 . 826.45 2 Vessels 59,298 56,776 32 Wood Wood No. 2 521.33 1 Vessel 52,089 25,398 44 Concrete 52 Concrete Steel No. 3 801.80 2 Vessels 36,523 52,295 Concrete Concrete and Steel No. 4 779.42 2 Vessels 66,840 32,324 39 Concrete Steel No. 9 500.00 1 Vessel 75,500 45,317 60 Concrete Steel No. 10 600.00 1 Vessel 72,709 39,300 59 Concrete No. 11 - 530.00 1 Vessel 66,638 28,260 60 Concrete Concrete and Steel No. 12, two story 530.00 1 Vessel 97,276 26,640 50 Concrete Concrete and Steel No. 13, two story (1) 460.00 1 Vessel 80,927 25,530 43 Concrete 23 Concrete None No. 14, (2) 480.00 1 Vessel 51,191 Concrete Concrete No. 15, (2) 480.00 1 Vessel 66,638 14,800 45 None Concrete Warehouse Distribution 198,736 56 Concrete Steel Manchester No. 75 (2) 500.75 I Vessel 87,520 15,300 30 None Manchester Coal Dock (3) 253.50 1 Vessel 21,800 20 Wood None Wood Cotton Shed 269,813 62

675 Totals 7~263.25 16 Vessels 1,230,507 434,931

(1) Equipped with 45,264 cu. ft. refrigerated space. (2) Grain berth. (3) Single belt conveyor. (4) Available for loading and unloading.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 46 PRIVATE WHARVES AND TERMI NALS FOR HIRE

Berthing Owner Length Capacity Type of Wharf and Use

PRIVATE WHA RVES American Republics Corp. (Oil Wharf) ..... 40 Ft. 4 Barges (.Barges only); creosoted piling; Oil wharf. American Republics Corp. (Barge Wharf) .. 150 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Armour Fertilizer Works ...... 150 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted timber fitted with hopper and conveyor for fertilizer. Arrow Mills, Inc. (Formerly Houston Milling Co., Inc.) (Using Manchester Wharf) Grain loading and unloading berth for Elevator. Brown Engineering Corporation ...... 2,000 Ft. 6 Vessels Shipbuilding and repairing. Champion Paper & Fibre Co ...... 600 Ft. 3 Light Creosoted piling, wood and steel decking, length Draft 200 feet; Barges, Paper, Pulp, Salt, Caustic and Vsls. Oyster Shell. Coastal Oil & Transport Co. (Leased to Hum- ble Oil & Refining Company) ...... 150 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Crown-Central Petroleum Corp ...... 150 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc ...... 40 Ft. 2 Barges Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. 500 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling and clusters; Oil wharf. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc .... 6 Ft. Fire dock; wood piling. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc ..... 16 Ft. Barge dock; wood piling. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. .~ 300 Ft. 1 Barge Barge dock; wood piling. General American Tank Storage Terminals 600 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Gulf Oil Corporation ...... 590 Ft. 1 Vessel Steel bulkhead, pile clusters; Oil wharf. Gulf Refining Co. (Houston Pipe Line Div.) 200 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Houston Lighting & Power Co .... 24 Ft. 1 Barge Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Humble Oil & Refining Co ...... 2,200 Ft. 6 Vessels Concrete piling; Oil wharf. Ideal Cement Company, Gulf Portland Div. 200 Ft. 2 Barges Timber Bulkhead Wharf; Unloading Clay, Shell. Lone Star Cement Corporation .... 387 Ft. 2 Barges Creosoted piling and clusters; Barge wharf. Magnolia Petroleum Company ...... 73’ 6" 1 Vessel Creosoted piling and clusters; Gasoline wharf. San Jacinto Ordnance Depot ._. 1,500 Ft. (Slip) 3 Vessels Concrete; Cargo shed. Sheffield Steel Corporation . 480 Ft. 1 Vessel Steel sheet piling backfilled; Handling of incom- ing material and shipment of steel products. Shell Oil Company, Inc ...... 2,600 Ft. (Slip) 4 Vessels Creosoted piling; Oil wharf. Sinclair Refining Company . . 1,400 Ft. 3 Vessels Concrete and creosoted piling; Oil pipe line and case goods. Southern Pacific Lines (Clinton Dock) 1,250 Ft. (Slip) 3 Vessels Concrete; General cargo. Southern Acid & Sulphur Co. (2 Docks) 143 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted timbers and piling with concrete deck; 153 Ft. 1 Vessel Bulk cargo dock. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. 400 Ft. 1 Vessel Creosoted piling; Handling steel products. The Texas Company...... 1,400 Ft. 3 Vessels Steel bulkhead; Oil wharf. TERMINALS FOR HIRE Houston Wharf Co. (Long Reach Docks) . 3,428 Ft. 8 Vessels Concrete; Apron tracks; Cotton and general cargo. Manchester Terminal Corporation ...... 1,600 Ft. 4 Vessels Concrete; Apron track; Cotton and general cargo. Alexander Sprunt & Son, Inc ...... 800 Ft. 2 Vessels Concrete; Cotton and miscellaneous cargo. Houston Barge Terminal (General Steve- dores, Inc.) ...... 900 Ft. 5 Barges (Barges only) General cargo. Phillips Terminal Co ..... 2,600 Ft. 5 Vessels Steel Bulkhead.

Totals .. 27,031 Ft. 63 Vessels and 17 Barges

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 47 TERMINALSFOR HIRE O PUBLIC WHARVES (~ GULF ATLANTIC --TURNING BASIN WAREHOUSECO. PUBLIC WHARV S/ SHIP CHANNEL t COMPRESSCO. INC. 0 0 I~O t 1~ MANCHESTER 0 TERMINAL CORP.

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48 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 NEWA. O. SMITHPIPE MILL IN PRODUCTION Another"Texas BragS" Item:Founded tn Fact/ The worldSs second-largest welded steel pipe mill went into is anticipated that future plant expansion will enable the mill production in August, heralding the arrival of a great new in- to produce pipe in sizes from eight and five-eighths to 36 inches. dustry among Port of Houston’s amazing family of manufac- Also scheduled are casing facilities to be operated in connection turing and shipping concerns. with the modern, ever-growing pipe mill. A. O. Smith Corporation of Texas, a subsidiary of A. O. D. F. McCarthy is vice president and general manager of Smith of Milwaukee and Sheffield Steel Corporation, is a A. O. Smith Corporation of Texas, and E. L. Evenson, former $5,000,000 addition to the billion-dollar-plus colony of oil, superintendent of A. O. Smith of Milwaukee’s pipe mill (the chemical, steel, shipbuilding, and other industries lining the world’s largest) has been appointed resident manager of the banks of the Houston Ship Channel from the Turning Basin to Houston plant. J. M. Floyd, vice president, had a large hand in Morgan’s Point. supervising construction of the new mill. Affording jobs for 400 workers, the new pipe mill will produce 40,000 tons of large diameter welded steel pipe per The big plant well qualifies as another "Texas Brags" item; month: "big inch" pipe, in quantities well in excess of the like the majority of such items, this particular one is founded fifty-miles-per-month previously estimated. in fact, without need of exaggerated embellishment. The main Located on the north side of the channel, the plant is in building, for example, measures 200 x 675 feet, twice as large near proximity to Sheffield Steel, one of the two parent com- as the new football gridiron at Rice Stadium. The adjoining panies. Sheffield’s own production has been expanded to meet ~pickling" building measures 200 x 80 feet and the one-story the needs of the new pipe mill; Sheffield has installed a new steel and masonry office building has 8000 air-conditioned plate mill nearby, this addition also creating additional jobs for square feet of space. The new plate mill covers nearly five several hundred workers. acres, housing a mill machine capable of rolling 40-foot plates, In order to meet an urgent need for large line pipe, the 115 inches wide, and pipe up to three feet in diameter. A boon Austin Company rushed the new pipe mill to completion in to the railroad as well as the oil and gas industry, the plant in record time, following ground-breaking ceremonies in October, full production can load out 100 rail cars per day. 1949. Austin Company, working with A. O. Smith engineers, Twodozen officials o~ the mill were transferred to Hous- designed and built the plant and installed its machinery. ton from Milwaukee; the remainder of the 400 workers are The new mill will be operated in three shifts daily, with from the Houston area. 25 full production days per month. As production began, the Directors of the firm are A. von Wening, chairman; Rae first order of 1000 miles of 30-inch pipe for Texas-Illinois Pipe F. Bell and L. B. Smith, Milwaukee; J. C. Shepard, F. R. Mc- Line Company’s new natural gas line created a backlog of or- Farland and L. H. Juengling, all of Sheffield Steel Corporation. ders which will keep the plant busy for the first eleven months Officers include L. B. Smith, president; D. F. McCarthy, vice of operation, followed by other orders which will keep the mill president and general manager; John M. Floyd, vice president; at peak production through 1951. At the present time, produc- M. J. Vollmer, secretary-treasurer; and Robert Heinzen, assist- tion is limited to pipe in sizes ranging from 16 to 36 inches. It ant secretary-treasurer.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 49 OPERATING THROUGH PORT OF HOUSTON

STEAMSHIPSERVICES BETWEEN HOUSTON AND FOREIGNPORTS Corrected as of October I, 1950

Lines Between Houston and: Houston Agent or Operator Agwilines, Inc. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Alaska Packers Association Various Ports Bloon~ield Steamship Co. Alaska Transportation Company Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen, Hamburg, Alpina Lines and Caribbean Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Ade- American Pioneer Line laide-Australia Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents Argentine State Line South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Armement Deppe, S.A. Havre and Dunkirk, France; Antwerp and Ghent, Belgium Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Atwacoal Transportation Co. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Far East, Australian Ports: Brisbane, Bank Line Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. New Strachan Shipping Company Zealand Ports: Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin Boland & Cornelius Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd. Canadian Ports Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd. Centramerican S/S Agency, Inc. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc. R. Chapman & Son Various Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Buenaventura, Guayaquil, Callao, Valpar- Chilean Line also, Arica, Antofagasta, San Antonio Straehan Shipping Co. and Talcahuana Cia De Muelles de la Poblacion Vergara South American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc. Cootip Line Mexican Ports Gonzalo Abaunza, Jr. Common Bros. Various Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Companhia Nacional de Navegacao Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. F. L. Dawson& Co., Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Tel~ninal Company, Inc. Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc. South American and European Ports Strachan Shipping Co. Frank S. Dawson, Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc. Delta Line (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Brazilian and West African Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents Dodd Thomsen & Co., Ltd. Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Dodero Line Argentine and Brazilian Ports Strachan Shipping Co. Fall River Navigation Co. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann. Inc. Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Hongkong, Macassar, Soerabaya, Cemerang, Cheribon, Dja- Fern Line karta, Singapore, Port Swettenham and Biehl & Company Penang. Flanigan, Loveland, Inc. South American and European Ports J. S. Bu~ows French Line French North Atlantic Ports E. S. Binnings A. Garcia y Cia., Ltda. Havana Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Garcia & Diaz Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. General Steamship Corporation Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc. Grancolombiana, S. A. (Flota Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Mercante) South American Ports Gulf Shipping Lines Various Ports Gulf Shipping Lines Buenaventura, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecua- Gulf & South American Steam- dor; Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents ship Co., Inc. other West Coast South American ports

50 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 FOREIGNSERVICES - continued _ Lines Between Houston and: Houston Agent or Operator Gulf-Stream S/S Co., Inc. - Gulf and Caribbean Ports Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. HANDT Lines Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Harrison Line Liverpo01-~dManc hester Wm. Parr & Com_p_any - Hoegh-Silver Line Various Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Hogarth & Sons Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co.. Inc. Holland America Line Holland. Belgium, English Ports and German Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Hopemount Shipping Co., Ltd. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. India Steamship Co.. Ltd. India Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Isbrandtsen Company Inc. Venezuelan Ports all_d .Continenta) Europe Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. Isthmian Steamship Company India Ports Persian Gulf Ports Middle East Ports Isthmian Steamship Company Jas. Griffiths & Sons, Inc. Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co~ Alexandri~ PortSaid. Suez. Balawan-Deh, -- Java New York Line Penang. Port Swettenham. Singapore, Batavia. Cheribon. Samarang, Soeraba- Strachan Shipping Company .... ya and Balik Papan Java Pacific Line Capetown, Port Elizabeth. New London. Durban, Lorenco Marques and Beira Strachan Shipping Company Silver Line Far Eastern Ports, Netherlands East In- dies. Malaya, India, Persian Gulf Thomas Rice & Co.. Inc. Silver Line South and East African Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Lancasl~ine Shipping Co. " Various Ports -- Fo~v]er & McVitie, Inc. Larrinaga-Line VariousPorts Fowler & McVitie, Inc. Lloyd ~iliero -Brazilian-Ports Strachan-Shipping Company Lykes African Line South and East African Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.. Inc. Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Havre, Ant- Lykes Continent Line werp, Ghent. Also Polish, Swedish, Nor- Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. wegian, Finnish, Danish and other North Continental Ports Portugal, Spain, South France, Greece, Lykes Mediterranean Line Italy, Tunis and Algiers. Also Istanbul, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. _ Alexandr!a_, Beirut and Jaffa China, Japan, Philippines, Hawaii, Malay Lykes Orient Line States, Straits Settlements and Nether- Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. lands East Indies Cristobal, C. A.; Barranquilla, Cartagena, Colombia; La Guaira, Puerto Cabello. Lykes South American Line Guanta, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. Venezuela. Curacao, N. W. I. Trans- shipment to West Coast Central America via Cristobal, C. Z. London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, .... Lykes U. K. Line Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Avon- Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. mouth San Juan, Ponce and Mayaguez, Puerto - Lykes West Indies Line Rico. Havana, Santiago, and Pastelillo, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. Cuba. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ciudad Trujillo, D. R. Philippine Islands, China, Japan, Indo- Maersk Line China and the Straits Settlements Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. Marine Transport Lines, Inc. South American and European Ports J.S. Burrows Mar-Trade Corporation , Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann~ Inc. Mexican National Line Vera Cruz E.S. Binnings Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc. ---All ports along coast of West Africa ~_ Lykes Bros. SteamshipCo., In c_. Mississippi Shipping Co., inc. Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentine Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. Moller Line (U. K.) Ltd. ~ Various Ports ~ Bloomfield Steamship Co. " Moller Steamship Company, Inc. ~ Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Company~nc.- MungoCampbell & Co., Ltd. Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Naviera Aznar North Spain, Portugal _ThomasRice & Co., Inc. Navigazione Alta Italia Italian and Mediterranean Ports (Creole Line) Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc. East and West Coasts of India, Nedlloyd Line Karachi (Pakistan), & Persian Gulf Strachan Shipping Company via Suez Canal ~ Nervion Barcelona, Bilbao, Lisbon, Leixoes, and Oporto Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Casablanca, Lisbon, Barcelona, Marseilles, & North Star Line Genoa Strachan Shipping Company The Northern Pan America Line, A/S East Coast of South America Biehl & Company Parry Navigation Company, Inc. Various Ports Strachan Shipping Company Pittston Marine Corporation Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 51 FOREIGNSERVICES - continued

Lines Between Houston and: Houston Agent or Operator Polarus Steamship Co., Inc. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Prudential Lines Mediterranean and Persian Gulf Ports Abaunza Steamship Agency Ropner Line U.K.--Continent, London and Bremen Strachan Shipping Company Royal Netherlands Line Curacao, Aruba, Maracaibo Strachan Shipping Company Royal Netherlands Line Puerto Cabello, LaGuaira, East Venezuela, Strachan Shipping Company Paramaribo Runciman Shipping Co., Ltd. Various Ports Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. Scandinavian-American Line Oslo, Copenhagen, Gdynia and Gdansk Strachan Shipping Company Havana, LaGuayra, Canary Islands, Barce- Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc. Sidarama Company lona, Marseilles, Genoa and Naples Southern Steamship Company American Ports I Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc. States Marine Lines-- Barcelona, Marseilles, Genoa, Naples, States Marine Corporation Mediterranean Service Venice, Trieste, Piraeus, Persian Gulf States Marine Lines--Continental Havre, Dunkirk, Antwerp, Ghent, Bre- Service men, Rotterdam, Hamburg States Marine Corporation States Marine Lines--Far East Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Manila, Hong States Marine Corporation Service Kong, Shanghai States Marine Lines--\Vorhl States Marine Corporation Wide Full Cargo Service All World Ports Capetown, Port Elizabeth, East London, South African Marine Corporation Durban, Lourenco Marques States Marine Corporation Stockard Steamship Corp. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, [n(’. Sudden & Christenson. Inc. - \iario-us-Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co. Svend Hansen & Co., Inc. -Various -]?o-rts Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. Antwerp, Ghent, Rotterdam, Amster- dam, Bremen, Hamburg, Oslo, Goth- Swedish American Line enburg, Copenhagen, Gdynia, other Fowler & McVitie, Inc. Scandinavian Ports, and Montreal, Canada. Panama Canal and West Coast South Tropical Fruit Co., S. A. America Gonzalo Abaunza, Jr. United States Lines Australian and New Zealand Ports Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Havre. Antwerp, London, China, Japan, Philip- Waterman Steamship Corporation pines and Hawaii. Mediterranean and Bloomfield Steamship Company Adriatic Ports i ..... i Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Thomas Rice & Co., Inc. West Coast Line Bolivia -- Antwerpl Ghent, Rotterdam, Amster- ! dam, Bremen, Hamburg, Oslo, Goth- i Fowler & MeVitie, Inc. Wilhelmsen Line i enburg, Copenhagen, Gdynia and I other Scandinavian Ports

NOTE: Besides the above, there are many chartered vessels operating nnder private contract to various polls.

COASTWISESERVICES The following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and Gulf Ports; corrected as of October 1, 1950 i Houston Agent or Operator Lines Between Houston and: i Mobile, Alabama, and Brownsville, Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. ’ Texas, serving all intermediate ports. Gulf-Canal Lines Inc. Brownsville, Texas to Port Newark. New Newtex Steamship Corporation Jersey; Philadelphia, Pa; Baltimore, Newtex Steamship Corporation i Md.; Boston, Mass. Lines I From Houston to Houston Agent or Operator Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Mobile, Alabama, and Tampa, Florida. Luckenbach Gu]f Steamship Co.. Inc. Inc. [

INTERCOASTALSERVICES

The following shows the various tanker lines operating between Houston and Pacific Coast Ports; corrected as of October 1, 1950

Lines [ Between H¢uston and: Houston Agent or Operator -- ...... I Los A~ngeies’ S-at~ F~sco and Oakland, -- ...... Isthmian S/S Co. Calif., Portland, Oregon, and Seattle and i Isthmian S/S Company Tacoma, Wash...... i Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, I Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Calif. Portland, Oregon, and Seattle and Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co.. Inc. Inc. Tacoma, Washington ...... The Union Sulphur Co.. Inc. i West Coast Ports I Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

52 HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER,1950 RIVER BARGELINE ANDINTRACOASTAL SERVICE

the following fable shows the various barge and ship lines operating in and out of Houston through the Intracoastal Canal; corrected as of October I, 1950.

Lines Between Houston and: J Houston Agent or Operator American Barge Line (Common Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their ~ R. P. Dee, General Agent Carrier) tributaries ~ Anderson Petroleum Transpor- -!- Intracoastal Canal Points Anderson Petroleum Transportation Co. ration Co. ! Arthur-Smith Corporation Intracoastal Canal and Mississippi River Points Arthur-Smith Corporation Barge Transport Company i Intracoastal Canal Points, Etc. Barge Transport Company Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. (common -- Mobile, Alabama, and Brownsville, Carrier) Texas, serving all intermediate ports. Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. Butcher-Arthur, Inc. Gulf, Mississippi, Ohio River Ports i Butcher-Arthur, Inc. Coyle Lines, Inc. (Common Between New Orleans and Carrabelle, Carrier) Florida and Intermediate Points Coyle...... Lines, Inc. Crown Central Petroleum Cor- t potation Intracoastal Canal Points Crown Central Petroleum Corporation All Intracoastal Canal points between Dixie Carriers, Inc. (Common i Carrier) Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houston Dixie Carriers, Inc. ] and Brownsville, Texas EdwardsTransportat~ion Col iOil i Gulf and Mississippi River Points Edwards Transportation Co. Trans.) . _ [ J. S. Gissel & Company ’ Intraeoastal Canal Points ¯ J.S. Gissel & Company Harbor Transport Company ~ Intracoastal Canal Points Harbor Transport Company Gulf, Intracoastal Canal and Lower Mis- H. W. A. Harms Towing Company¯ ] H.W.A. Harms Towing Company ~ sissippi River Points Jno. I. Hay Co~., Inc. (Common Mississippi River and Intracoastal Canal ---- Carrier) i Points Jno. I. Hay Co., Inc. Houston Barge Terminal Gulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi and Ohio River Points General Stevedores, Inc. Cornelius Kroll & Company Gulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi and Ohio River Points Cornelius Kroll & Company Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. (Common Carrier) Mississippi River and Ohio River Points Virgil J. Angell, Southern General Agent Moore Oil Terminal Mississippi River and Its Tributaries ~-- Moore OilTerminal Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio River National Oil Transport Corp. Points NationalOil TransportCorp. Pure Oil Company Intracoastal Canal Points Pure Oil Company IntraeoastalCanal Points,Ohio and Mis- Chas. C. Smith & Company Chas. C. Smith & Company sissippiRivers and TheirTributaries Intracoasta],Mississippi and Ohio River Texas TowingCompany Texas Towing Company Po;nts Union Barge Line Corp. (Com- mon Carrier) Mississippi River and Ohio River Points Warner J. Banes, Houston Agent Wilkins Barge Line. Ltd. Gulf and Mississippi River Points Wilkins Barge Line, Ltd.

NOTE: Besides the above services, 93 tanker lines serve Port of Houston, operating to all principal world ports; additionally a large number of tankers are operated exclusively in handling products of local refineries under private agreement.

FIR AND YELLOW PINE LUMBER AND RED CEDAR SHINGLES Contractors/or... Installationand Maintenance of POWER AND INDUSTRIAL PIPING W. H. Norris Lumber Company Industrial, Commercialand Residential 710-15 First National Bank Building HOUSTON, TEXAS PLUMBING ¯ HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING

R. W. SMITH & CO. TheWarren Company, Inc. CUSTOMS BROKERS ¯ FREIGHT FORWARDERS ServingSouth Texas for Over35 Years HOUSTON,TEXAS Telephone CEntral 9455 614 WALKERAVENUE PHONEFA-1163 703 SCANLANBLDG. HOUSTON2, TEXAS Est. 1914

HOUSTONPORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 5:3 llkeonl, Y YESTERDAY"...Remember? Thursday, August 19, 1915 was to have been a gala day abruptly postponed while Houstonians sped to the assistance of for the Port of Houston, Texas. Culminating the efforts of their more unfortunate neighbors along the coast. scores of farsighted Houstonians over a period of nearly two The real story of the years of work underlying the develop- decades, the epochal occasion was to mark the first regularly ment of the port and climaxed by the first regularly scheduled scheduled steamship sailing from the young port, and elaborate sailing cannot be told in a few paragraphs. As early as 1897, plans were completed for the celebration of the vessel’s arrival. the proponents of a deepwater ship channel for the Port of The arrangements committee, headed by Colonel Thomas Houston were persuading the Congress of the United States that H. Ball, mailed out 5000 invitations to the ceremony, which such a project was feasible, and Congressman J. C. Hutcheson was to be highlighted by canoe and launch races, an automobile that year managed to have passed, in the House of Representa- parade, a watermelon and barbecue feast, addresses by a host tives of the 54th Congress, a provision allowing for the survey- of prominent speakers, and the musical fanfare of the 200-piece ing of Buffalo Bayou with the view of dredging a 25-foot United States Army Band which was to escort the vessel from channel from Galveston Bay to the foot of Main Street. A the San Jacinto Battlegrounds. The visiting cruiser, U. S. S. favorable report of this survey, filed on December 1, 1897, "Sacramento," was to be "on hand for the occasion, along with recommended a S4,000,000 expenditure for a channel of that depth, to extend from Galveston to Morgan’s Cut. Colonel Ball, reporters from Collier’s Magazine and dozens of other publica- ~ tions. An item in the August 14th edition of THE HOUSTON at that time the only Texas member o, the Rivers and Harbors POSTstated that Bud Randolph of the Houston Ice & Brew- Committee, reported that one of the signers of the survey re- ing Company"had perfected arrangements for flights by aero- port, Major Miller, testified before the committee that "the nauts over the city, and along the channel on the celebration feasibility of bringing deepwater to Houston was beyond doubt" day" and that a Bleriot monoplane, "The Southern Select," but that he had grave misgivings as to "substantial use" by sea- would be used. It was to have been a great day, indeed! going vessels, which could load and unload cargo at Galveston But alas! The weatherman played a cruel trick on those without coming an additional fifty-seven miles inland, in- ardent backers of the new port, and August 19th found Hous- volving valuable time and increased insurance costs. It was ton floundering in the wake of one of the wildest hurricanes suggested that the channel be dredged only to Harrisburg or that ever hit the Texas Gulf Coast. The storm struck Port Long Reach, with a resultant saving of a million dollars. In the Arthur on Monday, evening, August 16th, and followed the light of this and other testimony, a re-survey was deemed coastline all way to Corpus Christi, taking a toll of 200 lives necessary, and the committee agreed to recommend an appro- anti leaving a S15,000,000 trail of damage and devastation in priation of $600,000, providing the second survey report was its wake. Houston suffered little damage, beyond discomfiture favorable. and the sharp gusts of high winds, but the gala celebration was Earlier projects, from 1871 through 1890, had provided for ¯ Con/in:ted on Pagv ~-

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54 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL

HOUSTON PILOTS Houston Offices: Telephone: CA-9451 Galveston Offices: 714 Petroleum Bldg. Night Nos. 1206 United States National Bank Building JU-6876, MA-5777 Telephone 2-2011 Pilots Boats: Houston Pilots Nos. 1 and 3--Meet vessels on Galveston Bar. Foreign vessels to or from a foreign or American port ...... $ 5.50 per foot draft American vessels to or from a foreign port 5.50 per foot draft Americanvessels underregister to or fromsea (coastwise)iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 4.00 per foot draft American vessels under enrollment to or from sea . . . 4.00 per foot draft All vessels to or from Bolivar Roads ...... 4.00 per foot draft Swinging vessels for compass adjustment ...... 25.00 Zone No. 1 All points confined between the Turning Basin to and including Manchester Terminal. Zone No. 2 All points confined from Manchester Terminal to and including Norsworthy. Zone No. 3 All points confined from Norsworthy to and including Ordnance Depot. Zone No. 4 All points confined from Ordnance Depot to and including Morgan’s Point. All shifts confined to any one zone will be $20.00. All shifts from points in one zone to points in adjoining zone $25.00. All shifts from any point in any one zone passing through the adjoining zone to points in the next adjoining zone $30.00. All shifts from points in any one zone passing through the next two adjoining zones to points in the third adjoining zone $35.00. WhenPilot is detained aboard vessel in Bolivar Roads for the convenience of the vessel, a charge of $10.00 for the first hour and $5.00 for each hour thereafter will be charged against the vessel.

Suderman & Young Towing Co., Inc., 417 Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas. Schedule of Tug Boat Intracoastal Towing & Transportation Corp., 502 Caroline St., Houston 2, Texas. Operators Bay-Houston Towing Company, 827-28 Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas.

ASSISTING VESSEL under own power, Docking or Offdocking included: 1. Morgan Point to Baytown ...... $155.00 2. MorganPoint to Ordnance Depot ...... 225.00 3. Morgan Point to Shell, Port Adams, Todd Shipyards, or Sheffield ...... 250.00 4. Morgan Point to Houston ...... 295.00 5. Bolivar Roads to Morgan Point or Baytown ...... 295.00 6. Bolivar Roads to Shell ...... 365.00 7. Bolivar Roads to Houston ...... 415.00 8. Galveston or Texas City to Baytown ...... 350.00 9. Galveston or Texas City to Houston ...... 475.00 10. Baytown to Ordnance Depot ...... 150.00 11. Baytown to Shell, Port Adams or Sheffield ...... 155.00 12. Baytown to Houston ...... 270.00 13. Houston to Sinco, Galena, Crown, or Norsworthy ...... 140.00 14. Houston to Sheffield, Todd Shipyards, Port Adams, or Shell ...... 175.00 15. Houston to Ordance Depot ...... 250.00 (Norsworthy, Crown, Galena, Sinco, Clinton, Manchester take same rates as Houston from Ordnance Depot or below.) DOCKING OR OFFDOCKING 1. At points between Turning Basin and Manchester Terminal, inclusive ...... $ 90.00 2. At points below Manchester Terminal to Norsworthy, inclusive .... 100.00 3. At points below Norsworthy to Ordnance Depot, inclusive ...... 140.00 4. At Baytown ...... 105.00 SHIFTING 1. Between points at Turning Basin to Manchester Terminal, inclusive .. $105.00 2. Between points below Manchester Terminal to Norsworthy, inclusive 140.00 3. Between points below Norsworthy to Shell, inclusive ...... 150.00 4. From one berth to another at the same dock between points below Manchester Terminal to Ordnance Depot, inclusive ...... 145.00 5. From one berth to another at Baytown ...... i05.00 Holding vessel off dock and redocking, shifting rates will apply. Standing by or holding vessel in stream or alongside bank awaiting berth, pulling time rate will apply. Towing "dead" ships between points on Houston Ship Channel, other than above specified, pulling time rate will apply.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 55 HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL RATE OF CHARGES FOR

Office: 7437 Canal Street Telephone: WA-4488

Contract and charges made for mooring or unmooring ves- Charge of $15.00 for Unmooringand $15.00 for Mooring in sels between the Maritime Committee and the Houston Moor- shifting from one berth to another; except when shifting to the ing Company. adjoining berth, which is a ship’s length of 500 feet; there For the purpose of this contract, the Houston Ship Channel will be a charge of $20.00 for the entire service. from Houston Turning Basin to the U. S. Maritime Commis- A charge of $8.00 per hour for waiting time after the first sion shall be the total territory served by the Houston Mooring hour on all vessels. If a movement is cancelled after the men Company. are at the pier, there will be a charge of one hour at the wait- ing time rate. No charge for delayed sailing or shifting on DOCKING AND UNDOCKING account of weather conditions. Charge of $15.00 for Mooring or Unmooringvessels at any There will be a charge of $20.00 for any vessel docking at place in the Houston Ship Channel between the Turning Basin any Mud Bank. A double docking fee will be charged when and Todd Houston Shipyard, inclusive. docking one ship alongside another. 2,v,.qg. Operations on the rail-water terminals in the Port of Houstonare carried on under the provisions of tariff published by the Navigation District, which tariff is concurred in generally by the three private terminal companiesoperating for hire. This tariff contains twelve sections, as follows: SECTION ONE Preliminary SECTION SIX Wharfage SECTION TWO Regulations Governing Use of SECTION SEVEN Free Time and Penalty Waterways SECTION EIGHT Freight Handling Machinery SECTION THREE Regulations Governing Usc ot SECTION NINE Miscellaneous Charges Facilities SECTION TEN Vegetable Oil Handling Plant SECTION FOUR Dockage SECTION ELEVEN Houston Public Grain Elevator SECTION FIVE Shed Hire SECTION TWELVE Loading and Unloading

The Port of Houstoncontains four active terminals soliciting and handling public freight and ope- rating for hire, as listed herewith:- THE NAVIGATION DISTRICT MANCHESTER TERMINAL CORPORATION Ownsand controls fifteen berths Have four ship’s berths GULF ATLANTIC WAREHOUSE CO. SHIP CHANNEL COMPRESS COMPANY "Long Reach Docks"--Houston Wharf Co. (Sprunts Docks) Have eight berths Have two ship’s berths

The tariff and all supplementsgoverning terminal operations in the port maybe secured by interested parties writing Navigation District, P. O. Box9187, Houston11, Texas

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a channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide, sufficient to accom- The 3000-ton vessel measured 312 feet in length, with a modate the classes of vessels then navigating the waterways. beam of 48 feet, and a load draft of 22 feet. One of three ves- The original deepwater project, which was adopted by the River sels designed specifically for Gulf and Atlantic Coast trade, she and Harbor Act of 1899 and modified in 1900 and 1905, pro- was owned and operated by the Southern Steamship Company, vided for a channel 25 feet deep at mean low tide, 150 feet an affiliate of the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Line. wide in Galveston Bay and 100 feet wide through Morgan Recognizing the necessity for regularly-scheduled sailings Point, and up the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou for a if the new port was to prosper, Houstonians had pledged $104,- distance of 25 miles, to a turning basin 600 feet wide and 25 000 in support of a special committee, appointed to negotiate feet deep. In 1901, the Rivers and Harbors Committee, on a with various shipping lines for the establishment of regular ser- nationwide tour of harbors and waterways, visited Houston vice through the port. Leader of this movement was Colonel and as a result of their findings recommended the appropria- R. H. Baker, whose wide range of business in railway affairs tion of $1,000,000 in 1902. With these funds, the channel was had brought him into contact with the many steamship lines. dredged to a depth of 18½ feet, half The committee was composed of R. H. of the approved width, from Galveston Spencer, A. S. Cleveland, C. L. Desel Bay to Morgan Point. and D. D. Peden, and with the finan- In the interim, Houston was boom- cial backing of their fellow townsmen ing. Confident that Houston was to behind them, the group had little diffi- become a deepwater port and great rail- culty in convincing the A. G. & W. I. way center of the Southwest, industrial- Lines that required tonnage could be ists were attracted to the city. Although guaranteed for regular coastwise sailings, cotton was still "king," the lumber in- at ten day intervals. Immediately, plans dustry increased in importance at such were formulated for the celebration of a rapid rate that lumber became Hous- the first sailing, and further sailings ton’s Number Two commodity. The were scheduled for the first, tenth and old T. & B. V. Railway merged with twentieth day of each month. two other lines, and built a terminal on On July 15th, City Engineer Sands what is now the site of Union Station. announced that the new city dock was From 1904 to 1910, appropriations completed, and the cargo bound for the from the Congress for carrying on the Port of Houston was ordered delivered authorized development of the water- to Pier 44, North River in New York way were hardly sufficient to maintain on July 20th. On August 5th, Special the channel. Meanwhile, the oil industry Agent E. F. Clements of the Executive was born, marking the dawn of a new Department of the Southern Steamship era in Texas. And finally, tiring of the Companyinspected the ship channel and delayed action by the Congress, Mayor wharf, and gave the official greenlight Baldwin Rice of Houston initiated pro- to the new coastwise service. ceedings which would allow the city to The "SATILLA" left New York take over and bring to completion the Brig. Gen. H. M. Robert wasU. S. Di- vision Engineerfor the Gulf of Mexico,1895- on August 10th, bound for Houston. work on the channel; these efforts re- 1900, whenthe ShipChannel project wasfirst Before the hurricane struck, on Monday, sulted in the enactment by the Congress undertaken. she was heard from, proceeding on in 1910 of a bill which provided for the schedule toward her destination. No establishment of a Navigation District, having the authority to further word was received from her until Thursday, when administer, improve and operate facilities on the channel. Houston Pilot Fred Allien, who had expected to bring the vessel At last, the major obstacles retarding the growth of the up the channel, spotted her safely "riding the hook" in Bolivar Port of Houston were removed. Limited space precludes the re- Roads, awaiting word that Houston’s channel was still navigable counting of the development of the port from that date until after the storm. The next day, Friday, August 20th, Captain the present, but through the untiring efforts of such stalwarts Charles Crotty, U. S. Engineer in charge of the channel, took as Jesse Jones, R. M. Farrar, John T. Scott, Dan Ripley, Mayor soundings from Morgan’s Point to Red Fish Reef, reporting a Rice and his successor, Mayor Ben Campbell and hundreds of clear depth of 24 ~ feet all the way, and thus it happened that others who in those early years foresaw the great development on a clear bright Sunday morning in August, 1915, the sturdy now existing along the Houston Ship Channel, the Port of "SATILLA" steamed up the new channel to the Port of Hous- Houston became a reality. ton, inaugurating the first of many regularly scheduled sailings An important milestone in the development of the great through America’s now-second-busiest Port. inland seaport was the arrival of the first scheduled steamer, the S. S. "SATILLA," which under her own power and guided by three tugboats, proceeded up the channel to a berth at City Dock, arriving there at 3:00 P. M. on Sunday, August 22nd, three days behind schedule as a result of the hurricane. Beyond the scurrying of a mighty squadron of small craft on hand to herald her arrival, there was little fanfare, although more than 2000 persons lined the turning basin to view the spectacle. Mayor Campbell extended the handshake of official welcome VIA",,o,,,o,= to Captain Frank P. Robinson, Master of the "SATILLA," HOUSTON which thence began the unloading of her cargo of 260 listed items, including sardines, Italian lemons, roofing paper, cigars, hats, vinegar, dyes, etc.

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 57 U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OUT=PATIENT CLINIC HouSton MEDICAL DIRECTOR W. H. GORDON, USPHS Medical Officer in Charge Appraiser’s Stores Building Room 216. 7300 Wingate Avenue Houstoa 11, Texas MARITIMEINTERESTS U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FOREIGN QUARANTINE MEDICAL DIRECTOR W. H. GORDON, USPHS andFo,elgn Consulates Medical Officer in Charge Appraiser’s Stores Building Room G-5, 7300 Wingate Avenue Houston 11, Texas DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE UNITEDSTATES SERVICES BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE CORPS OF ENGINEERS WARREN G. BROWN, District Manager Engineer Officials in Charge of the Construction and office: 602 Federal Office Building ...... CApitol 7201 maintenance of the Houston Ship Channel: WEATHER BUREAU .... E.A. FARRELL CApitol 6919 COL. B. I. DAVIS,Corps of Engineers Office: 1002 Federal Office Bldg ...... District Engineer, Galveston ...... Tel. 2-8621 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE KENNETH HEAGY, Corps of Engineers BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY Chief Operations Division, Galveston ...... Tel. 2-8621 DR. DON B. STRICKLER, Inspector in Charge C. F. BAEHR, Resident Engineer, Harrisburg Field Office ...... WAyside 1583 MEAT INSPECTION DIVISION Office: 907 Federal Office Bldg ...... FAirfax 3000 COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE DIVISION DISTRICT NO. 22 ...... SAM D. W. Low Office: 204 Appraiser’s Stores Bldg ...... WEntworth 8178 DAVIDH. EVERETT,Inspector of Imported Meats and ASST. COLLECTOROF CUSTOMS GEORGE L. C. PRATT Animal By-Products Office: Customhouse, Galveston, Texas ...... Tel. 7464 WM. f. EGAN, Veterinary Livestock Inspector Houston Office: 404 Federal Office Building ...... CApitol 7201 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE Division of Foreign Plant Quarantine DEPUTY COLLECTOR IN CHARGE JAMES M. JEFFERIS Office: 407 Federal Office Building ...... CApitol 7201 H. C. ~VhLLENDER, Inspector in Charge Barge Office: U. ’S. Appraiser’s Stores Bldg. O. D. MORRIS,Principal Assistant 7300 Wingate St ...... WAyside 4107 GLENE. HUNT,Plant Quarantine Inspector APPRAISER OF MERCHANDISE H.L. BOWER JOHN a. WARD, Plant Quarantine Inspector WAyside 2297 U. S. Appraiser’s Stores Bldg., 7300 Wingate St ...... MITCHELL SLOBODNIK, Plant Quarantine Inspector 206-7-8 U. S. Appraiser’s Stores Building DEPUTY COLLECTORIN CHARGE, Baytown, Texas 7300 Wingate Avenue ...... WOodcrest 7880 A. B. PIGEONNE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WO-7880 U. S. APPRAISER’S STORES BLDG. CUSTOMS AGENT IN CHARGE .. ALVIN F. SCHARFF 7300 Wingate Street, Houston 11, Texas Office: 902 Federal Office Building, Houston, Texas ..... FAirfax 5341 Gulf States Region, Room 332 ...... WO-3975 JOE H. McKINNEY, Regional Manager NAVY District No. 9, Room324 ...... WO-1906 THE. SUPERVISING INSPECTOR OF NAVAL MATERIAL L. L. McCABE,Engineer in Charge CAPT. D. L. ERWIN, U. S. N. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Federal Office Building ...... CHarter 0389 General Materials ...... CHarter 0389 Medical Officer in Charge CApitol 2275 & 6 Room216, Appraiser’s Stores Building. Petroleum ...... 7300 Wingate Avenue ...... WAyside 5424 Communications ...... CHarter 0063 CApitol 9501 Property Disposal ...... IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE MILITARY SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICE L. D. CROSSMAN,Officer in Charge Office: 520 Federal Office Building ...... CHarter 5626 CMDR. RICHARD D. WHITE, U. S. N. Mailing Address ...... P. O. Box 4059--Houston 14, Texas Cotton Exchange Bldg ...... BLackstone 3289 COASTGUARD, 7300 Wingate St., Houston 11, Texas FOREIGNCONSULATES Captain of the Port Representative, WO-9407 ARGENTINA: CLORINDOA. MENDIETA, Consul CDR. LEOA. WELSH...... 7315 South Main ...... MAdison 2915 Marine Inspection, Officer in Chaxge, ]BELGIUM: R. C. PATTERSON,Consul ~ PReston 1434 CDR. LEO A. WELSH ...... WO-9407 1816 Second National Bank Bldg ...... A. A. CRISPIN, Vice-Consul Investigating Officer, LCDR.JOHN D. HILL .WO-9407 609 West Building ...... BLackstone 5447 BRAZIL: COLMARDALTRO, Consul Personnel Officer, (Licensing and Certification 1431 Commerce Building ...... CHarter 4195 of merchant seamen) LCDR.WILLIAM J. WILLMAN...... WO-9407 CHINA: SIEN-YUNG Yu, Consul W. S. CHUNG, Vice-Consul Senior Material Officer (Vessel Inspection) 714 Richmond, Zone 6 ...... JAckson 1177 LCDR. WILLIAM T. SMITH ...... WO-9407 [ COLOMBIA:JUAN DE DIOS AMADOR, Consul Shipping Commissioner JOSEPH B. CARSKADONWA-5000 1655 Richmond ...... KEystone 1057

HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 58 COSTARICA: CARLG. STEARNS, Consul 12th Floor Second National Bank Bldg ...... CHarter 6811 DESCRIPTIONOF THE PORT CUBA: ENRIQUE MORALES DE LOS RIOS, Consul (Continued from Page 43) 3717 Audubon, Zone 6 ...... JUstin 7624 Through the 3 i~ million-bushel Public Grain Elevator DENMARK:K. W. TIDEMANN, Vice-Consul flowed approximately 60 million bushels of grain in 1949. 408 Cotton Exchange Bldg ...... CEntral 9385 Operated for transit movement primarily and for storage only DOMINICANREPUBLIC: T. L. EVANS, Vice-Consul 1020 Bankers Mortgage Bldg ...... PReston 5153 to a limited extent, the mammothElevator serves two ships’ berths at Navigation District Wharves 14 and 15. Through its ECUADOR: HERNAN PALLARES Z., Consul three receiving legs and four shipping legs, each with a 25,000 540 First National Bank Building ...... PReston 6844 bushel-per-hour capacity, two ships can be simultaneously loaded EDGARC. H. SOULE,Hon. Consul at the combined rate of 100,000 bushels per hour, and vessels 540 First National Bank Bl~g ...... FAirfax 5445 rarely spend more than 24 hours in the grain berths. Sutorbilt FINLAND: JAMES M. LYKES, JR. Consul vacuum machines make possible ship-to-car or car-to-ship load- 306 Cotton Exchange Building ...... PReston 7211 ing of copra and other bulk materials, and two Link Belt car FRANCE: HENRI JEAN JOB, Consular Agent unloaders at the Elevator can dump seven railroad grain cars 2139 Tangley Road ...... LYnchburg 7322 per hour. A new $56,000 gas-fired, direct-heat type Hess Grain GREAT BRITAIN: J. THYNEHENDERSON, Consul-General Dryer, with a 1500-bushel-per-hour capacity, has replaced the L. B. DUFTON,M.B.E., M.C., Consul Port’s antiquated 26-year-old drier, a valuable adjunct to the D. J. GRAYBROOK,Vice-Consul Port’s grain handling facilities. 3103 Fannin ...... JAckson 4281 At Manchester, the Navigation District maintains a bulk GUATEMALA:T. L. EVANS, Consul outloading plant for handling chemicals, fertilizers, etc., from 1020 Bankers Mortgage Bldg ...... PReston 5153 cars or trucks to shipside. Twovegetable oil storage tanks are HAITI: T. L. EVANS,Consul located near shipside, permitting the handling of oil between 1020 Bankers Mortgage Bldg ...... PReston 5153 ship, tank car and storage units. At Wharf 13 is located 45,000 cubic feet of refrigerated space, and several wharves are equipped HONDURAS: HENRY F. HOLLAND, Consul 16th Floor Mellie Esperson Bldg ...... FAirfax 2391 with bunkering facilities, as listed on page 63 of this edition, in the article briefly outlining and describing the privately-owned MEXICO: ALVAR0 DOMINGUEZ V., Consul terminal and industrial facilities along the Houston Ship Chan- LuIs ZORRILLA, Vice-Consul nel. 236 Mellie Esperson Bldg ...... FAirfax 1700 Houston is an industrial port; approximately 75 per cent NETHERLANDS: EDMUNDPINCOFFS, Consul of her cargoes emanate from the nearly one hundred great in- 725 Cotton Exchange Building ...... PReston 8191 DR. ALBERTVAN WYK, Vice-Consul dustrial plants and terminals lining the channel or located in 624 South ff*Iain Street, Pasadena, Texas near proximity thereto. Because of the prevalence of virtually unlimited quantities of oil, natural gas and other important NICARAGUA: G. PORTOCARRERO LACAYO, Consul 1108 Sul Ross, Apt. 3 ...... LYnchburg 9426 minerals and raw materials in the Houston area, dozens of chem- ical plants and affiliated, allied and naturally-contiguous indus- NORWAY: THORLEIF B. JORGENSEN, Vice-Consul tries have located in this area in the last three decades, and the 4215 Graustark ...... JUstin 5661 current postwar development has been spectacular. Total in- PANAMA:JOSE RAMONMARTINELLI, Consul dustrial-plant investment approximates one billion dollars, and 1632 W. Alabama ...... JUstin 6609 great quantities of the production of these plants constitute FLOYD H. BALDWIN, JR., Vice-Consul the bulk of Port of Houston’s tonnage. This fact alone points 4388 Wheeler ...... LYnchburg 0284 to the relative economic stability of the port and, not satisfied PARAGUAY:LuIs RODRIGUEZ, Consul with this, port authorities and shipping interests are redoubling 3717 Audubon Street. Zone 6 ...... KEystone 3863 their efforts to attract more dry cargo business and foreign PERU: LuIS RODRIGUEZ,Consul cargoes of all descriptions through the port. Port of Houston 3717 Audubon Street. Zone 6 ...... KEystone 3863 is indisputably the "Oil Capital" of the world, and leading the PORTUGAL: FISHER G. DORSEY, Vice-Consul parade of her progress is of course the refining industry. Of 1117 Vine ...... PReston 4141 increasing importance are her chemical, steel, pipe, cement, SWEDEN: GUNNARDRYSELIUS, Consul paper, ship-building and other industries, and Port of Houston 3602 Montrose ...... Linden 5568 has historically nearly always been America’s Number One VENEZUELA: RAFAEL ROMAN DAVILA D., Consul Cotton port. Texas produces approximately one-third of the 3607 Yoakum ...... JAckson 6129 cotton grown in the South, and at Houston are vast cotton warehouse facilities. Cotton has played a major role in the de- velopment of the bayou port for over a hundred years. MISCELLANEOUS In addition to the innumerable dozens of basic raw mate- HOUSTON PILOTS rials, low-cost fuel and power and a large, dependable labor 714 Petroleum Building ...... CApitol 9451 supply, Houston’s other highly-important attraction to indus- HOUSTON MARITIME ASSOCIATION try lies in her warm, humid but generally mild climate. JOSEPH E. DAVIES,P~esident ; MRS.DOROTHY J. ZUCK, Secreta~’y Annual rainfall averages about 48 inches; winters are short and 226 Cotton Exchange Building ...... PReston 5517 exceedingly mild, affording a year-round outdoor work season. THE PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES Six major trunk-line railroads serve the port; the Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, BurL PORT OF HOUSTON lington and Rock Island reach out across the great hinterland, JOSEPH E. DAVIES, President and highway transportation through the medium of well-estab- States Marine Lines ...... PReston 3374 G. HARRISEMIG, Secretary and Tveasurer lished trucking lines is available in all directions from the inland 826 Cotton Exchange Bldg ...... CApitol 7266 port. Houston . . . hustling, bustling and progressive, is the BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK South’s largest city; Oil, Chemical and Cotton Capital of CAPT. R. L. WYNNE, Correspondent and Surveyor America, second-busiest United States port, she looks ahead to CApitol 1394 further growth, increased trade, higher production and a steady, LLOYD’S AGENT heavier flow of commerce in the second half of the Twentieth HERBERT SHILSTONE ...... KEystone 1474 Century. HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 59 F REI GHT ~i:F~WAR DE R S AND~~OKERS

BEHRINGSHIPPING CO. 923 M. & M. Building ...... CHarter b370 GULF PORTS SHIPPING COMPANY CApital 1737 M. & M. Building .... .

Chronicle Building CHarter 993b FRANKX. HOGAN 216 Scanlan Building . PReston 4844

HOUSTONFREIGHT ~ORWARDING AGENTS Captain Charles Crotty, above, as U. S. Engineer in charge 804 Scanlan Building . . CHarter 0417 of the Houston Ship Channel, staked out the busy Houston Turning INTERNATIONAL FORWARDING CO. Basin. Captain Crotty and Gen. E~lgar Jadwin, below, pioneered the INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITERS, INC. development of the Houston waterway. Gen. Jadwin was Galveston ( Foreign Traffic) District Engineer, 1903-190"/, and Chief of Engineers, ! 92"/- 1930. 3201 Polk Avenue .... CHarter 6589 JUDSON-SHELDON DIVISION National Carloadlng Corporation 201 Cotton Exchange Bldg. _ r. J. D. LATTA FORWARDING AGENT CHarter 1746 519 Cotton Exchange Buildlng _ o_ J. R.M~HELS, JR. 1127 Cotton Exchange Building CHarter 0426

H. E. SCHURIG & CO. 701 Cotton Exchange Building ATwood 7451

R. W. SMITH & CO. 703 Scanlan Building .... CEntral 9455 SOUTHPORTS FORWARDING CO. 210 Scanlan Building ...... PReston 0784

THE STONE FORWARDING COMPANY B06 Cotton Exchange Building PReston 9187 C. J. THIBODEAUX & CO. 421 Cotton Exchange Building PReston BI66 W. R. ZANES& CO. 220 Cotton Exchange Building ...... CEntral 9425 H. L. ZIEGLER,INC. 20b Cotton Exchange Buldling ...... PReston 5367

SOUTHERNCOMPRESS & WIIREHOIISE CO. Ceow~MAeme tAutloe Y TURNING BASIN PLANT HOUSTON, TEXAS 24 HourMarine Service 4911 HARRISBURG Located Adjacent to Wharf No. 9 Phone W0=0410 of the NavigationDistrict PersonalLaundry and CleaningSolicited PRICES REASONABLE OFFICE LOCATEDAT PLANT -- PHONEWAyside 4101 i i HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 60 KOLKER CHEMICAL BUILDING PLANT HERE Commercial production of benzene hexachloride at their new Houston, Texas plant has just been announced by the Kolker Chemical Works, Inc., of Newark, New Jersey. The technical product produced will have the high gammacontent o- 36%, as compared to normal technical BHCwhich usually has only 12-14~ gamma content. In reducing the percentage of other isomers and concen- trating the gammaisomer to 36~, it is possible to produce ex- HUM ceptionally high quality dust and emulsion concentrates. Other advantages include large savings to consumers on freight costs and warehouse space. Production of BHCwas centered at Houston because of available raw materials and markets for the finished product. BHChas proved to be a most effective cotton insecticide and vers when used in combination with D.D.T., it offers the cotton planter a complete insect control program. During the past two seasons there has been insufficient BHCproduced to supply the demands of Southern cotton far- the Coastline O Bunker Fuel Terminals ¯ MarineService Stations

You can follow the Humble route on the water, just as the motorist does on the Highway. For the Humble-Esso Marine sign is a familiar one at every important point along the Texas coast- line.

For Deep Draft Equipment: Bunker fuels; special products: EssomarineDeep Draft Lubricants, including Marine Tur- bine Oils, Diesel Oils, CompoundedOils for reciprocating engines.

For Shallow Draft Equipment: A complete line of Hum- ble-Esso Marine Fuels and Lubricants.

For General Marine Use: Marine Paints and Solvents and Rust-Ban Protective Coatings.

mers. The substantial production available to insecticide manu- Humble-Esso Marine Engineering Service is available facturers from the Kolker Chemical Works, will help satisfy to help you select the right lubricants and to make the increased requirements for this insecticide. periodic ship-board check-ups. Kolker Chemical Works are also basic manufacturers of D.D.T., 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T at their Newark, N. J. plant. In addition to supplying domestic needs for agricultural chemicals, the Kolker Chemicals Works is in an excellent position to handle export inquiries due to their plant locations close to the Ports 07 New York, Newark, and Houston. These manufacturing facilities enable Kolker to produce special formulations often required in foreign countries to meet unusual pest control prob- HUMBL lems. These chemicals for agriculture play an important part in the farmer’s battle with insect pests and weeds, enabling him to effectively combat many of his most important problems, resulting in more profitable farming. Kolker Chemicals are manufactured under strict laboratory control to assure a high HUMBLEOIL & REFINING CO. quality product which will give the best possible results under variable field conditions. HOUSTON, TEXAS

HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 6! OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS HOUSTON L. S. Adams J.M. Lykes, Jr. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE W. J. Aicklen C.E. Naylor 1950 W. B. Bates J.A. Neath W. S. Bellows Ralph Neuhaus Ed A. Blackburn Sydnor Oden George R. Brown *J. B. Patterson P. P. Butler Chas. F. Reed E. A. Craft Tobias Sakowitz OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE *E. D. Cumming W.G. Saville EXECUTIVE BOARD *Wm. G. Farrini:ton A.D. Simpson *M. M. Feld Gardiner Symonds P. P. BUTLER ...... President John C. Flanagan R.T. Thompson , W. B. BATES...... Vice-President *William J. Goldston Harry C. Webb J. A. NEATH...... Vice-President *Dr. Denton Kerr J. Barry York J. BARRY YORK ...... Vice-President *Director at Large (serves one year) Where JOHi~1 C. FLANAGAN...... Treasu.rer RALPH NEUHAUS ...... Secretary of the Board ED. A. BLACKBURN...... Member at Large ~r EighteenRailroads GARDINER SYMONDS...... Member at Large R. T. THOMPSON ...... Member at Large DEPARTMENTS W. N. BLANTON Executive Meettke Sea Exeentiv, Vice Pregident and General Manager W. N. BLANTON Executite Vice President and General Manager W. M. HURLEY Secretary and Assistant General Manager

Industrial Department ~". M. HURLEY, Manager

Transportation E. E. DULI,AHAN, Manager YARLW. GERLOFF, Assistant Manager

Magazine HOUSTON C. E. GILBERT, JR., Editor and Manager

Military Affairs FRANK DAVIDSON, Manager

Foreign Trade C. FLOYD MARTIN, Manager R. L. HORLANDER,Assistant Manager

Office Manager TOM ARCHER

Membership JOHN WESTNEY, JR.

Agriculture ~r. 0. COX, Manager

Civic Department WILLIAM B. BLACK, JR., Manager Foreign Trade Service Convention and Tourists PAUL E. BUEHNER, Manager to fit your needs! Public Works JAMES M. RICHARDS, Manager

Publicity LEONARD PATILLO, Director Foreign traders of Houston can depend on the National BEN FORTSON, Assistant Manager

Bank of Commerce to provide the sound counsel and Research--Industrial and Natural Resources financial assistance so vital to their business. Dr. F. A. BUECHEL, Manager

Whatever your problem . . . whether financing, market- Statistics ing, sources of supply, exchange problems, trade or HAROLD L. MESSECAR, Manager credit information . . . you will find our Foreign Depart- Aviation ment well equipped to provide your organization COL. XWALTERH. REID, Manager with complete and expert foreign trade service. Trade Extension HOWARD N. MARTIN, Manager

Junior Chamber of Commerce JOHN FRAKER. Evecutile Secretar~

Action BEN FORTSON, Edilor and Managc, Offices: 8th Floor Commerce Bldg. Phone: PReston 5111

62 HOUSTON PORT BOOK FOR OCTOBER, 1950 TERMINALSAND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES

Along the banks of the Houston Ship Channel, as it winds its meticulous way from Galveston Bay through Morgan Point, up the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou, are concentrated nearly one hundred great plants, refineries and other shipping and manufacturing installations. The upper 25 mile section of this busy artery of commerceis literally sprinkled with the tanks, towers and wharves of plants producing hundreds of products and by-products of oil, natural gas and other minerals. Each year there is a substantial increase in the numberand activities of these great industries, attracted to the area by the continuing availability of deepwater sites, splendid rail and highwayconnections, and unlimited and lowcost supplies of electric power, water and oil and natural gas fuel, not to mention the wealth of other raw materials and minerals obtainable in vast quantities. In ad- dition to the great manufacturing facilities, there are now more than 25,000 lineal feet of privately-owned wharves along the channel, capable of berthing more than eighty ships and barges. The following is a brief summaryof these plants and facilities, beginning at the Turning Basin and progressing downstream:

HumbleOil & Refining Co. Handling fuel and bunker oil-- Houston Marine Service, Inc. Boat basin and marine re- using Navigation District wharves with connections at No. 1 to pair yard for care of yachts, work boats, and pleasure boats, 4 and Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company (Long Reach) Docks located on Brays Bayou. with connections at No. 1-8, inclusive. Diesel fuel available at Bludworth Shipyard. Marine ways, shipbuilding and boat Wharf No. 3 only. Supplying vessels, railroads and indus- repair yard, salvaging services, located on Brays Bayou. tries. Platzer Boat Works. Shipbuilding and marine repairs, lo- Turning Basin Compress, operated by Southern Compress cated on Brady Island and Brays Bayou. & Warehouse Company. One high density compress, storage, Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Shell and sand unloading plant classing and shipping. in old channel, Harrisburg. HumbleOil & Refining Co. Eighty-five acre tank farm and Harrisburg Machine Co. All kinds of ship and machine specialty manufacturing plant. Two bunker lines, one for repairs, located on Old Channel of Buffalo Bayou in Harris- bunker C fuel oil and one for Diesel fuel, with connections on burg. Wharves Nos. 10 to 15, inclusive, for bunkering ships while dis- charging or receiving cargo. Located on north bank of Channel. Harbor Transport Company. Ship bunkering facilities. Located on Old Channel of Buffalo Bayou, Harrisburg. Port City Compress & Warehouse Co., owned by Atkinson & Company, located three-quarters of a mile northeast of Consolidated Chemical Industries, Inc. Large chemical Turning Basin on tracks of the Houston Belt & Terminal and plant manufacturing fertilizers, sulphuric acid, muriatic acid, Southern Pacific Railway. bone charcoal, other bone products. Barge wharf, located on old channel of Buffalo Bayou. Patrick Shipside Warehouse. Receiving commodities for Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. Barge wharf. Pipe lines warehousing, shipping and distribution. Facilities adjacent to Navigation District Wharf 4. to Manchester wharves. Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. Gasoline storage and Pacific Molasses Co., Ltd. Receiving shipload cargoes of marine warehouse. Barge and ship wharves. Facilities leased molasses for distribution throughout the Southwest. Pipeline from Magnolia Petroleum Company. over Navigation District Wharf No. 1. Lone Star Cement Corporation. Large plant manufactur- Rothermel Bros. Drumming of petroleum products. (Use ing high grade Portland and oil well cement from oyster shell Navigation District Wharf No. 1). and clay. Capacity 2,000,000 barrels per year, operating two Parker Bros. & Co., Inc., Wharf Site No. 17, sand and kilns. Barge wharf. shell unloading rig, north side Channel. Arrow Mills, Inc. (Formerly Houston Milling Co., Inc.) Armour Fertilizer Works, Manufacture of commercial fer- Flour mill, feed mill and grain elevator, 2,000,000 bushels tilizer. Shipments of phosphate rock received by vessels. Sul- capacity. Carrier "house to Manchester Public Wharf, loading phur received by carload from Texas mines. capacity 20,000 bushels per hour. Pneumatic system to take grain from ship to elevator. Houston Wharf Co. (Long Reach Docks), concrete wharf 3,428 feet long, marginal tracks, berthing space for eight Southwestern Sugar & Molasses Co. Receiving shipload steamers. Cargo of all kinds handled by this Company. (Owned cargoes of molasses for distribution throughout the Southwest. and operated by Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co.) Pipeline over Navigation District Manchester Wharf. Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Long Reach Plant), two Phillips Petroleum Company. Marketing. (Using Channel high density cotton compresses, concrete warehouses, storage Fuel wharf.) for 325,000 bales of cotton. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co. Petroleum products distribution Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Fifth Ward Plant), two station. (Use Channel Fuel wharf.) high density cotton compresses, and warehouses with capacity Continental Oil Company.Gasoline terminal storage tanks. of 375,000 bales of cotton. Small craft and barge wharf. Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Clinton Plant), high den- Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Terminal and sity cotton compresses, and warehouses with capacity of 100,- warehouse. 000 bales of cotton. Southern Pacific Lines. Steamship terminal at Clinton. Alexander Spruut & Son, Inc., (Warehouse Division). First unit berths three vessels. Slip 850 feet. Berth space for two steamers, two story brick and concrete Port Houston Iron Works. Drydock and complete ship re- warehouses. Two high density compresses and warehouses with pairs. Berths available for vessels undergoing repairs. capacity of 150,000 bales of cotton. Ideal Cement Co. Gulf Portland Division. Manufacturers Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Terminal Plant), two high of Portland cement and oil well cement. density cotton compresses, large brick and concrete ware- Mayo Shell Corp. Poultry feed grinding plant. Road ma- houses, capacity 100,000 bales of cotton. terials. Phosphate rock grinding plant. W. D. Haden Co. Marine Department and Machine Shop, Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc., Pile wharf and tank mouth of Brays Bayou. storage. Pipe lines to refinery. HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER, 1950 Manchester Terminal Corporation. Concrete wharves and General American Tank Storage Terminals. Petroleum and two-story concrete transit sheds; berths for four ships; gen- vegetable oil terminal tank farm. eral cargoes handled. Two high density compresses; two-story Maritime Oil CompanyRefinery. Topping plant. Uses Gen- concrete storage warehouses, capacity 250,00.0 bales of cotton. eral American wharf. Capacity 5,000 barrels per day. Large open area for outside storage. ChampionPaper & Fibre Co. Largest book paper mill in W. D. Haden Co. Marine ways for barge and small craft the South. Produces stock for Time and Life as well as other repairs in Simms Bayou near Navigation District Railroad coated stock. Pulp mill finishing plant, wharves, etc. bridge. The Texas Co. Slip with berths for three vessels. 1400 foot W. D. Haden Co. Shell unloading rig and side tracks in wharves. Simms Bayou near Navigation District Railroad bridge. Crown Central Petroleum Corporation. Oil refining and Coastal Oil & Transport Co. (Leased to Humble Oil shipping by vessel. Wharf 150 feet. Refining Co.) Storage and shipments of gasoline. Ship wharf. Phillips Petroleum Co. Gasoline exporting terminal. Gulf Oil Corporation. Terminal. Wharf 590 feet long. Sinclair Refining Co. Refiners and shippers of crude and Phillips Chemical Co. Produces ammoniumsulphate, etc. refined oils. Wharf 1,400 feet long, pipe line connections to Phillips Terminal Co. Bulk cargo terminal. various fields in the Mid-Continent area. Horton & Horton. Slip, wharves, shell unloading rig, ma- Houston Lighting & Power Co. Deepwater Steam-Electric rine ways, and repair yard, located on Cotton Patch Bayou. Station, 160,000 k.w. capacity, total capacity 320,000 k.w. in- Mathieson Chemical Corporation. Two docks--143 feet and cluding all plants. High tension power lines extending along 153 feet in length. Bulk cargo dock. Produces agricultural each side of channel provide ample power for city and indus- chemicals, etc. trial use. Barge wharf. American Republics Corporation. Tank farm and storage. Shipment of petroleum products. Oil wharf 150 feet. Barge wharf 40 feet. Sheffield Steel Corporation. Blast furnace, coke ovens, basic open hearth furnaces, blooming mill, structural mill, merchant and rod mills, wire products, etc. Nyotex Chemicals, Inc. Plant for making lime from oyster shell; plant for producing anhydrous aluminum chloride; plant for pro- ducing anhydrous hydrofluoric acid; all located on Green’s Bayou. W. D. Haden Co. Shell retail delivery plant, located on Green’s Bayou. Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Barge repair and construction yard, ma- rine ways. Located on Green’s Bayou. Green’s Bayou Marine Service Company. Boat, tug and barge con- struction and repairs. Two marine railways. Located on Green’s Bayou. Todd Shipyard. Complete dry- docking, repair and shipbuilding facilities, 14,000 and 4,000 ton floating drydocks. Ample wharves and building ways. Capable of han- dling any ship navigating the Houston Ship Channel. Located on the Houston Ship Channel at the mouth of Green’s Bayou. Diamond Alkali Co. Producers of liquid chlorine gas and caustic soda. Plant and office on Houston Ship Channel. Rohm & Haas Company. Manu- facturers of plastics, insecticides, fungicides, coating resins, plywood adhesives and chemicals for the leather, textile and rubber indus- tries. Plant and offices on Ship Channel. Schmidt Barge Yard. Green’s Bayou. Tug and barge building plant, also repairs. San Jacinto Ordnance Depot. Storage depot and terminal facil- ities. Shell Oil Co., Inc., and Shell Chemical Corporation. Large re- finery and tank farms. Slip with four berths. Petroleum and chem- ical products, loading and unload- ing facilities. San Jacinto Battleground Park. Memorial to the heroes of Sam Houston’s Army of Texas. The top of the San Jacinto monu- The LAYNE-TEXAS CO. Ltd. ment towers 570 feet high. The Battleship TEXASis permanently berthed in slip on the waterfront. Channel Shipyard, Lynchhurg. HOUSTON - EL CAMPO " DALLAS Boat building and repairs. 500-ton marine ways.

64 HOUSTONPORT BOOKFOR OCTOBER,1950 Gulf Refining Company(Houston Pipe Line Department), Peden Iron & Steel Co. Sales and warehouse. Lynchburg. Oil storage. Shipment by vessel and pipe line. The General Warehouse Company. Wharf 200 feet. Houston Central Warehouse & Cold Storage Co. Humble Oil & Refining Co. America’s largest refinery, at Baytown. Refining and shipment of crude and refined oil prod- Texas Packing Company. Meats. ucts. Three tanker docks--two berths each--one dock 600 feet Houston Terminal Warehouse & Cold Storage Co. and two docks 450 feet. Fore’ barge wharves, one 250 feet, and three 60 feet. Merchants & Manufacturers Building Corporation. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Grasselli Chemicals De- Buffalo Warehouse Company. Warehousing and distrib- partment). Chemical plant, located on Brinson Point about one- ution facilities. fourth mile west of the main Houston Ship Channel. John Young Co., Inc. Shell. Located at foot of Fannin Humble Oil & Refining Ca. Barge terminal on Barbour Street on Buffalo Bayou. Channel. City Wharves. Standard Oil Co. of Texas. Salt DomeCorporation. Barge B. A. Reisner & Son. Structural steel. terminal on Barbour Channel. NATURALGAS. The channel industrial area is served on Cliff’s Yacht Basin. Boat sales, storage and repairs. each side of the waterway by natural gas piped from the fields by the United Gas, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, Gas Houston has over 100 producing oil fields within a radius Division of Humble Oil & Refining Co. and Houston Industrial of 100 miles, and pipe lines extend to all major coastal and Gas Company,whose mains are available to all industries. mid-continental oil and gas fields. Many of the major and independent companies maintain their principal of- fices at Houston.

Upper Channel Industrial Development In addition to the industries es- tablished along the main channel there are a number located upon the light draft channel between the harbor and the center of the city and having their own wharves and cargo han- ooo there wasno escape dling facilities. Amongthem the fol- lowing are noted: Chas. C. Smith & Co. Barge and Towing Co. fromsummer heat Ole Peterson & Son. Barge dock and mooring facility. Rememberthe old palmetto fan in the National Supply Company. Steel church pew?Or the cardboard fan with an bulkhead wharf for handling pipe, steel, etc. ad printed on the back?The fans fluttered Republic Supply Company. Pipe furiously, but there was no escape from yard and warehouse. summerheat. Continental Supply Company. Pipe yard. Now you can have year-round air con- Houston Barge Terminal. Barge terminal and warehouse. ditionin g-cool in the summer, warm in Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Shell the winter--with a single unit using unloading plant and builders’ sup- natural gas as fuel. Natural gas serves you plies. well, in summerand winter alike. Shellbuilder Co. Oyster shell poul- try feed. Every resident of the Gulf South benefits Trinity Portland Cement Division, General Portland Cement Company. in one way or another from the operations Producing cement from oyster shell. of the natural gas industry. The large sums Houston Packing Company. Meat invested by the natural gas industry in this packers. area make your job more secure and your Pritehard Rice Milling Co. Federal Steel Product,s Corpora- living conditions better. These companies tion. Steel castings. are splendid examplesof the way privately Houston Shell & Concrete Co. owned and privately managedenterprises Ready mixed concrete, shell, sand and gravel. contribute to the welfare of the communi- ties they serve. i’ Zero Ice Plant. Houston Lighting & Power Com- pany. Gable Street plant, 60,000 k.w. capacity. UNITEDGAS United Gas. Distribution plant fa- cilities. SERVING THE Horton & Horton. Sand, shell, gravel, ready-mixed concrete pro- ducers.

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INDEX TO THE ECONOMIESMULTIPLYI ADVERTISEMENTS

A Ada Oil Company ...... 2 Anderson, Clayton ¯ Co ...... 17 Arrow Mills, Inc ...... 67 Atlantic, Gulf 6, Pacific Company ...... 4 B Bay-Houston Towing Company ...... 6 Biehl ~, Company ...... 2 Bludworth Shipyard, Inc ...... 16 Burlington Lines ...... 11 C Champion Paper & Fibre Company, The ..... 14 Ciaccia, Maurice Grocery ...... 56 Coyle Lines ...... 6 Cross ¯ Company, Inc ...... 16 Crown Central Petroleum Corporation ...... 14 Crown Marine Laundry ...... 60 E Esperson Estate ...... 16 F Fowler & McVitie ...... 4 G General Amerlc, an Tank Storage Terminals ...... 9 General Stevedo*es, Inc ...... 4 Grigar’s Marine Supplies ...... 56 Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co ...... 19 Gulf Oil Corporation ...... 12 Gulf Shipping Lines ...... Back Cover H Harrisburg Machine Company, Inc ...... 8 Houston Foundry & Machine Co ...... 18 Houston Industrial Gas Co ...... 18 Houston Lighting and Power Co ...... 1 Houston Pilots ...... 8 Houston Pipe Line Company ...... 20 Humble Oil & Refining Company ...... 61 I Intracoastal Towing & Transportation Company 12 L Layne-Texas Co., Ltd., The ...... 64 Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc ...... 67 Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc ...... Cover 2 M Manchester Terminal Corporation ...... 67 Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation ...... 6 Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines ...... 15 STEEL JOISTS Missouri Pacific Lines ...... 7 Economical, speedy and simple to N National Bank of Commerce ...... 62 install, rigid- these are descriptive Newtex Steamship Corporation ...... 10 terms you’ll find in the comments of Norris, W. H., Lumber Company ...... 53 architects and builders everywhere who P Patrick Transfer & Storage Company ...... 10 use Sheffield Steel Joists. Peden Iron & Steel Co ...... 10

In multiple story buildings, the savings R Rice, Thomas & Company, Inc ...... 8 multiply story by story. Here, their Rock Island Lines ...... 13 greater strength per pound of dead S load makes possible relatively lighter San Jacinto Inn ...... Cover 3 Santa Fe System Lines ...... 3 foundation and frame design. Sheffield Steel Corporation ...... 68 Shilstone Testing Laboratory, Inc ...... 2 R. W. Smith & Co ...... 53 Carbon and Alloy Steel Southern Compress & Warehouse Co ...... 60 Southern Pacitic Lines ...... 21 Ingots, Blooms, Billets, Plates, States Marine Corporation ...... 12 Sheets, Hot Rolled Bars, Stedman Company, The ...... 18 Steel Joists, Structural Strachan Shipping Company ...... 14 Shapes, Reinforcing Bars, T Welded Wire Mesh, Wire Products, Wire Rods, Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc ...... 16 Fence, Spring Wire, Todd Shipyards Corporation ...... 18 Nails, Rivets, U Grinding Media, Forgings, United Gas ...... 65 DIS’~’RtCT SALESOFFICES: Oklahoma City. Okla.: Chica~o. II1.; Track Spikes, St. Leuis. Mo.: Omaha.Nebr.: Wichita. Kans.; Denver. Colo.: Bolt and Nut Products Des Moines, la.: Dallas. Tex.; San Antonio. Tex.: £1 Paso. Tex.; W Lubbock,Tex.; NewOrleans, La.; Shreveport, La. Warren Company, Inc., The ...... 53 Waterman Steamship Corporation ...... 5

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SAN JACINTO MEMORIAL A visit to Houston without a visit to San Jacinto Battlegrounds is a visit incomplete, and a visit to the Battlegrounds without din- ner at San Jacinto Inn is only half a visit. The guest register at San Ja- cinto Inn, during the past 25 years, best speaks for its popu- larity. To reach this beautiful public park, drive east on Preston Ave- nue to Harrisburg Boulevard, thence to La Porte Road; follow La Porte Road, then on to the famous San Jacinto Battlegrounds and Inn. Located at the historical San Jacinto Battlegrounds, where the San Jacinto Monument, tallest in America, is one sight you will not want to miss . . . forty minutes from Houston. T/.o/.~ THEDINNERS THAT MADE SAN JACINTO FAMOUS We are closed Mondays except for WINTER DINNER Special Parties Three Dollars Celery Shrimp Cocktail Open 6:00 P.M. Oysters on the Half Shell Tuesday Oyster Brochette through Saturday Tenderloin of Trout or Redfish Fried Chicken Potatoes Hot Biscuits and Jam Drinks Dessert Open 1:00 P.M. Sunday SUMMERDINNER Three Dollars * Celery Please Make Your Shrimp Cocktail Iced Crabs Baked Crabs Reservations Early Tenderloin of Trout or Redfish Phone WAyside 118l Fried Chicken Potatoes Hot Biscuits and Preserves ~- Drinks Dessert SpeciallyEquipped to ServeBanquets to AnyNumbev

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