Arrow Mills Expands Facilities 26 May, 1948 Number 1 Page 3… · ~er~icin9 3Z Countrie~ Arrow Mills Expands Facilities Nearly a half million dollars has been spent recently by Arrow

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Arrow Mills Expands

FacilitiesNearly a half million dollars has been spent recently by Arrow

Mills, Inc., to improve its flour mill, grain processing plant, andelevator on ~he Houston Ship Channel.

Besides improving its facilities, Arrow Mills, one of Port Hous-ton’s busy industries and large exporters, has also acquired newstorage facilities at various points in Texas.

The mill serves 32 countries with regular shipments of flour,cornmeal, feeds, and whole grain. Cargo after cargo of wheat andprocessed grain products leave each month from the plant to bringlife-giving nourishment to the peoples and the livestock of the WestIndies, South America, and Europe. Glistening, rich grain movesthrough the humming conveyor system into the holds of freightersbound for far away ports.

In charge of the Arrow Mills operation are vice-presidents andco-managers, Finis E. Cowan and R. Tullis Corer. Mr. Cowan, whoin 1946 assumed his present position, has a wealth of experience inthe merchandising of flour and mill products to both domestic andexport trade. For many years he was associated with mills in NorthTexas in managerial capacities, particularly Morten Milling Com-pany, Dallas, and Burrus Mill & Elevator Company, Fort Worth.

Mr. Corer, who has been similarly associated with milling andgrain interests, has spent many years in this field in both Fort Worthand Dallas. Before coming to Arrow Mills, Mr. Corer was managerof the Continental Grain Company, Fort Worth, and sales managerof J. C. Crouch Grain Company, Dallas. An official in the TexasGrain and Feed Dealers Association, he is also active in affairs of theNational Grain and Feed Dealers Association and the PanhandleGrain Dealers Association.

In charge of the mills’ foreign trade activities is Albert Gochi-coa, export manager. A naturalized American, Mr. Gochicoa is anative of Mexico. He prepared himself for his present position by

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extensive schooling in Mexico, followed by a sojourn in many of thecentral and South American countries. His unusual backgroundgives him the knowledge and common touch necessary to deal withthe Latin American trade. Mr. Gochicoa came with Arrow Mills in1936, when it was operated by Houston Milling Company, andopened the mill’s export trade division. The development of theforeign markets has required semi-annual trips to the West Indiesand to Caribbean Sea ports of South America, plus yearly trips toCentral America and to the Pacific Coast of South America goingas far below the equator as Lima, Peru. Through his efforts, a net-work of sales agents has been established in principal seaports of theCentral America, the Northern area of South America, the WestIndies, the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa.

Mr. Gochicoa relates that many changes in the export businessand in the mode of handling his own transportation problems havecome since the opening of the export department in 1936. Forinstance, Mr. Gochicoa has discovered that the commercial airlineis a great time saver for his own personal travel. Mr. Gochicoa madehis first long trip over the Gulf waters by plane about eight yearsago. Since then he does all of his traveling by plane instead of bysteamship and saves many weeks each year by doing so. As an ex-ample, a voyage to Puerto Rico from Houston by steamship used torequire 11 days. Now Mr. Gochicoa can have dinner in Houston,board an airplane at 7:30 p. m. and at 10:30 a. m. the next morningdisembark at the airport in Puerto Rico.

Because of the various languages and different buying habitsfound throughout the foreign market, Arrow Mills, which hasestablished the brand of American Maid Flour here in the Southwest,has found it necessary to use various brand names for various gradesof flour used in different countries. For all Spanish-speaking coun-tries, the export flour is sold under three brands. The high strengthflour is Gran Coraza; medium strength: Grano de Oro; the lowergrade: Fortaleza. Translated, these mean in same order: Grand Ar-mor, Golden Grain, and Fortress. Trade names in the French-speak-ing countries are Etoile d’Or (Golden Star), Tete Indienne (Indian

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Sheffield Is One of Texas"

Largest IndustriesSprawling plant of the Sheffield Steel Corporation on Houston’s

ship channel, now operating at full capacity, is one of the outstand-ing examples of post-war industrial development in Texas.

Conceived as a peacetime industry to supply a portion of thetremendous demand for steel in Texas, the original plant, consistingof three open-hearth furnaces and rolling mills, was completedjust in time to participate in the war demand.

During the war, the original three-furnace plant was expandedby the addition of two open-hearth furnaces, coke ovens, a blastfurnace, and additional rolling mill facilities.

But this growth, as rapid as it was, did not end with the war.Today, after two and a half years of peacetime operation, the

plant is bigger and busier than ever.A sixth open hearth has been placed in operation. The govern-

ment-owned blast furnace is back in full production. The metalit pours into the open hearths to supplement scrap iron, basic rawmaterial in the Sheffield steel making process, has increased theplant’s output materially. Today the peace-time operation producessteel at double the rate originally contemplated.

Sheffield steel producing for peace is now one of the state’slargest industries, employing more than 3,500 persons. Presentproduction is well in excess of its wartime peak.

Ralph L. Gray, president of Sheffield Steel Corporation; J. C.Shepherd, executive vice-president, and other key executives empha-size constantly the fact that Sheffield never was a "war baby."

As far back as 1936, Sheffield officials, then operating the onlysteel mill in the Southwest at Kansas City, began investigatingthe possibilities of establishing a major steel industry on the Hous-ton ship channel.

Availability of great quantities of scrap in the area, excellenttransportation facdities and a tremendous potential demand for itsproducts were chief factors in arousing theirinterest in the project.

Research was carried on until 1938 anda few years later construction began.

The original plant, completed in 1942,consisted of three open hearths and rollingmill facilities. War needs led to rapid expan-sion. Defense Plant Corporation financed addi-tion of two additional open hearths, a bloom-ing mill and rolling mill facilities. Desiringmore production in the face of a shortage ofscrap, Defense Plant Corporation arranged forconstruction of a 700-ton blast furnace tomake use of East Texas and Mexican ores andOklahoma coal, to produce pig iron to augmentthe scrap iron charge in the open hearths.

Since the end of the war Sheffield haspurchased outright the government-ownedopen hearth furnaces, has acquired by long-term lease the government blooming mill andrelated facilities, and is now operating the gov-ernment-owned coke ovens and blast furnaceunder a short-term lease with provision forconversion into a long-term lease. Reconversionto peacetime operation is complete. Today thebusy plant on the 600-acre ship channel site isthe only fully integrated steel mill betweenthe Rocky Mountains and the MississippiRiver and between the Gulf of Mexico and theCanadian border. Sheffield, with plants atHouston, Kansas City, and Tulsa, is the only

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producer of open-hearth rolled steel products in the Southwest.To understand this is to understand the real economic signif-

icance of the Sheffield plant in Houston. Although Sheffield, asubsidiary of American Rolling Mills, produces only 1 per cent of thenation’s steel output in its three plants, and the Houston plantproduces roughly but one-half of 1 per cent of the nation’s total,the economic importance of this source of supply within the areawhere it is consumed can not be overestimated.

Adding economic importance to the Sheffield operation fromthe Texas standpoint, is the fact that the Houston Sheffield mill forthe first time in the state’s history is carrying on a completely in-tegrated operation, starting with Texas iron ore and producing atthe end of the manufacturing pro&ss in a single plant, such finishedsteel products as reinforcing rods, wire mesh and nails.

As Sheffield production swings into high gear and Houston-made steel is turned out in greater volume, more and more indus-tries, both large and small, will be drawn to the Gulf Coast area,Sheffield officials say.

Virtually the entire output of Sheffield’s Houston plant ismarketed in Texas and Louisiana.

This steel has created many opportunities for establishing newpostwar industries or expanding existing ones.

Sheffield’s production is small, even in comparison with theneeds of the Southwest, but here again its importance is greaterthan its size.

Without this Sheffieki production, the region would be entirelydependent upon steel allocations made by distant plants whose offi-cials could not possibly be aware of the region’s needs or claims.Sheffield management, a part of the Southwest, is more keenly inter-ested in its development than the best intentioned executives ofdistant steel mills could possibly be.

Aerial view of the Sheffield Steel Corporation’s plant on the Houston Ship Channel.


Rapid Growth Shown in

Coffee IndustryBy R. E. ATHAPresident J. A. Folger & Company

(Editor’s Note: Thousands of tons of coffee from the finestplantations in South and Central America flow across the docks atthe Port of Houston yearly. And here to handle this leading importis a thriving and rapidly-expanding industry which employes morethan 1000 persons.

(In recognition of this growing industry, the Port Book willpublish ~ series of articles on Houston plants which import androast coffee for distribution throughout the nation. This issue carriesan article on the Folger Company. Subsequent editions will devotespace to other firms located in Houston.

(The Duncan Coffee Company, one of the largest coffee im-porters which uses the Port of Houston almost exclusively, has beenresponsible for bringing many steamship lines to Houston. Its facili-ties include two large plants in Houston and one in Corpus Christi.

(Maxwell House, which has a roasting plant here and last yearexpanded its facilities, also imports sizeable quantities of coffeethrough the port.

(During the year, Monarch Coffee and Tea will add a roasterto its warehouse and distribution facilities.

(Standard Brands, which produces Chase and Sanborn coffee,maintains an office and warehouse in Houston.

(An increase in its imports through the Port of Houston is an-ticipated this fall by Sunset Coffee Company. Now established in alarger building, the company has a plant and a roaster in Houston.)

How would you like to start a business in direct competitionwith the housewife? In these days of competition between bran&--even between industries--you will still have to admit that when youcompete with America’s housewives, you’ve just about reached thepinnacle of tough competition. However, that is exactly what earlycoffee companies did. For in those days, housewives bought greencoffee, roasted it in home roasters, and ground it themselves.

Since 1850, the coffee industry has come a long way. It wascustomary for coffee concerns at that time to handle tea, spices, andextracts; however, most of our large companies today specialize inthe one product, coffee.

The thousand of bags of green (unroasted) coffee that comerolling into the plants of America’s coffee companies come from thechoice coffee producing plantations of Central and South America--areas which produce the world’s finest coffee.

And here, a word about how coffee is grown might be of in-terest. First, coffee is a tree that grows up to fifteen feet in height.During its life, it bears both white flowers and a red fruit whichresembles a small cherry in size. The seed of this fruit is known asthe "coffee bean" and it is the oils within this bean that give coffeeits flavor.

Coffee, as you see it on the market today, is a "blend." Thereare many different kinds and grades of coffee that come from manylands. The predominant characteristics of these various coffees areskillfully blended by experts, thus giving a "taste" that is charac-teristic of a particular blend of coffee.

Why "Vacuum Pack" Coffee?

Science has made possible great technical advances in coffeeprocessing. However, they are too numerous to mention here. Oneof the most important of these resulted in the "Vacuum packing"of coffee--a process designed to give the consumer the freshest,highest grade coffee on the market. As was mentioned before, the


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coffee "flavor" comes from the oils that are in the granulated cof-fee. These oils are delicate and will become rancid when exposed tothe air for any length of time.

The "vacuum packing" of coffee takes the air out of the con-tainer and thus keeps the coffee fresher and richer in flavor becausethe oils are protected from the "flavor-robbing" effect of the air.It is important to offer coffee to the consumer at the peak of itsflavor. Scientific facts prove that this can only be done through"vacuum packing." At Folger, within thirty minutes after theroasted bean has been ground, it is safely "vacuum packed" andsealed from the air.

Birth of Folger’sWhen Jim Folger started his own competition against the

housewife in 1850, he believed zhat if he could standardize the

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roasting of a "quality," coffee and give it a name that could be made ~:synonymous with "high grade coffee" in the public mind, his com ......pany would be a success. That idea, and that idea alone, has beenthe motivating factor in Folger operation, expansion, and progress.Now Folger has modern plants in San Francisco, Kansas City, andHouston -with coffee processing equipment that is the latest intechnical development. A far cry from the horse and buggy dayswhen, for example, the roasters were not power driven, but operatedby windmills.

San Francisco Earthquake Forced Decision toEstablish Plant in the Middle West

About the turn of the century, Folger’s coffee first crossed theRockies and was introduced in the Middle West. Folger made rapidadvancement in the new area starting in Texas and expanding toOklahoma and then throughout all the states from the Gulf ofMexico to the Canadian Border.

Surprisingly enough, the San Francisco earthquake and fire hadmuch to do with establishing a complete organization, including aroasting and packing plant east of the Rocky Mountains. Duringthe earthquake, most of the rail facilities were utilized in takingbuilding materials to the West Coast. The congestion on the rail-roads made it practically impossible for coffee and other commodi-ties to be shipped from the West Coast to the East.

With orders taking from six to eight weeks to arrive, it wasdecided to open another plant in Kansas City to serve the Middle-western area. From the start, however, the productive capacity ofthis plant fought a losing battle to keep up with consumer demand.This finally necessitated moving the plant to another and largersite. Expansion of the Folger trade area and a steady increase in percapita consumer sales resulted in the construction of an additionalplant in Houston in 1938. During the short space of 10 years since

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its construction, it has been necessary to expand it three times--each time doubling the capacity. It stands today as one of the mostmodern coffee plants in the United States.

Jim Folger’s idea paid off--the competition offered by thehousewives to the coffee business is, quite obviously a thing of manyyears past. We in the coffee industry now number our former"competitors" as the satisfied customers and consumers by themillions.

Houston Plant of J. A. Folger & Co.


International HoustonBy R. P. SANGUILYLocal Manager, Strachan Shipping Company

Since cessation of hostilitits in 1945 the port of Houston hasnot only regained most of its pre-war foreign trade routes, but alsomany new ones, and likewise commodities never before handled arenow every day sights on the docks at the various modern, well-equipped terminals.

The Intra-Coastal Canal teeming with deeply laden barges,railroads with long lines of cars loaded with export-import cargo,air freighters, motor trucks, and last but by far not least the steam-ship lines have played no small part in making Houston one of themajor seaports of the world, although 58 ½ miles inland from deep-sea Gulf of Mexico and served by a man-made Channel.

Where once only a handful of Trans-Atlantic-Pacific Linestouched this Buffalo Bayou port, now myriads of ships (freighter-passenger-tanker) swarm up and down the Channel. Alphabeticallyit could be said that they represent international contact from Ato Z (Argentina to Zanzibar), and the flags of all recognizednations can be seen flying from the stern of vessels moored at theHouston wharves, with much activity aboard and ashore, workingnight and day, Sunday and Holiday.

OUTWARD go full cargoes of cotton to clothe the needy,grain and other foodstuff to feed the hungry, plus chemicals, fertil-izers, etc., to revive the bloody war-torn foreign farmlands andcement, lumber, machinery, petroleum products, steel, etc., to re-build the bomb devastated cities, towns and villages of the world,and also their industries.

INWARD comes coffee from Brazil, Colombia and other LatinAmerican countries. Pineapples and sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico,Hawaii, and the Philippines; wool from Australia-New Zealand;phosphate rock from the Netherlands West Indies; kapok, rubber,spices, tea and tin ore from the East Indies, and also newsprint paperfrom Newfoundland.

Adding greatly to this already huge traffic will be fulfillmentof the lvlarshall Plan (ERP), which has already shown potentialpower by its effect on the Italian elections in April, and futurepreservation of Western Union in Europe. Geographically, Houstonwill be the natural gateway for many of these shipments to besupplied by the Agricultural-Industrial Mid-West and Southwest.

The International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC,) hasgiven Houston a flying start with its initial VBEC program underMr. Nelson Rockefeller, as during May substantial tonnage ofpalletized cases of canned goods moved from this port to Venezuelaand much more will follow in the months to come via the varioussteamship lines serving our Caribbean-rim neighbors. Success of theVenezuelan venture should lead to other BEC movements throughPort Houston--therefore it obviously behooves our transportationfraternity, as well as all concerned, to make the best of this goldenopportunity, simultaneously, cultivating permanent Western Hemi-sphere commerce, and preserving our trade with the other conti-nents.

TOWARD THAT GREATER INTERNATIONAL GOALWE MAY WELL PLEDGE OUR UNTIRING EFFORTS.

PORT COMMISSION CONVERTSCUTTER TO YACHT

Work toward converting an 83-foot coast guard cutter, re-cently purchased by the Houston port commission, into a 60-pas-senger capacity yacht is now under way.

The vessel will be used to carry distinguished visitors and tradegroups on trips down the Houston Ship Channel. It will also be


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used to show customers and prospective investors development~along the waterfront.

The remodeled ship will have Diesel power, a deck-house, andother passenger accommodations. Plans were drawn by A. Mason,New York naval and marine architect.

NEW BARGES TO SERVEPORT HOUSTON

Butcher-Arthur, Inc., has placed into operation between Hous-ton, other Gulf ports, and St. Louis six of 28 new barges being builtunder a $4,000,000 expansion program.

The company expects these new additions to its fleet to increaseits Gulf Coast-St. Louis tonnage to approximately 7,000,000 tonsannually.

In ad&tion, Butcher-Arthur also has placed into servi:e oneof six new 1600-horsepower river-type towboats to be constructedunder the program. The sixth one will be named "Sam Houston"and will be christened in Houston.

The new barges will have a 2500-ton capacity. Twenty-two

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of them will be used for the transportation of liquid petroleum andliquid chemicals and six for dry bulk cargo.

When the barges are completed, Butcher-Arthur’s fleet will beincreased to 60. The company also has 13 tugboats, and is nowasking bids on three more 900-horsepower tugboats.

GRAIN ELEVATOR HAS BESTYEAR IN HISTORY

The Houston Navigation District’s public grain elevator endedits fiscal year May 31 with the best record in its history, W. L.Fellrath, superintendent, announced.

Grain receipts from June 1, 1947, through May 18, 1948,totaled 35,288,522 bushels, an increase of 13,801,917 bushels or 64per cent over the corresponding period for the previous year. Ship-ments amounted to 34,829,537 bushels, a gain of 13,513,265bushels or 63 per cent over the year before.

Ninety-nine ships and 1516 cars were loaded in bulk, besides261,333 bushels which were sacked for South America.

In addition, Mr. Fellrath estimated that about 1,500,000bushels would be shipped and received between May 19 and May 31.

Grain receipts for the first four and one-half months of the1948 calendar year totaled 11,912,254 bushels as compared to9,527,135 bushels for the same period last year, while shipmentsreached 13,209,949 bushels as compared to 10,246,502 bushels forthe first quarter of 1947.

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pleted within two years. Ground-breaking for the second tunnelat Spillman Island is scheduled in the near future.

Besides the new wharves, the navigation district’s $9,000,000expansion program calls for tht remodeling of the district’s Man-chester docks, the addition of such new equipment, as a bulk hand-ling plant and heavy lifts, and the purchase of two new fireboats.

Completion of the widening and deepening projects will meanthat the largest ocean-going vessels afloat will be able to navigatethe waterway and that less time will be required by ships in movingfrom deep sea to the Turning Basin.

Morgan’s Point, on the Ship Channel, will be widened from400 to 600 feet. Traffic control will be installed here with the erec-tion of a holding wharf and communication facilities, includingradar.

The navigation district already has completed the remodelingof two other wharves, Docks No. 1 and 2. A coastwise service willbe transferred here, leaving the larger docks which this service hasbeen using open for foreign cargo.

Bunker fuels available at shipside at these points

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Facilities for servicing shallow draft equipment with Humble-EssoMarine products are located at all important points

from Orange to Brownsville

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.Houston, Texas

Cotton in the warehouse at Manchester Terminal awaiting shipmentthrough Port Houston, a world-leading cotton port.


Port’s 1947 Commerce Hits

New All-Time High

Busy Port Houston established a new high in total commercehandled during 1947, according to preliminary and unofficial statis-tics of the Harris County-Houston Navigation District.

The amount of cargo which passed over the port’s docks duringthe year reached 34,143,777 tons and was valued at $1,087,095,450.

The total of Port Houston’s 1947 tonnage represents an in-crease of 2,306,324 tons, or 7.2 per cent, over the previous recordof 31,837,453 tons handled in 1946.

Whether this increase will give Houston a higher rankingamong other ports of the nation will not be determined until theUnited States Army Engineers release statistics on official tonnageslater in the year.

At present, Houston stands in fourth place, on the basis of1946 statistics, the latest available from the army engineers. Thesestatistics showed less than 1,000,000 tons of cargo separating Hous-ton from Philadelphia and Baltimore, the second and third rankingports, respectively.

A breakdown of the 1947 total shows increases in four of thefive categories. Domestic receipts and shipments, local traffic andimports gained, while exports, as in other ports of the nation, de-clined.

During the year, domestic or coastwise and intercoastal receiptsamounted to 3,056,016 tons; domestic shipments, 20,673,625 ; localtraffic, 5,067,582; imports, 277,490; and exports, 5,069,064.

Natural rubber from the Netherlands East Indies and Malay states beingdischarged at the Port of Houston.

The 1946 figures for these categories were domestic receipts,2,763,026 tons; domestic shipments, 16,831,599; local traffic,4,979,463; imports, 205,257; and exports, 7,058,108.

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the increasing volume of traffic on the waterway has clearly shownthe necessity of a reasonable traffic regulation, particularly in timesof storm and periods of low visibility, and the Board has had underconsideration for several years the installation of a ship holdingstation at Morgan Point, thoroughly equipped to make mooringand unmooring of vessels economical and safe so that at times ofbad and low visibility certain ships might be held while others weredispatched, thereby eliminating hazards and promoting operationsat such times, and particularly at night. The plans include radarstations at the Turning Basin and at Morgan Point which will givethe dispatcher full and complete information on vessel locationsand movements on the ship channel.

For seventeen years the Board has recognized the hazards of theslow-downs offered by three public ferries over the ship channel,and finally reached the conclusion that it would contribute$1,250,000.00 for the construction of two tunnels in order thatnavigation hazards would be removed and vessels’ time of traversingthe ship channel would be reduced. These tunnels are now definitelyunder process of being constructed. A very cooperative agreementhas been worked out with the State Highway Commission, theCounty, and the Navigation District under which the HighwayCommission is preparing to construct a tunnel at Spillmans Islandand the County has let a contract for the construction of a tunnelat Pasadena, and the Navigation District’s contribution was amaterial factor in bringing these two projects to the present stateof construction. They will be toll free and will make a definitecontribution to safety of vessel operation on the ship channel andwill enhance values all along the ship channel by offering bettercommunication between the north and south sides of the channelfor industry, labor, and general communication.

The Board’s ownership of waterfrontag, actually on theHouston Ship Channel is approximately 4 percent of the linearfootage abutting on the navigable waterway, and under the Board’sfixed Tariff policy encouragement is given to the investment ofprivate capital.

The Board’s policy is to own and operate on a Tariff basis,equal to all alike, a well designed terminal property which isavailable for all of the commodities moving to and from theSouthwest and on terms and conditions equal to all alike.

Effective July 1, 1945, the Board purchased all of the railroad,real estate, and terminal facilities which had been owned by theCity of Houston, and this gives the Board a complete public owner-ship of the abutting lands in and around the Turning Basin andfixes the transportation costs and practices which are so importantin the operation of a world port such as Houston has become.Switching charges, trucking charges, warehouses, and distributionpoints, and highway and road systems are all affected by the Turn-ing Basin and its place in the Navigation District as an economiccenter, and the development of Houston as an industrial center hasbeen along sound lines insofar as this development has been guidedby the policy of the Navigation and Canal Commissioners.

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must give due weight to the labor costs of the railroads as elementsof rate-making, has nothing to do with the fixing of wage ratesand the working rules of railroad employees. The separate boardsor commissions that are appointed by law or the Chief Executiveto handle disputes about wages and working rules for railroad em-ployees, take the position that those who must pay and bear trans-portation charges have no legal interest in the mediation and arbi-tration proceedings conducted by them. Therefore, the way the lawis now operating, one board or commisson expresses an opinionupon the merits and demerits of wage increases, and, another merelypasses along to the public the increased cost of railroad operations.

Railroad workers, from the humblest to the highest, have aretirement income plan and an unemployment compensation planthat are far better than the Social ~curity plan that applies to

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other workers. The railroad plan costs the workers much more thanthe regular Social Security plan; but, the public at large also mustcontribute heavily to the railroad plan in the form of exceedinglytfigh taxes levied against the railroad companies, all of which mustbe recouped through increased service charges.

Three of the railway operating unions (Engineers, Firemen andSwitchmen) are now threatening to strike, unless demands forgreatly increased wages are made effective promptly. The boardappointed by the President to determine the facts and make a report,recommended an increase of 15 ½-cents per hour in the wages ofthe complaining unons. Tht unions rejected the offer and the rail-roads accepted it.

Whatever increase is allowed will be followed as soon aspossible by further increases in transportation rates and charges.

Now that it is the affirmative policy of Congress to promotefair wages and worl~ing conditions for railroad worl~ers, and sincelittle, if any, restraint is laid upon the workers themselves or theirleaders, it is clear why we have little opportunity for stability inrate mal~ing. The guess of today becomes the error of tomorrow.

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Head) and Royal (Royal). Arrow Feeds, which are manufacturedfor livestock raisers and poultry raisers of the Southwest, are ex-ported under this same brand name.

A total of thirty-nine million bushels of wheat was handledlast year by the mill and shipped out of the Port of Houston. Thisrepresented enough wheat to bake over two and a half billion loavesof bread!

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WESTERN WOOD OFFERSNEW SERVICE

Western Wood Products, through its five subsidiaries and thefacilities of the Houston office, has inaugurated a new service to aidimporters and exporters here and abroad.

This Service includes the details of paper work, the obtainingof licenses, engineering and packaging design, customs clearance,the handling of letters of credit, the arrangement of usual andspecial financing, and the export crating and shipping to and froman); point in the world.

W. R. Flocks, president and general manager, pointed out thatsuch a service will eliminate troublesome details, since all serviceswill be combined in one central point. It will also mean a savingof time and money as well as resulting in expediting actual ship-ping, he added.

HOUSTON PO.~T BOOK FOR MAY, 1948

Houston Chamber of CommerceThe Houston Chamber of Commerce is a service organization.

Within the community it serves those who have joined togetherto work for the solution of their mutual business and communityproblems and opportunities. It also serves "those from outside thecommunity who seek information and service of a type that maylead to community development.OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

W. S. BELLOWS .................. PresidentHINES H. BAKER ............................ Vice-PresidentW. B. BATES ................................ Vice-PresidentH. O. CLARKE ............... Vice-PresidentCLAUD B. HAMILL ............... TreasurerJ. BARRY YORK ........... Secretary of the BoardL. S. ADAMS ............................. Member-at-LargeJ. H. RUSSELL ...... Member-at-LargeHARMON WHITTINGTON ......... Member-at-LargeW. N. BLANTON Executive Vice-President and General Manager

The following Departments render service and provide infor-marion within their specilized fields as indicated in this outline. Atall times they welcome inquiries from those desiring theirassistance.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTW. N. BLANTON, Executive Vice-President and General ManagerW. MARVIN HURLEY, Secretary and Assistant General Manager

With advice and counsel of the President and Executive Com-mittee, is in direct charge of the operations of the organization,including supervisory functions over personnel, finance, programand policies.

ACTIONMARY MIDKIFF, Editor and Manager

The official weekly publication of the Houston Chamber ofCommerce.

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTW. O. Cox, Manager LEONARD PATILLO, Assistant

Carries on a diversified program to improve agricultural con-ditions in the Gulf Coast area. Among major projects is theHouston Fat Stock Show and Livestock Exposition. Has aided inthe organization of the Houston Dairy Breeding and ProductionAssociation and the Houston Farm and Ranch Club. Cooperating inan area-wide drainage and soil conservation program. Also workswith county agents, home demonstration agents, and vocationalagricultural departments in the promotion of agricultural projects.

AVIATION DEPARTMENTCHARLES F. TUPPER, Manager

Promotes the expansion of international and domestic airpassenger and cargo services at Houston; fosters needed improve-ments in aviation facilities; encourages constructive activities re-lating to commercial, private, and military flying.

CIVIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTHOUSTON CRUMP, Manager

The focal point for Chamber of Commerce in behalf of Hous-ton’s civic and cultural progress. Within the department are com-mittees whose activities relate to education, civic improvement,public health, state and national affairs, and community propertytaxation.

CONVENTION AND TOURIST BUREAUT. A. SIEFERTH, Manager

Promotes the holding of conventions and conferences in Hous-ton, and assists the sponsoring organizations in making arrange-ments for their respective events. Information on hotels, guestranches and resorts is maintained for the benefit of tourists.

DOMESTIC TRADE DEPARTMENTHOWARD N. MARTIN, Manager

Developing the Houston manufacturers’ and wholesalers’ mar-ket. Specific activities are assembling and publishing the Buyers’Guide; assisting trade organizations in promoting trade shows;preparing a bulletin of special events in the territory; publishingmarket data on the area; and serving as a liaison between na-tional distributors seeking representation here and local firmsand individuals interested in this representation.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTGLENN R. BLACKBURN, Manager

Works in connection with the planning, financing and con-struction of highways, flood control facilities, and industrial watersupply. Fire prevention work is also a department assignment.


FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENTHARRY DE YBARRONDO, Manager

Develops export and import trade through the Port of Houstonand increases the participation of Houston firms, as well as thosein the trade area, in the national business field. Advises on foreigntrade problems and trade possibilities with special reference toLatin American. Provides information on customs, regulations,tariffs and port activities, Spanish translations, and the establish-ment of contacts between visitors from abroad and U. S. manu-facturers.

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTW. MARVIN HURLEY, Manager

The Industrial Department’s objective is to provide essentialservices to established industry, give encouragement and assistanceto the development of new industrial enterprises, and to fostermore favorable industrial conditions.

JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCEWALLACE M. DRISKELL, JR., Executive Secretar.y

An organization of young men learning civic consciousnessthrough constructive action; a distinct division of the Chamber ofCommerce, operating under the letter’s supervision. Its purposesare (1) development of the community, and (2) training individualmembers for business advancement and civic leadership.

MAGAZINE "HOUSTON"CHAS. E. GILBERT, JR., Editor and Manager

Official monthly publication of the Houston Chamber of Com-merce. Its prime objective is to present a resume of Houston’sprogress each month. Subscribers in all cities in the Southwest.

MEMBERSHIP DEPARTMENTJOHN S. WESTNEY, JR., Manager

Seeks to extend a personal invitation to every progressivecommercial, industrial and professional man and firm in Houstonto join in the building and development of this city through mem-bership in the Houston Chamber of Commerce. It works throughthe Roundup Club, made up of about 100 community leaders, whovoluntarily give their time to this activity.

MILITARY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTMAJOR ROLAND A. LAIRD, Manager

Cooperates in all matters having to do with local factors af-fecting military forces; maintains intimate contact between busi-ness interests of the city and the military interests; supports andencourages R.O.T.C. organizations in Houston.

OFFICE MANAGERT. W. ARCHER

In charge of general correspondence, information, and co-ordination of stenographic work of the organization.

PUBLICITY DEPARTMENTCONRAD H. COLLIER, Manager

Disseminates information and photographs concerning Houstonto newspapers, magazines, radio and other forms of informationchannels. Advises and assists in the preparation of publicity matterand advertising which has a bearing on Houston.

RESE.ARCH DEPARTMENTDR. F. A. BUECHEL, Manager

Engaged in the study of natural resources, the industries basedupon natural resources, and the development of index numbers formeasuring growth of industry and trade in the Houston area. Sur-veys for obtaining specific information concerning markets, popula-tion growth and distribution, and avariety of other subjects.Directories of all classes of Houston business firms are preparedand made available.

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTHAROLD L. MESSECAR, Manager

Maintains a library of basic statistical information on theHouston area, State of Texas, and the United States. A largequantity of the data is in printed or mimeographed form to fa-cilitate dissemination. A card index is being developed to indicatelocal sources of specialized information and statistics which are toocomprehensive to be maintained by this department. Principalsources of information in the library are surveys conducted by theChamber’s Research Department, government reports, and reportsfrom private research organizations.

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTE. E. DULLAHAN, Manager EARL W. GERLOFF, Assistat~t

Rate quotations. Readjustments of rate situations. Publicationof rate changes. Preparation of statistical information in defenseof rate adjustments. Analysis of transportation problems. Dis-semination of information on the car situation and any othertransportational subjects of interest to shippers.

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Houston Steamship ServicesFOREIGN SERVICES

The following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and various Foreign ports; Corrected as of May 15, 1948

Lines

Agwilines, Inc.Alaska Packers AssociationAlcoa Steamship Company

American Pioneer Line

American Range Lines, Inc.Argentine State Line

Armement Deppe, S. A.

Atlantic Overseas Corporation

Between Houston and

Various PortsVarious PortsVal"ious Ports

- -Brisb-anG SydneyI IVIel’oourne and Ade-laide-Australia

Various PortsSouth American PortsHavre and Dunkirk, France;

Antwerp and Ghent, Belgium

Houston Agent or Operator

Texas Transport & Terminal Co.,Inc. --Bloomfield Steamship Co.Bloomfield Steamship Co.

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal C0., Inc.

Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

Belgian Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Atwacoal Transportation Co. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Bank Line Far East, Australia, New Zealand Strachan Shipping CompanyBlidberg Rothchild Agency Corp. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

Blue Funnel Line Singapore, Malayan Union-Siam and ports Strachan Shipping Co.en routeBoland&Cornelius Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co.

Canadian PortsCanadian-Gulf Line, Ltd.Centramerican S/S-Agency, inc. - ....R. Chapman & SonChilean LineCia De Muelles de la Poblacion VergaraCommon Bros.

Various Ports

Companhia Nacional de Novegacao

Various PortsWest Coast--So~th AmericaSouth American PortsVarious Ports

Frank S. Dawson, Ltd.

Various PortsF. L. Dawson & Co., Ltd. Various Ports

Various Ports

Canadian-Gulf Line, Ltd.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Strachan Shipping Co.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.

Delta Line (Mississippi Shipping Co.)

Dodd Thomsen & Co., Ltd.Dodero LineP. FadriqueFall River Navigation Co.

Fern Line

French LineGeneral Steamship Corporation

Grace Line

Grancolombiana, Inc.

Gulf & South American Steamship Co., Inc.

Gulf-Stream S/S Co., Inc.HANDT Lines

Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo,Buenos Aires

Hoegh-Silver Line

Various PortsArgentine PortsMexican PortsVarious PortsFar East--Shanghai, Hongkong and

PhilippinesFrench North Atlantic PortsVarious PortsBuenaventura, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecua-

dor; Callao, Mollendo, Peru; Arica, Auto-fagasta, Valparaiso, Chile, and otherWest Coast South American Ports

South American Ports

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Strachan Shipping Co.Hansen & Tidemann, Inc. " -Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

Biehl & Company

E. S. BinningsTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Collin & Gissel

Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Buenaventnra, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecua-

dor; Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agentsother West Coast South American ports

Gulf and Caribbean Ports Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc.Various Ports .... Hansen & Tidemann. Inc.

Harrison Line Liverpool and ManchesterVarious Ports

Hogarth & SonsHolland America LineIndia Steamship Co., Ltd.Isbrandtsen Company, Inc.

Isthmian Steamship Company

Various PortsHolland, Belgium and English PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsIndia Ports--Persian Gulf Ports--Middle

East Ports

Wm. Parr & CompanyThomas Rice & Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Bloomfield Steamship Co.Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

Isthmian Steamship Company

Bloomfield Steamship Co.Jas. Griffiths & Sons, Inc. Various Ports

Java New York Line Netherlands East Indies, via Alexandria,Port Said and Suez Canal Strachan Shipping Company

Java Pacific Line Strachan Shipping Company

Kerr-Silver Line

Kerr-Silver Lines

South and East AfricaFar Eastern Ports. Netherlands East In-

dies, Malaya, India, Persian Gulf

l,vkes African Line

Lykes Continent Line

Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.

South African PortsSouth and East African PortsBremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Havre, Ant-

werp, Ghent. Also Polish, Swedish, Nor-wegian, Finnish, Danish and other NorthContinental Ports

Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Lykes Bros. Steamship Coil-inc.

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.


Lines

Lykes Mediterranean Line

Lykes Orient Line

Lykes South American Line

Lykes U. K. Line

Lykes West Indies Line

Mexican National LineMoller Line (U. K.) Ltd.Moller Shipping CompanyMungo Campbell & Co., Ltd.Naviera AznarNavigazione Alta ItaliaNervionThe Northern Pan America Line, A/SParry Navigation Company, Inc.Polarus Steamship Co., Inc.

FOREIGN SERVICESmContinued

Between Houston and Houston Agent or OperatorPortugal, Spain, South France, Greece,

Italy, Tunis and Algiers. Also Istanbul, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Alexandria, Beirut and Jaffa

China, Japan, Philippines, Hawaii, MalayStates, Straits Settlements and Nether- Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.lands East Indies

Cristobal, C. A.; Barranquilla, Cartagena~-, .........Colombia; La Guaira, Puerto Cabello,Guanta, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.Venezuela. Curacao, N. W. I. Trans-shipment to ~West Coast Central Americavia Cristobal, C. Z.

London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle,Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Avon- Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.mouth

San Juan, Ponce and Mayaguez, PuertoRico. Havana and Santiago, Cuba. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ciudad Trujillo, D. R.

Vera CruzVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsNorth Spain, PortugalItalian and Mediterranean Ports

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

E. S. BinningsBloomfield Steamship Co.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Bloomfield Steamship Co.Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.

Barcelona and Spanish Mediterranean Ports]East Coast of South America

tVarious PortsVarious Ports

Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Biehl & CompanyStrachan Shipping CompanyHansen & Tidemann, Inc.

Ponchelet Marine Corp. Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Ropner Shipping Company, Ltd. U.K.--Continent Strachan Shipping Company

Royal Netherlands Line Netherlands and British West Indies andNorth Coast South America Strachan Shipping Company

Runciman Shipping Co., Ltd. Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.Various PortsBaltic and Scandinavian-PortsScandinavian-American Line Strachan Shipping Company

Southern Steamship Company American Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

States Marine Corporation Far East, Australia, New Zealand andthe Mediterranean States Marine Corporation

Stockard Steamship Corp.Sudden & Christenson

Swedish-America Mexico Line

Waterman Steamship Corporation

Wilhelmsen Line

Williams & Frazee, Inc.

Various Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Co.Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and other Fowler & McVitieScandinavian PortsBremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Havre,

Antwerp, London, China, Japan, Philip- Bloomfield Steamship Companypines and Hawaii. Mediterranean andAdriatic Ports

Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Fowler & McVitieother Scandinavian PortsCanadian and Latin American Ports i Williams & Frazee, Inc. - .....

NOTE : Besides the above, there are a large number of chartered vessels operating under private contract to various ports.

TANKER LINESThe following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and various ports

Lines Between Houston andAmerican Pacific Steamship Co. Various PortsAmerican Petroleum Transport Corp.American Republics Corporation

Various PortsVarious Ports

American Ship Brokerage Various PortsAmerican Trading and Production Cor-

porationAnglo-Mexican Petroleum Corp.Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd.Baltic Trading Co.Barber Asphalt CorporationBernuth Lembcke Co., Inc.Olaf Boe & Company

Various Ports

of the world; Corrected as of May 15, 1948

European PortsEuropean PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsNorth Atlantic PortsVarious Ports


C. T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Various PortsBritish Molasses Co., Ltd.British Tanker Co., Ltd.Bulls Tankrederi A/SCia. Arrendataria Del Monopolio de

Petroleos, S. A., Madrid, SpainCities Service Oil Company

United Kingdom and Continental PortsUnited Kingdom and Continental PortsVarious Ports

Spanish Ports

Various Ports

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Collin & GisselAmerican Republics CorporationCollin & Gissel

C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., AgentsLykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.. AgentsTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.American Republics CorporationStrachan Shipping CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Strachan ShiDping CompanyFowler & McVitieThomas Rice & Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Thomas Rice & Co., Inc.

Collin & Gissel

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TANKER LINESmContinued

Lines Between Houston and |

Coastwise Bulk Carriers, Inc. (CoastwiseLine, Agents) Various Ports

Colonial Navigation Co. Various Ports



C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)Commercial Molasses Company Various PortsCommon Bros., Ltd. United Kingdom and Continental PortsCompagnie Auxiliaire de Navigation Various PortsCompagnie Des Produits Chimiques Et

Raffineries De Berre Various Ports

Compagnie Nationale De Navigation Various PortsContinental Steamship Co. Various PortsA/S Thor Dahl Various Ports

Eivand Evensen A/SFearnley & EgerJames German & Company

L. Gill-Johannesen

Various PortsVarious Ports

Various Ports

Gow Harrison & Company

Christian Haaland .....Halfdan-Ditlev Simonsen & CompanyInternational Freighting Corp.

John I. JacobsJohnson LineKeystone Shipping Company

Collin & GisselThomas Rice & Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.


C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Biehl & Company

Biehl & CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various Ports Texas

TexasVarious PortsVarious Ports

North and South Atlantic Ports

Various PortsVarious PortsVarious Ports

A. F. Klaveness & Co. A/S

Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., Agents

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Col, inc.C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)

Various Ports Biehl & Company

Various Ports

Various Ports Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.

PortsPortsPorts

PortsPorts

Mexican Ports

Knut Knutsen, O. A. S.Leif Hoegh & Co., A/SAugust Leffler & Son VariousMaritime Trading Co., Ltd. VariousArth. H. Mathiesen VariousMathiasen’s Tanker Industries, Inc. VariousMelsom & Melsom VariousMexican Shipping & Trading Co.Molasses & General Transport Co., Ltd.

A. P. MollerNational Bulk Carriers, Inc.

United Kingdom and Continental PortsVarious Ports

George Nicolaou Ltd., LondonVarious PortsVarious Ports

NorWegian Shipping & Trade Mission Various PortsA. Gowart Olsen Various Ports

Various Ports

Various Ports

Pacific Tankers, Inc.


Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co.Pennsvlvania Shipping Company Various Ports

Petroleos Mexicanos Mexican PortsPure Oil Company Various PortsRederiaktiebolaget Fraternitas - Various PortsRederiaktiebolaget Transoil Various PortsChr. Salvesen & Company Various PortsErling H. Samuelsen Rederi A/S Various PortsSieling & Jarvis Various PortsSinclair Refining Company Various PortsSkibs A/S Avant Various PortsSociete An0-nyme Les Petroles D’Outre-Mer. Various PortsSociete Franeaise de Transports Petroliers Various PortsSocony-Vacuum Oil Company and For-

eign Affiliates Various Ports

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Various PortsForeign Affiliates

Stanolind Marine Transport Co. Various PortsThe Standard Brands, Inc. Various Ports

Thomas Rice & Company, Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Collin & GisselFowler & McVitieBiehl & CompanyCollin & Gissel

Thomas Rice & Co.. Inc.Strachan Shipping CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

J. S. BurrowsC. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (AsBrokers Only)


Collin & Gissel

Pure Oil CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Fowler & McVitieTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Collin & Gissel

Sinclair Refining Company

Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

J. S. Burrows

J. S. Burrows

C. J. Thibodeaux & Co. (As Brokers Only)Pure Oil Company


TANKER LINES--Continued

! Between Houston and / Houston Agent or OperatorI: Various Ports Bloomfield Steamship Company

Lines

Stephensen & ThorgersenTankers, Inc.A/S Tanktransport (Th. Berg, Mgr.)Tide Water Associated Oil Co. I Various PortsTraafikaktieboiaget G~:a~gesberg 0XelosUnd i various PortsTrelleborgs Angfartygs Nya Aktiebolag IA/S Ugland’s Rederi IUnion Maritime & Shipping Co. IUnion Oil Company of CaliforniaPhs. Van OmmerenH. WaageWestfal-Larsen & Co. A/SWilliams & Frazee, Inc.Yacimientos Petroliferios Fiscales Various Ports

Various Ports ! Collin & Gissel] Various Ports ] Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.

Various PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious PortsVarious Ports

J. S. BurrowsTexas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Strachan Shipping CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Co., Inc.Strachan Shipping CompanyTexas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.Williams & Frazee, Inc.Bloomfield Steamship Co.

NOTE: In addition to the above, a large number of tankers are operated exclusively in handling products of local refinerieB under private agreement.

COASTWISE SERVICESThe following table shows the various steamship lines operating between Houston and Gulf Ports and from Houston to Gulf Ports; Corrected as of May 15, 1948

Lines Between Houston and Houston Agent or Operator

Mobile, Alabama, and Brownsville, Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc.Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc. Texas, serving all intermediate ports.Brownsville, Texas to Boston, Mass.; New

Newtex Steamship Corporation York, New York; Philadelphia, Pa.; Newtex Steamship Corporationand Baltimore, Md.

Brownsville, Texas to Boston, Mass.; NewThe Texas Line (Newtex) York, New York; Philadelphia, Pa.; The Texas Line

and Baltimore, Md.

Lines From Houston to Houston Agent or OperatorLuckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc. Mobile, Alabama, and Tampa, Florida. Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc.

WATER-

To our city, to the great Southwest, we give a

toastmwith water! Industrial wheels must turn first

upon an adequate supply of water. Giant cities with

expanding suburban areas, small towns, and villages

thrive only where this commodity is available . . .

abundantly.

The Layne-Texas well systems have served every

water need in our own corner of America. That is

the reason we know our highly trained, specialty

engineers have a guarantee of service to offer . . .

a guarantee of service proven by a half-century ofwater craftsmanship!

LAYNE-TEXASf’f%,

HOUSTON - DALLAS


INTERCOASTAL SERVICESThe following table shows the various tanker lines operating between Houston and Pacific Coast Ports; Corrected as of May 15, 1948

Lines Between Houston and Houston Agent or OperatorLos Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland,

Isthmian S/S Co. Calif., Portland, Oregon, and Seattle and Isthmian S/S CompanyTacoma, Wash.

Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland,Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc. Calif, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle and Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc.

Tacoma, WashingtonThe Union Sulphur Co., Inc. West Coast Ports Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.

INTRACOASTAL CANAL SERVICESThe following table shows the various barge and ship lines operating in and out of Houston through the Intraeoastal Canal; Corrected as of May 15, 1948

"Lines Between Houston and Houston Agent or OperatorAnderson Petroleum Transportation Co. Intracoastal Canal Points Anderson Petroleum Transportation Co.

Arthur-Smith Corporation

Barge Transport Company

Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc.

Butcher-Arthur, Inc.Coyle Lines, Inc.Crown Central Petroleum CorporationEdwards Transportation Co. (Oil Trans.)J. S. Gissel & CompanyHarbor Transport Company

H. W. A. Harms Towing Company

Houston Barge Terminal

Intracoastal Canal and Mississippi RiverPoints

Intracoastal Canal Points, Etc.Mobile, Alabama, and Brownsville,

Texas, serving all intermediate ports.Gulf, Mississippi, Ohio River PortsNew Orleans and Intermediate PortsIntracoastal Canal PointsGulf and Mississippi River PointsIntracoastal Canal Points

Arthur-Smith Corporation

Barge Transport Company

Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc.

Butcher-Arthur, Inc.Coyle Lines, Inc.

Intracoastal Canal PointsGulf, Intracoastal Canal and Lower Mis-

sissippi River PointsGulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi and

Ohio River Points Shipside Contracting Company

Crown Central Petroleum CorporationEdwards Transportation Co.J. S. Gissel & CompanyHarbor Transport Company -- --

H. W. A. Harms Towing Company

Cornelius Kroll & Company Gulf, Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi andOhio River Points Cornelius Kroll & Company

Mississippi ~Valley Barge Line Co. _( Mississippi River and Ohio River Points Virgil J. Angell, Southern General AgentProducers Transport & Marketing Company I Intracoastal Canal ........ Points Producers Trflnsport & Marketing CompanyPure Oil Company b Intracoastal Canal Points Pure Oil CompanyRiver Terminals Corporation Canal Points River Terminals CorporationI Intracoastal

Chas. C. Smith & CompanyI

Intracoastal Canal Points, Ohio and Mis-sissippi Rivers and Their Tributaries Chas. C. Smith & Company

Texas Towing Company Intracoastal, Mississippi and Ohio RiverPoints Texas Towing Company

Union Barge Line Corp. b Mississippi River and Ohio River Points Warner J. Banes, Houston AgentWi]kins Barge Line. Ltd. ! Gulf and Mississippi River Points Wilkins Barge Line, Ltd.

Williams & Frazee. Inc. Gulf. Intracoastal Canal, Mississippi, Ohioand Illinois Rivers Williams & Frazee. Inc.

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The George W. Catt, the largest dredge to operate in Gulf Coast waters, is shown at work on maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channelunder a $1,250,000 project.


Houston Ranks as a Major PortOf the United States

Comparative Statement of Cargo Tonnage Handled at United States Ports by Calendar Years

Short Tons--Ports Over 3,000,000 Tons

SEA COAST PORTS

Compiled from U. S. Engineers’ Reports by the Navigation District of Houston, Texas.

1946 1945 1944 1943

Port Rank Tons Rank Tons Rank Tons Rank Tons

New York, N.Y. 1 i08,533,342 1 i03,962;023 1 i10,282,139 1 111,813,42226,179,.)7., 2 24,390,953 :~ 18,757,310Philadelphia Harbor, Pa. 2 32,779,932 2 ( .7

Baltimore Harbor & Channels, Md. "~ 32,195,348 6 2’S,183,721 5 17,651,441 4 16,086,321HOUSTON, TEXAS 4 31,837,453 4 23,869,878 6 16,956,538 6 15,047,871New Orleans, La. 5 24,207,733 3 25,204,532 3 23,948,506 2 21,328,687Beaumont, Texas 6 23,052,108 8 13,604,977 12 8,580,011 13 7,786,000Port Arthur, Texas 7 20,177,288 10 12,292,64(; 14 7,673,935 15 6,580,844

Norfolk, Va. 8 16,041,678 7 14,447,348 7 13,710,510 8 10,741,862Boston, Mass. 9 15,008,334 9 12,850,522 9 10,743,017 11 8,471,046Los Angeles, Calif. 10 14,488,796 5 23,857,279 4 19,922,843 5 15,605,165Texas City, Texas 11 13,149,109 13 8,696,711 17 7,095,281 16 5,771,176Port Aransas, Texas 12 10,199,061 22 5,787,148 29 3,164,600 29 2,744,677Lake Charles, La. 13 10,051,991 1(; 8,002,738 21 5,683,134 26 2,903,303Corpus Christi, Texas 14 9,703,961 1.() 7,325,833 19 6,392,091 19 4,638,129Seattle, Wash. 15 9,646,125 12 10,226,247 8 11,131,143 9 10,360,556Portland, Ore. 16 9,361,390 11 10,521,083 10 9,732,377 7 12,104,234Newport News, Va. 17 8,694,748 17 7,8"~2,463 16 7,346,340 18 4,939,196Baton Rouge, La. 18 8,367,965 15 8,121,747 13 7,843,697 14 6,862,316Richmond, Calif. 19 7,765,892 14 8,560,545 11 8,677,442 10 9,244,626Providence River & Harbor, R.I. 20 6,542,305 2.(} 3,74.9,03(~ 28 3,228,536 3(I 2,643,291Portland, Me. 21 5,988,900 24 4,848,696 22 4,454,199 22 3,773,671Galveston, Texas 22 5,960,924 27 4,280,098 3(; 2,290,946 40 1,546,134Mobile, Ala. 23 5,414,896 26 4,287,408 32 2,851,616 21 3,855,206Honolulu, T.H. 24 5,076,063 25 4,808,137 18 6,506,528 35 2,194,348Oakland, Calif. 25 4,976,334 20 6,147,()29 20 5,728,638 17 5,258,862

’ ) OCharleston, S.C. 26 4,855,518 28 .:,,818,0o4 37 2,275,466 58 838,538Albany, N.Y. 27 4,738,446 39 2,497,380 74 592,204 65 614,955New Haven, Conn. 28 4,324,057 32 3,450,421 33 2,846,471 32 2,534,586San Francisco, Calif. 29 4,200,517 18 7,530,0(}7 15 7,617,106 12 7,939,616San Pablo Bay & Mare Island

Strait, Calif. 30 3,974,22(} 35 2,992,70O 31 2,942,747 28 2,87,6,998Tampa, Fla. 31 3,700,87(} 33 3,384,628 23 4,345,912 20 4,421,470San Luis Obispo, Calif. 32 3,646,345 23 4,876,539 25 3,795,947 31 2,542,828Long Beach, Calif. 3"~ 3,519,027 21 5,928,777 24 4,285,985 24 3,688,826Tacoma, Wash. 34 3,438,801 30 3,594,329 30 3,082,814 27 2,880,030Everett, Wash. 35 3,050,14‘), 34 3,144,905 26 3,737,353 23 3,696,095Estero Bay, Calif. 36 3,()34,754 36 2,980,148 -- (1) -- (1)

(1) Not separately reported.

GREAT LAKES PORTS- TONNAGE OVER 3,000,000

1946 1945

1942Rank Tons

1 i 01,880,78(i5 17,119,4094 17,479,1183 17,661,4472 22,637,215

11 9,490,1148 10,833,4017 12,743,229

10 10,431,1796 12,967,563

15 7,670,65341 1,702,89825 3,294,82618 5,012,9459 10,739,142

13 9,310,87217 5,263,48414 7,744,22012 9,473,86822 3,527,11827 3,1(’,9,88~

42 1,683,17319 4,406,065?,7 2,116,21220 4,198,66854 1,158,1874(; 1,449,08724 3,318,33616 6,427,388

32 2,467,11623 3,394,18(;39 1,901,67030 2,530,63(;34 2,375,20721 3,863,08535 2,’~66,961

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Duluth-SuperiorToledo, OhioChicago, Ill.Cleveland, OhioBuffalo, N. Y.Detroit, Mich.Two Harbors (Agate Bay), Minn.Sandusky, OhioAshtabula, OhioConneaut, OhioIndiana Harbor, Ind.Calcite, Mich.Lorain, OhioGary, Ind.Milwaukee, Wis.Erie, Pa.Ashland, Wis.Escanaba, Mich.Green Bay Harbor, Wis.Fairport, Ohio

1944 (")1 .)4.)Tons Rank Tons Rank Tons

54,285,385 1 65,410,743 1 67,188,85830,051,026 2 30,568,366 2 32,317,22418,925,928 4 20,261,199 3 24,373,23216,539,046 6 18,656,853 6 20,526,47716,150,366 3 23,127,699 4 23,360,75915,754,987 7 16,037,985 7 16,680,73515,673,235 5 19,739,021 5 21,639,44912,668,547 9 13,557,288 l0 14,647,95112,180,657 10 13,405,731 9 15,665,01711,992,343 8 14,088,972 8 15,684,05611,235,372 11 13,059,050 11 13,535,33610,983,319 13 9,763,471 15 8,774,2158,655,688 14 9,711,426 13 9,197,6438,629,612 12 10,570,593 12 10,300,5487,900,892 16 8,023,961 16 8,052,2495,972,12(; 15 9,197,149 14 8,793,2194,942,259 18 5,455,114 17 6,886,4543,741,44(; 17 5,535,22(t 18 6,755,8913,202,522 24 2,845,997 23 2,844,1253,159,2(}9 19 4,449,9(}5 19 4,861,02(I

1942Rank Tons Rank Tons

1 68,656,789 1 74,314,6462 29,551,707 2 32,463,8715 21,346,781 5 21,707,4566 20,670,793 4 21,963,4853 21,718,917 3 23,312,5017 16,230,525 7 17,755,8054 21,656,223 6 21,033,079

11 11,000,473 11 10,824,4569 15,266,463 9 16,552,4248 15,639,519 8 16,866,348

10 12,688,776 10 12,028,74113 9,217,390 13 9,932,08612 9,859,806 15 9,808,38714 8,930,691 14 9,917,23815 7,677,919 17 7,599,32117 7,255,140 12 10,172,42318 6,754,547 16 7,648,00516 7,347,021 18 7,277,45924 2,667,248 23 2,815,61419 4,416,229 20 4,152,597


Privately Owned Terminal and

Industrial FacilitiesThe Houston Ship Channel, which is 25 miles in Harris County,

e~ffers water frontage, splendid rail and highway connections, elec-tric power, ample oil and gas fuel, pure artesian water, and mildclimate, and has proved a very attractive location for a numberof major industries, particularly oil refineries. As a result of thesenatural advantages over 70 plants have been established along itsbanks, with a capital investment of $500,000,000, employing about25,000 men, with a daily payroll of about $150,000.

Each year there is a substantial increase in the number ofsuch industries, and also extensive additions to those now inoperation.

These private plants now have 24,081 lineal feet of wharves,sufficient to berth 54 vessels and 16 barges.

The following is a summary of the plants and their facilities,beginning at the Turning Basin:

Port Houston Iron Works. Drydock and complete ship repairs.Berths available for vessels undergoing repairs.

Humble Oil & Refining Co. Handling fuel and bunker oil,using Navigation District Wharves. Supplying vessels and railroads,and industries. Connection at Wharves Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, Dieselfuel available at Wharf No. 3 only.

Turning Basin Compress, operated by Southern Compress &Warehouse Company. One high density compress, storage, classingand shipping.

Humble Oil & Refining Co. Eighty-five acre tank farm andspecialty manufacturing plant. Two bunker lines, one for bunkerC fuel oil and one for Diesel fuel, with connections on WharvesNos. 10 to 15, inclusive, for bunkering ships while discharging orreceiving cargo. Located on north bank of Channel.

Port City Compress & Warehouse Co., owned by Atkinson &Company, located three-quarters of a mile northeast of TurningBasin on tracks of the Houston Belt & Terminal and Southern Pa-cific Railway.

Ralston Purina Co. Receiving shipload cargoes of molasses fordistribution throughout the state. Pipe line over Navigation Dis-trict Wharf No. 1.

Rothermel Bros. Drumming of petroleum products (Use Navi-gation District Wharf No. 15).

Parker Bros. & Co., Inc., Wharf Site No. 17, sand and shellunloading rig, north side Channel.

Armour Fertilizer Works, Manufacture of commercial ferti-

lizer. Shipments of phosphate rock received by vessels. Sulphurby carload from Texas mines. Own wharf.

Houston Wharf Co. (Long Reach Docks), concrete wharf3,428 feet long, marginal tracks, berthing space for eight steamers.Cargo of all kinds handled by this Company. (Owned and operatedby Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co.)

Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Long Reach Plant), two highdensity compresses, concrete warehouses, storage for 325,000 balesof cotton.

Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Fifth Ward Plant), two highdensity compresses, and warehouses with capacity of 375,000 balesof cotton.

Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Clinton Plant), high densitycompress, and warehouses with capacity of 100,000 bales of cotton.

Ship Channel Compress Company, Inc. Sprunts Dock withberth space for two steamers, two story brick and concrete ware-houses. High density compress and warehouses with capacity of150,000 bales of cotton.

Terminal Warehouse Company. Two high density compresses,large brick and cement warehouses, capacity 100,000 bales.

W. D. Haden Co. Marine Department and Machine Shop,mouth of Brays Bayou.

Houston Marine Service, Inc. Boat basin and marine repairyard for care of yachts, work boats, and pleasure boats, locatedon Brays Bayou.

Bludworth Shipyard. Marine ways, shipbuilding and boatrepair yard, salvaging and towing services, located on Brays Bayou.

Platzer Boat Works. Shipbuilding and marine repairs, locatedon Brady Island and Brays Bayou.

The Humble Oil & Refining Co. Oil station for small craftand vehicles.

Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Shell and sand unloading plant inold channel, Harrisburg.

Harrisburg Machine Co. All Kinds of ship and machine repairs,located on Old Channel of Buffalo Bayou in Harrisburg.

Harbor Transport Company. Ship bunkering facilities. Lo-cated on Old Channel of Buffalo Bayou, Harrisburg.

Consolidated Chemical Industries Inc. Large chemical plantmanufacturing sulphuric acid, muriatic acid, bone charcoal, other

Texas

OFFICES:

New York, N. Y.

Philadelphia, Pa.Baltimore, Md.

Charleston, S. C.

Savannah, Ga.

Cable and Telegraphic Address e~TERMINAL" Houston

Transport & Terminal Company, Inc.REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO THE PRINCIPAL PORTS

IN EUROPE AND THE ORIENT

Cotton Exchange Building

HOUSTON, TEXAS

OFFICES:

New Orleans, La.Galveston, TexasHouston, TexasDallas, TexasCorpus Christi, TexasMemphis, Tenn.


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STEEL PRICES LAG...Far Behind Prices of Most Commodities!It is easy for all to see, hard for some to admit--

1st, that steel prices are relatively Iow--2nd, that price advances have been comparatively modest.

For example--note that the mill price, including extras, on 12 ga. hotrolled 60" x 100" steel sheets in 1939 was 2 1/3¢ per lb. InFebruary1948, it had advanced less than 1¢ to 3 1/4¢ per lb. In the sameperiod 3/4 inch merchant bars, including extras, advanced from lessthan 2 1/5¢ to slightly over 3¢ per lb.Sheets and merchant bars are two finished steel items in most populardemand. The~ comprise nearly 22X of all mill shipments of finishedsteel in 1947.Now, compare prices on steel’s most wanted items with compositeprices on the five non-ferrous metals. In 1939 it was over 10 1/2¢per lb. By 1948 it had zoomed to over 20¢ per lb. Or, compare thesteel industry’s record of holding prices down with prices on the 15leading commodities which affect the cost of living most. Compositeprices of these shot up from an index of 150 in 1939 to over 450 asof January 1948.Had steel prices made comparable advances to non-ferrous metals,the price on sheets and bars would now be 4 1/2¢ per lb. or 73/4¢per lb. had steel prices advanced like commodity prices.

Steel IS Cheap !SHEFFIELD STEEL CORPORATIONHOUSTON KANSAS CITY TULSA

Carbon and Alloy Steel, Ingots, Blooms, We|ded Wire Mesh, Wife Products, WireBillets, Plates, Sheets, Merchant Rods, Fence, Spring Wire, Nails,

Bars, Steel Joists, Structural Rivets, Grinding Media, Forg-Shapes, Road Guard, ings, Track Spikes, Bolt

Reinforcing Bars and Nut Products

SALES OFF CES Chicago, III. St. Louis, Mo.; Des Mo nes, la.; Omaha, Nebr.;Wichita, Kans.; Denver, Colo.; Oklahoma City, Ok a.; Dallas, Tex.; San Antonio,

Tex.; Lubbock, Tex.; New Orleans, La.; Shreveport, La.

bone products and fertilizer. Barge wharf, located onold channel of Buffalo Bayou.

Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. Own bargewharf. Pipe lines to Manchester wharves.

Magnolia Petroleum Co. Gasoline storage and ma-rine warehouse. Own barge and ship wharf.

Lone Star Cement Corporation. Large plant manu-facturing high grade Portland and oil well cement fromoyster shell and clay. Capacity 2,000,000 barrels peryear, operating two kilns. Barge wharf.

Arrow Mills, Inc. (Formerly Houston Milling Co.,lnc.)--Flour mill, feed mill and grain elevator. 2,000,-000 bushels capacity. Carrier house to Manchester PublicWharf, loading capacity 20,000 bushels per hour. Pneu-matic system to take grain from ship to elevator.

Pure Oil Co. Marketing. (Using Channel FuelWharf.)

Arkansas Fuel Oil Co. Petroleum products distribu-tion station. (Use Channel Fuel Wharf.)

Continental Oil Company. Gasoline and kerosenedistributing station and storage tanks. Small craft andbarge wharf.

Tennessee Coal, Iron 8: Railroad Company. Termi-nal and Warehouse.

Southern Pacific Lines. Steamship terminal atClinton. First unit berths three vessels. Slip 850 feet.

Gulf Portland Cement Co. Manufacturers of Port-land cement, oil well cement and masonry.

Mayo Shell Co. Poultry feed grinding plant.

Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. Pile wharf andtank storage. Pipe lines to refinery.

Manchester Terminal Corporation. Concretewharves and two-story concrete transit sheds; Berthsfor four ships; General cargoes handled. Two highdensity compresses; Two-story concrete storage ware-houses, capacity 325,000 bales of cotton. Large openarea for outside storage.

W. D. Haden Co. Marine ways for barge and smallcraft repairs in Simms Bayou near Navigation DistrictRailroad bridge.

W. D. Haden Co. Shell unloading rig and sidetracks in Simms Bayou near Navigation District Rail-road bridge.

Coastal Oil ~ Transport Co. (Leased to HumbleOil & Refining Co.) Storage and shipments of gasoline.Ship wharf.

Gulf Oil Corporation. Terminal. Wharf 590 feet.Sinclair Refining Co. Refiners and shippers of crude

and refined oils. Wharf 1,400 feet long, pipe line con-nections to various fields in the Mid-Continent area.

Houston Lighting & Power Co. Electric powerplant, 160,000 k.w. capacity, total capacity 260,000k.w. including all plants. High tension power lines ex-tending along each side of channel provide ample powerfor city and industrial use. Barge wharf.

General American Tank Storage Terminals. Petro-leum and vegetable oil terminal tank farm.

Maritime Oil Company Refinery. Topping plant.Use General American wharf. Capacity 5,000 barrelsper day.

Champion Paper & Fibre Co. Paper pulp plant,finishing mill, barge wharf, conveyors, etc.

The Texas Co. (Houston Works). Refining andshipment of crude and refined oils. Pipe line connectionsto large fields, 1,400 foot wharf. Slip with berths forthree vessels.

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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation. Oil refining andshipping by vessel. Wharf 150 feet.

Phillips Petroleum Co. Gasoline exporting terminal.Horton & Horton. Slip, wharves, shell unloading rig, marine

ways and repair yard, located on Cotton Patch Bayou.Southern Acid & Sulphur Co. Two Docks--143 ft. and 153 ft.

in length. Bulk cargo dock.American Republics Corporation. Tank farm and storage.

Shipment of Petroleum products. Oil wharf 150 feet. Barge wharf40 feet.

Sheffield Steel Corporation. Blast Furnace, Coke Ovens, BasicOpen Hearth Furnaces, Blooming Mill, Structural Mill, Merchantand Rod Mills, Wire Products, etc.

Nyotex Chemicals, Inc. Plant for making lime from oystershell; plant for producing anhydrous aluminum chloride; plant forproducing anhydrous hydrofluoric acid; all located on Green’sBayou.

W. D. Haden Co. Shell retail delivery plant, located on Green’sBayou.

W. L. Jones & Son. Ship repair yard and drydock in Green’sBayotl just above its mouth. Shell loading dock.

Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Barge repair and construction yard,marine ways. Located on Green’s Bayou.

Texas Shipbuilding Co. Boat, tug and barge construction andrepairs. Two marine railways. Located on Green’s Bayou.

Brown Shipbuilding Co., Inc. Complete drydocking, repairand shipbuilding facilities, 14,000 and 4,000 ton floating dry-docks. Ample wharves and building ways. Capable of handling anyship navigating the Houston Ship Channel. Located on the HoustonShip Channel at the mouth of Green’s Bayou.

Schmidt Barge Yard. Green’s Bayou. Tug and barge buildingplant, also repairs.

San Jacinto Ordnance Depot. Storage depot and terminalfacilities.

Shell Oil Co., Inc. Large refinery and tank farm. Slip withfour berths. Petroleum products loading facilities.

San Jacinto Battleground Park. 2,100 lin. ft. steel bulkheadwharf for small craft.

Channel Shipyard, Lynchburg. Boat building and repairs. 500-ton marine ways.

Gulf Refining Company (Houston Pipe Line Department),Lynchburg. Oil storage. Shipment by vessel and pipe line. Wharf200 feet.

Humble Oil & Refining Co. Refinery at Baytown, refiningand shipment of crude and refined oil products. Two concretewharves 600 and 400 feet long, barge wharf 250 feet.

E. I. d~ Pont de Nemours & Co. (Grasselli Chemicals Depart-ment). Chemical plant, located on Brinson Point about one-fourthmile west of the main Houston Ship Channel.

Humble Oil & Refining Co. Barge terminal on BarbourChannel.

Standard Oil Co. of Texas. Salt Dome Corporation. Bargeterminal on Barbour Channel.

Cliff Boat Yard--Marine Park.Houston has over 100 producing oil fields within a radius

of 100 miles, and pipe lines extend to all major coastal and mid-continental oil and gas fields. Many of the major and independentcompanies maintain their principal offices at Houston.

Upper Channel Industrial Development

In addition to the industries established along the main chan-nel there are a number located t~pon the light draft channelbetween the harbor and the center of the city and having theirown wharves and cargo handling facilities. Among them the fol-lowing are noted:

Chas. C. Smith & Co. Barge and Towing Co.Ole Peterson & Son. Barge dock and mooring facility.National Supply Company. Steel bulkhead wharf for handling

pipe, steel, etc.

Serving Industry in Houston and Trade Territory forMore Than 40 Years

FOUNDERS MACHINISTSENGINEERS

HOUSTON FOUNDRY& MACHINE CO.

2005 White Street Houston, Texas Phone Capitol 9781

~h~ Industrial Center of Hou~on~

Niels Esperson Industrial DistrictHOUSTON, TEXAS

A. well located and highly developed exclusive industrial district, suppliedwith natural gas, electric power, railroads, convenience to port, accessibilityto all parts of city and major highways, small or large tracts, surroundedby excellent living conditions for dependable labor, conservative price.These all combine to make the Niels Esperson Industrial District worthyof the attention of "better business."

Consider the business development possibilities of the Houston territory--send for more complete information.

For complete information address

ESPERSON INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION! 334 Mellie Esperson Bldg. Phone F. 8543 HOUSTON, TEXAS


FIR AND YELLOW PINE LUMBERAND

RED CEDAR SHINGLES

W. H. Norris Lumber Company709-15First National Bank Building

HOUSTON, TEXAS

Plumbing " Industrial Piping ¯ Heating " Air Conditioning

Maintenance Service for Industries, Buildings and Homes

The Warren Company, Inc.CONTRACTORS

614 WALKER AVE.

HOUSTON, TEXAS Est. 1914 PHONE F. 1163

~J’ kREICHARDT ELECTRIC CO.

WHOLESALE ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES

AND APPARATUS

Emerson Fans : : G. E. Lamps

1009-11 Wood Street Preston 6261 Houston, Texas

V

LUCKENBACHIntercoastal Service

BETWEEN

HOUSTON, MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, TAMPAAND

LOS ANGELES HARBOR--SAN FRANCISCOAND OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

PORTLAND, OREGON, SEATTLE, TACOMA,WASHINGTON

ALSOCOASTWISE SERVICEFROM HOUSTON TO

MOBILE, ALA., AND TAMPA, FLA.

GULF OFFICES:Ho’aston, Texas 831 First National Bank Building ;

Phone Capitol 9837.

Mobile, Ala. 707 Merchants National Bank Building ;Phone Mobile 3-36S1.

New Orleans, La. 424 Whitney Building;Phone Raymond 0311.

Tampa, Fla. P.O. Box 377 ; Phone Tampa M 3718.

GENERAL OFFICE: 120 Wall StA’eet, New York.

Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc.

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Republic Supply Company. Pipe yard and warehouse.

Continental Supply Company. Pipe yard.

Houston Barge Terminal. Barge terminal and warehouse.Parker Bros. & Co., Inc. Shell unloading plant and builders’

supplies.Shellbuilder Co. Oyster shell poultry feed.

San Jacinto Sand & Gravel Co. Barge dock for unloading~and.

Trinity Portland Cement Division General Portland CementCompany.

Houston Packing Company. Meat packers.Pritchard Rice Milling Co.Dedman Foundry & Machine Co.

Houston Shell & Concrete Co.Zero Ice Plant.The Texas Company. Bulk Station.Houston Lighting & Power Company. Gable Street plant,

60,000 k.w.United Gas.Horton & Horton. Sand--shell--gravel--ready mixed concrete.

Peden Iron & Steel Co. Sales and warehouse.The General Warehouse.Houston Central Warehouse Company.Texas Packing Company. Meats.

Houston Terminal Warehouse & Cold Storage Company.Merchants & Manufacturers Building Corporation.Buffalo Warehouse Company, warehousing and distribution

facilities.John Young Co., Inc. Shell. Located at foot of Fannin

Street on Buffalo Bayou.City wharves.B. A. Reisner & Son Co. Structural steel.NATURAL GAS. The channel industrial area is served on

each side of the waterway by natural gas piped from the fieldsby the United Gas, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, Gas Divisionof Humble Oil & Refining Co. and Houston Industrial GasCompany, whose mains are available to all industries.

BUILDING PERMITS

HOUSTON, TEXAS--(1913 thru March 1948)Compiled by Research and Statistics Department, Houston Chamber of Commerce

1913 $ 4,965,635 1931 $11,701,4911914 3,250,739 1932 2,873,1301915 1,797,094 1933 3,224,4491916 3,086,870 1934 4,812,5651917 3,124,327 1935 6,961,3961918 2,270,649 1936 18,493,3791919 6,861,619 1937 18,606,7631920 8,531,447 1938 25,052,3231921 10,398,295 1939 26,737,2281922 13,390,469 1940 24,253,8881923 19,117,106 1941 19,218,6761924 17,216,259 1942 11,292,0091925 35,040,550 1943 7,960,3701926 28,512,805 1944 9,268,7391927 27,326,475 1945 41,087,8441928 35,319,503 1946 50,693,5911929 29,526,810 1947 72,401,1141930 17,616,202 1948 3 Mo. 31,890,527

Source: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.


A Detailed Description

Of the PortLocation

The Port of Houston developed in the brief span of twentyyears to the third port of the nation in total tonnage ofwaterborne commerce. The port consists of the Houston ShipChannel and tributaries, all lying within Harris County. Har-ris County has a land area of 1747 square miles. It is one of thelarger counties of the State of Texas. Only eight counties of the254 counties which make up the State of Texas exceed it in area.

The Ship Channel enters the County at Morgan’s Point, andfrom that point to the Turning Basin 25 miles of the Channel arewithin the County and, with the tributaries, provide a network ofwaterways which offer great attractions to industry and to water-borne commerce. All of this area is level, but well drained, land andis well above all storm tides and floods.

The Ship Channel ends at the Turning Basin. The Turning Basinis inside the City Limits 4 miles and is completely surrounded bywharves, docks, and terminal facilities, all owned and operated bythe Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District. TheShip Channel was constructed by dredging out Buffalo Bayou andstraightening this stream to meet the requirements of large vesselnavigation. Sixteen miles of the Ship Channel are in Buffalo Bayou,nine miles in the San Jacinto River, twenty-five miles in GalvestonBay, and from the end of the Ship Channel at Bolivar Roads todeep sea is a distance of eight and one-half miles; therefore, a vesseltraversing from deep sea to the Turning Basin covers fifty-eightand one-half miles.

Depth and Width of ChannelsA vessel entering the Port of Houston uses the Galveston jetties,

crosses Bolivar Roads, and enters the Ship Channel. Across Galves-ton Bay and through Morgan’s Point, a distance of twenty-fivemiles, the width is 400 feet on the bottom; and from Morgan’sPoint to Baytown exceeds 350 feet on the bottom; from Baytownto the Turning Basin exceeds 200 feet on the bottom, the generalaverage being close to 300 feet in this section.

The available depth of water at all periods and tide is 34 feetover the entire waterway from the Gulf to the Turning Basin.

Recently the Navigation District requested the United StatesEngineers for additional deepening and widening. The request wasfor 36 feet through the entire waterway, with widths of 550 feetbottom up to Baytown, and with reduced sections to the TurningBasin, all with a mean low water depth of 36 feet.

Many streams in the County, tributary to the Ship Channel, arein use as light draft channels. All of them will accommodatebarges and craft which operate on the Intracoastal Canal. In gen-eral, these streams are nine feet deep and 100 feet in width.

The tide rise and fall on the Houston Ship Channel rarely ex-ceeds 14 inches, and the average is less than 1 foot. Due to thelevel country, the waterway is subject to rises and falls of the waterlevel due to the effect of prevailing winds. The Southwest windswhich prevail through a large portion of the year contribute to aplus effect on the waterway, amounting to approximately 2 feet.

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Port AuthorityThe development of the Port of Houston began with the funds

of private individuals. The City of Houston, realizing the neces-sity of augmented development, issued bonds in the amount of$3,150,000.00 in the period 1908 to 1917, inclusive.

In the period 1911 to 1930, inclusive, Harris County authorizedbond issues totaling $11,923,000.00, and these funds were ex-pended by the Navigation and Canal Commissioners in developingthe channel in cooperation with the United States Engineers, inconstructing a railroad which would make it possible for all therailroads of Texas to enter the Ship Channel area on an equal basis,in constructing a 3,500,000-bushel capacity grain elevator, andin constructing a modern system of wharves and docks.

In 1922 the Navigation District leased from the City all of itsproperties. As of July 1, 1945, the Navigation District purchasedfrom the City all of its port facilities for an agreed appraised priceof $1,500,000.00. All of these properties are operated by the Navi-gation District and all are open to world commerce and trade on abasis of published tariffs--tariffs published by the Navigation Dis-trict and, in general, concurred in by private facilities which havebeen constructed on the Channel.

The Navigation District exercises jurisdiction over all construc-tion on the navigable waterway in the County and, in addition,had deeded to it the surface rights of the waters in San Jacinto Bay,that portion of the County through which runs the San JacintoRiver, and in which the Ship Channel is constructed. The Naviga-tion and Canal Commissioners exercise no control over the opera-tions of industries or terminals constructed on the navigable watersof the County. They do exercise full control over fixing the metesand bounds of the future Ship Channel, provide areas on whichdredged spoil is to be deposited, and cooperated with the UnitedStates Engineers in improvements to the waterways.

Many industrial plants and private terminals have developed inthe County, and along these waterways there is a vast industrialand commercial district which has developed thereby justifying the

faith of those who first determined to bring the deep waters of thesea to the City of Houston and its industrial area.

There are at this time berthing spaces for close to 80 vessels. Ofthese berths, 18 are operated by the Navigation District and 14 areoperated by private owners, and these 32 berths are offered to worldtrade on a "for-hire" basis. The balance of the ship berths serveprivate owners only.

Transportation in the Navigation District¯ The Navigation and Canal Commissioners have invested over

$3,000,000.00 in a railroad which extends in areas not served byother rail carriers. This railroad is operated by all the carriers serv-ing the Texas Ports on a cooperative basis, and is extended by theNavigation District to areas not served by rail carriers as develop-ments require such extensions.

The Turning Basin is 1300 feet in diameter, and radiating fromit are important transportation features.

There are no bridges across the Ship Channel, and the majorfactors of transportation cost are tied to the transportation centerwhich is the Turning Basin. Switching costs, trucking costs, bargeoperations, and warehouse operations are all closely connected withthe Turning Basin, and a uniform switching charge in the Houstonarea extends to all of the terminals and other industries which arelocated within the City Limits. All rail freight rates to and fromthe vast Southwest area apply equally to the Galveston Bay portsand all of the industrial area of Harris County.

Serving all of this development are unlimited supplies of naturalgas, industrial water supply, and all forms of utilities. From Gal-veston Bay is dredged annually a very large tonnage of mud shell--a very pure source of lime.

These factors, with climate, good highways, a complete railnetwork, and barges, all bring to this area conditions which favor thedevelopment which is under way.

The Navigation District, owners of rights of way for transpor-tation lines, aids by providing easements and rights of way for suchutilities, all furnished on a uniform charge basis.

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I ndustrial DevelopmentHouston has attracted attention as the ’°Oil Capital of the

World." Situated as it is, almost in the center of the vast coastaloil fields, it has become the center of a huge oil industry. It hasnaturally developed as an oil refinery center with all of its alliedindustries of pipe, tools, supplies, and equipment, and transportationwhich is a part of the oil industry.

Texas produces approximately one-third of the cotton of theSouthern States, and Houston has long been the leading cotton portof the nation. It has vast equipment in the form of cotton ware-houses and terminals. It is an important concentration and distribu-tion point for cotton. This large tonnage has attracted the fineststeamship service of any United States port and is one of the basicfactors for continued good steamship service to and from the Portof Houston.

Within a comparatively short period of time there have de-veloped on the Ship Channel large cement mills, utilizing the mudshell as the basis for cement manufacture; kraft and paper pulp mills;pig iron, steel and rolling mills; chemical plants and fertilizer works;flour mills; warehouses; boat yards; ship yards and many otherrelated forms of industry.

Raw materials abound in the Southwest, and there are availablefor basic industry enormous quantities of salt, sulphur, gypsum,fuller’s earth, carbon black, petroleum and petroleum products,natural gas, cotton, cotton seed products, grains of many varieties,rice, and a tremendous livestock industry. Supplementing these in-dustries is a large and dependable labor supply.

The climate is mild, with short winters marked by only an oc-casional freeze, and a summer with only a few days above ninetydegrees, cool gulf breezes prevailing most of the time. The annualrainfall is about 48 inches, fairly well distributed, and no "rainyseasons." Outdoor work can be carried on at all times.

Five trunk line systems serve the port, reaching out over a greathinterland area whose shortest haul is to the Port of Houston, thusaffording the lowest possible freight rates.

These systems are the Southern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, SantaFe, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Burlington-Rock Island; eachsystem having several subsidiaries, or branch lines, that serve allparts of the Southwest.

Highway transportation is available in all directions with manywell established truck lines affording over-night delivery to CentralTexas cities.

Air passenger and mail service centers at Houston, reaching outto all inland points.

All of the terminal facilities surrounding the Turning Basinare owned and operated by the Navigation District. A detaileddescription of these facilities appears in this publication on Page 42,and readers desiring more detailed description or information mayobtain it by addressing inquiries to the Navigation District.

There also appears in this publication.on page 56 a statementindicating the services which are performed by the Navigation Dis-trict and which are covered by its Tariff. This statement also in-cludes the wharves and docks of the Port of Houston which areoperated for hire and which operate, in general, under the termsand provisions of the Navigation District Tariff.

All of these terminals act as the official carloader and car un-loader for the railroads in the port, and through these agencies iscompleted the operation of the port as a gateway for competitivecommerce.

GENERAL W. F. HEAVEY(Continued from Page 24)

United States Military Academy at West Point as third rankingstudent in a class of 139 and the youngest member of his class. Hecompleted post-graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology from which he graduated in 1922. He is now servingas a member of the visiting committee of that Institute.


Following his return from overseas in World War I, he heldvarious army and civil assignments. These included instructorshipsat the military academy at West Point, at the engineering schoolin Fort Belvoir, Va., and at the infantry school, Fort Benning, Ga.He was assistant district engineer at Louisville, Ky., for two years,assistant division engineer of the Great Lakes Division for three andone-half years, and was on survey assignments in Panama.

He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers andis now serving on that society’s committee of ports and waterways.He is a charter member of the American Society of Military En-gineers and president of the New York City chapter, a member ofthe University Club of New York City and the Army and NavyClub of Washington, D. C.

His wife is the former Miss Julia Melcher, daughter of a latesenior vice president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-road. They have two sons, both World War II veterans. The eldest,a graduate of Annapolis, is a lieutenant commander in naval aviationand is stationed at Jacksonville, Fla. The youngest, a former memberof the air force, is completing his college education at New YorkUniversity.

$OIITHERR COMPRESS & WIIREIIOUSE CO.TURNING BASIN PLANT

HOUSTON, TEXAS

Located Adjacent to Wharves 7 and 8of the Navigation District

OFf:ICE LOCATED AT PLANT -- PHONE WAYSIDE 4101

AMERICAN GENERALq,o~p

merlcan General Fire

American General Life

American General Investment~o~po~eatlon

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CHANNEL PILOTAGE AND CHARGESHOUSTON PILOTS

Houston Offices: Telephone: Capitol 9451 Galveston Offices:803-04 Petroleum Bldg. Night Nos. Hadley 6876 1206 United States National Bank Building

Madison 2-5777 Telephone 2-2011

Pilot Boats: Houston Pilots Nos. 1 and 2--Meet vessels on Galveston Bar.Foreign vessels to or from a foreign or American port .................................................................................................... $ 5.50 per foot draftAmerican vessels to or from a foreign port ................................................................................................................. 5.50 per foot draftAmerican vessels under register to or from sea (Coastwise) ............................................................................................ 4.00 per foot draftAmerican vessels under enrollment to or from sea ............................................................................................................. 4.00 per foot draftAll vessels to or from Bolivar Roads ............................................................................................................................... 4.00 per foot draftSwinging vessel 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.When Pilot 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.

TUG BOAT TARIFF FOR HOUSTON SHIP CHANNELi Suderman & Young Towing Co., Inc., Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas.

Houston Towing Company, 811 Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas.Scheduleof Tug BoatOperators i Intracoastal Towing & Transportation Co., 503 Petroleum Building, Houston 2, Texas.

Bay Towing Company, 811 Cotton Exchange Building, Houston, Texas.With

BETWEEN own power

San Jacinto Ordnance Depot and U. S. Maritime Commissiontake the same rates as Shell

Morgan’s Point and ShellMorgan’s Point and BaytownBolivar Roads and Morgan’s PointBolivar Roads and BaytownBolivar Roads and ShellGalveston and BaytownHouston and ShellTexas City and BaytownHouston to Norsworthy, Crown, Galena, SincoHouston and Brown Shipyard and SheffieldHouston and Ordnance Depot and Chemical PlantGalveston and HoustonBolivar Roads and HoustonTexas City and HoustonMorgan’s Point and HoustonHouston and BaytownBaytown and Shell and Brown ShipyardOrdnance Depot to Baytown

Norsworthy, Crown, Galena, Sinco, Clinton, Manchestcrtake same rates as Houston from above points.Above Charges include Docking or Undocking.

Shifting vessels between docks at Manchester Terminaland Turning Basin, both inclusive, per tug $ 105.00

Shifting vessels between points below Manchester toNorsworthy inclusive, per tug 140.0.0

Shifting vessels from one point to another on the samedock between points below Manchester Terminalto Ordnance Depot, inclusive, per tug 145.00

Shifting from one berth to another at Baytown 105.00

$250.00155.00290.00295.00365.00350.00160.00350.00140.00185.00250.00475.00415.00475.00295.00270.00155.00155.00

DOCKING AND UNDOCKINGDocking or Off Docking at all points between Manchester

Terminal and Turning Basin, both inclusive $ 90.00Docking or Undocking at points below Manchester to

Norsworthy, inclusive 100.00Docking or Off Docking at points below Norsworthy to

Ordnance Depot, inclusive 140.00Docking or Off Docking at Baytown . 105.00

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICESFurnishing Steam: Per hour or fractional part, including

running time to and from ship $ 80.00A charge of $100.00 in addition to regular rate will be

made when voyage is not completed on day ofstarting.

Pulling on ships aground:When tug engaged in assisting steamer, 1 hour free

pulling time; each succeeding hour or fractionalpart 85.00

When tug is not engaged in assisting steamerPer hour or fractional part 90.00Running time chargeable.

The above rates to apply for a single tug.Tugs ordered to stand by but not put to work willbe charged for the same as if pulling.

Rates for towing dead ships between points on HoustonShip Channel, other than above specified, will becharged for on "pulling time basis."

All towed vessels to furnish towing hawsers.Holding vessels off Dock and Redocking between Man-

chester and Turning Basin, both inclusive, shift-ing rates to apply.

When tug ordered to certain points to perform servicesand orders cancelled after Tug leaves berth, mini-mum charge of $60.00 at Houston and Baytownwill be made.

DETENTIONDetention caused by vessel not being ready when tug ordered to

be charged for at $50.00 per hour, with one hour freetime allowed.

Rate of Charges for Mooring andOffice: 7437 Canal Street

Contract and charges made for mooring or unmooring vesselsbetween the Maritime Committee and the Houston MooringCompany.

For the purpose of this contract, the Houston Ship Channelfrom Houston Turning Basin to the U. S. Maritime Commissionshall be the total territory served by the Houston Mooring Com-pany.

DOCKING AND UNDOCKINGCharge of $15.00 for Mooring or Unmooring vessels at any place

in the Houston Ship Channel between the Turning Basin and ToddHouston Shipyard, inclusive.

Unmooring VesselsTelephone: Wayside 4488

Charge of $15.00 for Unmooring and $15.00 for Mooring in shift-ing from one berth to another; except when shifting to the adjoin-ing berth, which is a ship’s length of 500 feet; there will be acharge of $20.09 for the entire service.

A charge of $8.00 per hour for waiting time after the first houron all vessels. If a movement is cancelled after the men are at thepier, there will be a charge of one hour at the waiting time rate.No charge for delayed sailing or shifting on account of weatherconditions.

There will be a charge of $20.00 for any vessel docking at anyMud Bank. A double docking fee will be charged when docking oneship alongside another.


Public WharvesWharf

Covered Open RailroadLength Feet Berthing Area Area Car

Capacity Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Storage

No. 1 .................................................. 823No. 2 .................................................. 522No. 3 ............................................... 799No. 4 ................................................ 777No. 5 ................................................... 80Nos. 7 and 8 ..................................... 800No. 10 .............................................. 600No. 11 ............................................ 530No. 12, Two story .............................. 530No. 13, Two story* ........................... 460No. 14 ........................................... 480No. 15 .................................... 480Manchester Wharf (No. 75) 500Channel Fuel Dock (No. 77) 253Distribution WarehouseCotton Concentration Shed

Totals ...................................... 7,634

2 Vessels 66,299 35,085 301 Vessel 53,500 23,190 552 Vessels 35,930 46,031 602 Vessels 60,827 27,841 731 Vessel 3,680 ..2 Vessels 59,340 16,0001 Vessel 72,700 28,338 611 Vessel 66,660 29,160 651 Vessel 95,644 29,260 601 Vessel 91,156 32,500 571 Vessel 49,040 261 Vessel 65,640 21,830 481 Vessel 86,836 10,000 301 Vessel 32,295 2(/

201,20~ .......... 82277,163 ....... 150

18 Vessels 1,232,898 384,250

*Equipped with 17,000 cu. ft. refrigerated space.

MaterialWharf Shed

Creosoted Pile ConcreteConcrete WoodConcrete SteelConcrete ConcreteWood OpenWood Y~ oodConcrete ~teelConcrete Co ,creteConcrete Concrete an( SteelConcrete Concrete and SteelConcrete Grain BerthConcrete (Also Grain Berth) C,,ncreteConcrete (Also Grain Berth) SteelWood None

ConcreteWood

817_ : .: = : . :

Private WharvesBerthing

Wharf Owned By Length Capacity

Armour Fertilizer Works .............................. 150 Ft. 1 Vessel

Houston Wharf Co ......................................... 3,428Ship Channel Compress Company ............................... 800Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc ....................... 40Magnolia Petroleum Company 73’6"Lone Star Cement Corporation ................................................. 387Arrow Mills, Inc. (Formerly Houston Milling Co.,

Inc.- (Using Manchester Wharf) ................................. 500Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co .................................. 400Southern Pacific Lines (Clinton Dock) .................................. 1,250Gulf Portland Cement Company ......................................... 200Eastern States Petroleum Co., Ine ....................................... 500Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. 6Eastern States Petroleum Co., Inc. 16Manchester Terminal Corporation ............................ 1,600Coastal Oil & Transport Co. (Leased to Humble

Oil & Refining Company) ..................................... 150Gulf Oil Corporation ........................................................... 590Sinclair Refining Company ............................................... 1,400

General American Tank Storage Terminals ............. 600Houston Lighting & Power Co. 24The Texas Company ............................... i .....i ....................... 1,400Champion Paper & Fibre Co ....................................... 200

Ft. 8 VesselsFt. 2 VesselsFt. 2 Barges

1 VesselFt. 2 Barges

Ft. 1 VesselFt. 1 VesselFt. (Slip) 3 VesselsFt. 2 BargesFt. 1 VesselFt.Ft.Ft. 4 Vessels

Ft. 1 VesselFt. 1 VesselFt. 3 Vessels

Ft. 1 VesselFt. 1 BargeFt. 3 VesselsFt. 1 Light

DraftVessel

Ft. 1 VesselFt. 4 BargesFt. 1 VesselFt. 1 VesselFt. 1 VesselFt. 1 Vessel

Ft. 5 VesselsFt. (Slip) 4 VesselsFt. (Slip) 3 VesselsFt. 1 VesselFt. 4 VesselsFt. 5 Barges

Crown-Central Petroleum Corp ........................................... 150American Republics Corp. (Barge Wharf) ........................ 40American Republics Corp. (Oil Wharf) .......................... 150Southern Acid & Sulphur Co. (2 Docks) ....................... 143

153Sheffield Steel Corporation .......................................... 480

United States Maritime Commission(War Assets Administration) ....................................... 2,600

Shell Oil Company, Ine ............................................. 2,60.0San Jaeinto Ordnance Depot ............................................... 1,500Gulf Refining Co. (Houston Pipe Line Division) ............... 200Humble Oil & Refining Co .................................................. 1,400Houston Barge Terminal (Shipside Contracting Co.)* ....... 900

Type of Wharf and Use

Creosoted timber fitted with hopper and conveyorfor fertilizer.Concrete; Apron tracks; Cotton and general cargo.Concrete; Cotton and miscellaneous cargo.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Creosoted piling and clusters; Gasoline wharf.Creosoted piling and clusters; Barge wharf.

Grain loading and unloading berth for elevator.Creosoted piling; Handling steel products.Concrete; General cargo.Timber Bulkhead Wharf; Unloading Clay, Shell.Creosoted piling and clusters; Oil wharf.Fire dock; wood piling.Barge dock; wood piling.Concrete; Apron track; Cotton and general cargo.

Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Steel bulkhead, pile clusters; Oil wharf.Concrete and creosoted piling; Oil pipe lines andcase goods.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Steel bulkhead; Oil wharf.

Barges, etc., creosoted piling,steel decking; Paper, Pulp, Salt, Caustic.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.(Barges only); creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf..Creosoted timbers and piling withconcrete deck; Bulk cargo dock.Steel sheet piling backfilled; Handling ofincoming material and shipment of steel products.

Steel bulkhead fitting out berths.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Concrete; Cargo shed.Creosoted piling; Oil wharf.Concrete piling; Oil wharf.(Barges only); General cargo.

Totals 24,081 Ft. 54 Vessels16 Barges

*Located on Upper Channel about 21~ miles above Turning Basin.


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SOUTH PORTS FORWARDING CO.FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS

SERVING THE PORT OF HOUSTON

202 Scanlan Bldg. Tel. Preston 0784Houston 2, Texas Cable Address "SOPO"

Port of HoustonTariff

Operations on the rail-water terminals in the Port of

Houston are carried on under the provisions of tariff

published by the Navigation District, which tariff is con-

curred in generally by the three private terminal corn-panies operating for hire. This tariff contains twelve

sections, as follows:

SECTION ONE

SECTION TWO

SECTION THREE

SECTION FOUR

SECTION FIVE

SECTION SIX

SECTION SEVEN

SECTION EIGHT

SECTION NINE

SECTION TEN

SECTION ELEVEN

SECTION TWELVE

Preliminary

Regulations Governing Use ofWaterways

Regulations Governing Use ofFacilities

Dockage

Shed Hire

Wharfage

Free Time and Penalty

Freight Handling Machinery

Miscellaneous Charges

Vegetable Oil Handling Plant

Houston Public Grain Elevator

Loading and Unloading

The Port of Houston contains four active terminals solicit-

ing and handling public freight and operating for hire,

as listed herewith:-

THE NAVIGATION DISTRICT

Owns and controls eighteen berths

GULF ATLANTIC WAREHOUSE CO.

"Long Reach Docks"--Houston Wharf Co.Have eight berths

MANCHESTER TERMINAL CORPORATION

Have four ship’s berths

SHIP CHANNEL COMPRESS COMPANY

(Sprunts Docks)Have two ship’s berths

The tariff and all supplements governing terminal opera-

tions in the port may be secured by interested partieswriting Navigation District, P. O. Box 9337, Houston 11,

Texas.

INDEX TO

ADVERTISEMENTS

PageA

American General Fire Insurance Company ..... 61Anderson, Clayton 6; Co .................... 1GArrow Mills. lnc ........................... 14Atlantic, Gulf 6; Pacific Company ...... 2

BBloomfield Steamship Company ............. 6Burlington Lines ..... 1

CChampion Paper & Fibre Company, The .... 10Coyle Lines ............... letCrown Central Petroleum Corporation 57

EEsperson Industrial Corporation 57

FFowler 6" McVitie ............ 12

GGeneral American Tank Storage Terminals ........ 5Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co ................. 18Gulf Oil Corporation ................................... 6

HHarrisburg Machine Company, Inc ..................... 12Houston Foundry 6" Machine Co ...... 57Houston Industrial Gas Co ........................... 4Houston Lighting 6; Power Company Cover 3Houston Pilots ................ 4Houston Pipe Line Company ................... 13Houston Towing Company .... 14Humble Oil 6; Refining Company ...... 44

1Intracoastal Towing 6; Transportation Company . 6

LLayne-Texas Co., Ltd., The .... 52Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co., Inc. 58Lykes Bros. Steamship Company, Inc. Cover 4

MManchester Terminal Corporation 4Merritt-Chapman 6, Scott Corporation ...... 45Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines .... 60Missouri Pacific Lines .......................... 3

NNational Bank ot Commerce of Houston .... Cover 2Newtex Steamship Corporation . 59Norris, W. H., Lumber Company ............. 58

PPatrick Transfer 6" Storage Company ......... 8Peden Iron 6" Steel Co .... 14

RReichardt Electric Co. 58Rice, Thomas, d~ Company, Inc ........... 10River Terminals Corporation ........... 42Rock Island Lines ............... 17

SSan Jacinto Inn ..................... 20Santa Fe System Lines ........... 15Second Nalional Bank of Houston, The ....................... 9Shef’ield Steel Corporation . 58Shell Oil Company, Incorporated ....... 8South Ports Forwarding Co ...... 64Southern Compress 6" Warehouse Co ...... 61Southern Pacific Lines ............ 7States Marine Corporation ................................. 8Strachan Shipping Company ................. 2

TTexas Shipbuilding Company ........... 2Texas Transport 6; Terminal Company. Inc ............... 55Todd Shipyards Corporation ......... 11

UUnited Gas ................ 12

WWarren Company, Inc., The .................................... 58Western Wood Products .................................... 19


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