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The Rail-Water Terminal ProblemTwo years and more since the war, and the economists

tell us that we may expect 16 Billions exports and 9 Billionsimports by value per year. Averill Harriman’s admirablearticle in a recent magazine outlined the needs for imports andtheir importance to our country.

Simultaneously, many anxious inquiries are addressed tothe port administrators--can the ports handle such a volumeeconomically?

The answer is YES. We must handle them to demon-strate the value of the ports, especially the vast public invest-ment in them. This public investment may not have alwaysbeen efficiently managed over the nation, but if ever therewas a time to demonstrate the justification for such invest-ment, now is that time.

Some ports may not rise to the problem, because pastpolicy may have sewed up the facilities by lease or specialprivileges of storage and non-transit use. These must hastento rectify such mistakes. Some port properties have been builtwith public money and are depreciated and obsolete, and yetthe bonds must be met and interest paid. These ports haveno funds for improvements. It is good for the nation’seconomy that all ports are not so handicapped.

A brief resume of the past 25 years of the ports’ prob-lena will suffice to point out the errors. In the thirtiesscrap iron moved in a rush and in big volume, but someports, to get perhaps more than their share, cut the wharfagecharge to 20 cents per ton, and less. What is the result?Badly misused wharves and equipment and not a dime forreplacement, because the income was less than half thevalue of the service rendered.

Freight charges which do not include the terminal allow-ances induce shippers to force competitively low rates on theports.

It is a fact, easily demonstrable, that the average of thewharves in our country did not earn a dime over the averageof the last 25 years. Investigations are on and searches forrelief being made--some even think the Government shouldsubsidize docks, as they have subsidized ships. The writerof this editorial is not one of this group and can point withpride to the 17 ).ears effort to secure remunerative terminalcharges.

It is plain foolishness to handle a ton of freight andlose money on labor and on wear and tear. The charge forhandling should cover the cost and the charge for wharfageshould cover the property upkeep. How else can you justifythe public investment?

There is a considerable group which carelessly advocatethat every dollar of public money spent brings in an in-direct return, but in all the writer’s years study of this item hehas failed to find it a fact, and it is no proper argumentfor loose practices and special privileges. The little taxpayerin a remote corner of Harris County has a hard time under-

standing his tax bill for Navigation District purposes, whenhe wades through mud to get to town. For the writer’spart he has never let him down by spending a dime onhandling or allowing excess wear and tear not paid for bythe users of the public facility.

So, the Navigation District finds itself in a positionwhere it has funds, has a fine facility, open to all alike,and in a position to exceed previous tonnage handling per-formances.

Building docks at prices 3 to 1 too high is not good forthe little or the big taxpayer, so the rail-water terminals mustincrease efficiency, reduce free time, and speed up loadingand unloading cars and ships. Cars are scarce. What sensedoes it make to refuse to pay for unloading on Saturdays andSundays? Trying to operate a port 40 hours a week, whensuch a volume of business as now offers, is plain foolishness.Ships and cars are now so valuable that they must be turnedover rapidly to avoid higher costs. Better labor and bettermanagement is now a Number One requirement.

A lot of progress has been made in the port administra-tion problem. The writer unqualifiedly credits the AmericanAssociation of Port Authorities with having contributed tosuch improvement by the fearless exchange of views of prob-lems, of contracts, of practices, and all the functions ofthe ports.

There are now no accredited port managers known tothe writer who advocate public subsidy, except those whomay have inherited such a mess of special privilege that theyare unable to rectify the operations. There are some of suchtypes, but not many. We have such variations in rail ratestructures, port practices, and terminal usages as to makeeach port an individual problem. Some ports permit somemonopolies to charge excessively, while the public docks arefree, or nearly so. These ports are busy explaining and mak-ing a lot of noise about other and less important matters.

Here in Houston, a fair policy exists, fostered by theNavigation District. Free and private enterprise at its bestis evident at the rail-water terminals, privately owned andfor hire. So the writer feels sure that Houston will make agreat after-the-war-record of a larger tonnage efficientlyhandled. A lot of funds have been invested in port es-sentials behind the docks which are bound to tell in thelong, hard pull of competition.

Putting two tons over a dock, where only one wentbefore, is possible and is being strived for. [t will requirethe ardent support of every agency involved.

General Manager


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"Advertising Houston to the World"

Houston

Officiul Publicution of the Hurris County Houston Ship Chunnel Nuvigution District

HOUSTON, TEXAS

VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE MAY, 1947 NUMBER ONE

FOREWORDTHE HOUSTON PORT Book is pub-

lished in May and November of each

year under contract and authority ofthe Navigation and Canal Commissionand through the cooperation of the ship-ping and industrial interests of Houston.

Its purpose is to inform shippers andall others interested in the Port ofHouston of its development, charges andother matters of interest, and inquirieswill at all times be welcome.

Address the General Manager, CivilCourts Building, Houston, Texas.

As the official magazine of the HarrisCounty Navigation District, this publica-tion is intended to carry authoritativedescriptions, notices and articles in re-

gard to the activities of the port and theport development. However, the Com-

missioners cannot be responsible in allrespects for the contents thereof, or forthe opinions of writers to which expres-sion is given.

The publication is distributed free tomaritime, transportation and industrialinterests in the United States and foreigncountries

Additional copies of this publicationmay be had upon application to theGeneral Manager, Civil Courts Building,Houston, Texas, or to any of the ad-vertisers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

The General Manager’s Page--The Rail-Water Terminal Proklcm 11Map of Turning Basin Showing Location of Public Wharves and Elevator 14Directory of Port Officials ......... 15Administration of the Port ............ 15Directory of Maritime Interests and Foreign Consulates . 16Navigation Board Chairman Submits Report ..... 17Houston, Kansas City Forge New Foreign Trade Link .... By MAx .IACOBS 19Annual Report Houston Cotton Exchange and Board

of Trade ............. By HARMON ~!tilTTINGTON 21Business Barometer of Houston ....... 22Oil Through the Port of Houston ...... 23Comparative Standing of Texas Ports ............. 24The National Importance of Coastwise Shipping By M. J. l:l~.t.:( FtlE 25Building Permits ................... 26The Transmutation of Rice Harvest Methods B~ J. F. COLL~P, 27The Interest of Banks In the Development of Houston’s

Foreign. Trade ........... B~ I.. R. BRYAN, .Jl<. 29Industrial Map of the Port of Houston .... 30-31A Directory of the Houston Chamber of Commerce 32Water Front Pulse of Great Houston--The Port of Houston By EI,IA TAI~BH~L 33Privately Owned Terminal and Industrial Facilities 45Houston Ranks as a Major Port of the United States 48A Detailed Description of the Port 49Houston Steamship Services:

Foreign Services ..... 5 lTanker Lines ........... ~ 2Intercoastal Services ...... 53Coastwise Services ................ 53lntracoastal Canal Services 54

Public Wharves--A l)e/ailcd Description 55Private Wharves--A Dr/ailed Dcscri/;tion 55Tariff of the Port of Houston 56Channel Pilotage and Charges . 57Tug Boat Tariff For Houston Ship Channel ....... 57Charges for Mooring and Unmooring Vessels . 57Port Pictures ............ By J. RussEt.l. WAIT 5 ~q

Index to Advertisements ......................... 59


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MAP OF TURNING BASIN SHOWING LOCATION OF PUBLIC WHARVES AND ELEVATOR

Directory of Port Officials

R. Dow ERNSTSEWALL MYER

j. RUSSELL WAIT, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, General SuperintendentW. E. JEsup, Executive Assistant

Board of CommissionersWILSON G. SAVILLE, Chairman

L. G. SANDERSW. L. WALKER

Executive OfficersW. L. FELLRATH, Supt. Grain Elevator Dept.

W. F. LAND, Terminal SuperintendentG. P. SIMPSON, Chief Construction Engineer

OFFICE--FIFTH FLOOR CIVIL COURTS BUILDING, HOUSTON 2, TEXASTelephone Preston 3241

PortGENERAL MANAGER J. RUSSELL WAIT

Executile Office: Civil Courts Building Preston 5241Residence Telephone Madison 2-7556

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT VERNON BAILEYResidence Telephone Wydown 9-1702

TERMINAL SUPERINTENDENT W.F. LANDGeneral Office: Rear Wharf 10Telephone Wentworth 3-1687

Residence Telephone Madison 2-4010

SUPT. GRAIN ELEVATOR DEPT. W.L. FELLRATti

Office: Wharf 14 Woodcrest 6-1708

SIMMONS, SMYTH & MUCH,

CounselH. L. WASHnURN, Auditor

OfficialsHARBOR PATROL OFFICER ............. Louis O. DESHAZO

Telephone Wentworth 5-I 859CAPTAIN OF INSPECTION BOAT ............. R. E. SHOOK

Telephone Wentworth 3-I 859FIRE BOAT "PORT HOUSTON"

Telephone Preston 2325 Station 21HOUSTON PORT AND TRAFFIC BUREAU

H. B. CUMMINS, Manager Traffic DepartmentCotton Exchange Building, Telephone Preston 0552

J. RUSSELL WAIT, Chairman Executive CommitteeCivil Courts Building, Telephone Preston ~ 241

Administration of the PortThe Port of Houston is operated by the Navigation and Canal

Commission of five members, serving without pay, who areappointed two by the City and two by County Commissioners andthe Chairman by the City and County Commissioners in joint ses-sion. These Commissioners serve for a period of two years, the termsexpiring alternate years.

This Board of Commissioners appoints, as executive in chargeof the affairs of the Board, a General Manager and Director ofthe Port, who supervises all of the work and activities of theNavigation District and has general direction of the affairs of theNavigation District. The Navigation District includes all ofHarris County.

The Board, through its General Manager, cooperates with theUnited States Government in the construction and improvement ofthe waterway which is known as the Houston Ship Channel. TheBoard has constructed a railroad which is jointly operated by all ofthe rail carriers of Texas, and which is extended by the Board tothose areas not served by other rail carriers.

The Board has constructed and owns and operates publiclyowned rail-water terminal facilities in and about the TurningBasin. These consist of modern transit sheds, wharf apron tracks,and equipment.

The Board performs its own carloading and car unloading.The Board also operates a modern 3,500,000 bushel capacity GrainElevator which is equipped with two car dumpers and has acapacity of 80,000 bushels per hour to vessels.

The Board, operating as the Navigation, Canal and PilotCommissioners, appoints the Houston Pilots and fixes the rulesand regulations under which they operate.

The Port of Houston as i~ is operating in competition withother ports consists of approximately 50 percent privately ownedand 50 percent publicly owned terminals for hire, and the Boardpublishes the Tariff which governs all of the activities on its

own facilities and, in general, these private terminals for hireconcur wholeheartedly in this policy of the Board.

All construction on the navigable waters of the NavigationDistrict is subject to the jurisdiction of the Board and, beforeconstruction can be undertaken, it is necessary to have properpermit from the Board and the United States Engineers. Ingeneral the Board does not regulate or control operations onprivate facilities after they are constructed.

The Board has plans for improvements at Morgan’s Point,has committed its funds up to $1,250,00(1.00 for the constructionof two tunnels, which tunnels are to be so located as to assurethe removal of all ferries, and these tunnels are to be toll-free.

The Board’s ownership of waterfrontage 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 anddixes the transportation costs and practices which are so importantin the operation of a world port such as t~[ouston 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.


Directory of Maritime Interestsand Foreign Consulates

United States ServicesCORPS OF ENGINEERS

Engineer Officials in Chaxge of the Construction and Main-tenance of the Houston Strip Channel:

COL. D. W. GRIFFITHS, Corps of EngineersDistrict Engineer, Galveston ............................... Tel. 2-8621

W. W. VANCE, Corps of Engineers, Director,Operations Division, Galveston ............................. Tel. 2-8621

C. M. WOOD, Resident Engineer in Charge,Harrishurg Field Office ................................. Wayside 1583

C. F. BAEfIR, Assistant Reside’nt Eugin~,(, "Wayside 1583

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, DISTRICT No. 22... FRED C. PABSTOffice: Custom House, Galveston, Texas .......................... Tel. 7464Houston Office: 413 Federal Office Building ................... Preston 5194

DEPUTY COLLECTOR IN CHARGE ........ JAMES M. JEFFERISOffice: 411 Federal Office Building ........................... Preston 5194BARGE OFFICE: V. S. Appraiser’s Stores Building

7300 Wingate Street ................................. Woodcrest 6-3435CtIIEF INSPECTOR: .......................... E. C. WALTERS

U. S. Appraiser’s Stores Building, 7300 Wingate Street Woodcrest 6-3435

MiscellaneousHOUSTON PILOTS

1524-25 Nie’.s Esperson Building ............................. Capitol 0451

HOUSTON MARITIME ASSOCIATIONC. B. Fox, President; MRS. LOUISE M. HOLLUB, Secretary

226 Cotton Exchange Building ............................ Preston 5517THE PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES

PORT OF HOUSTON

J. E. GOUGH, Preside~tPort Houston Iron Works ...................... Woodcre~t 6-961H

R. G. ESTERLEIN, Sec~etary a~d Treas~trer1314 W. B~dl ................................... Jackson 2-3332

BOARD OF UNI)ERWRITERS OF NEW YORKCAPT. R. L. \VYNNE, Corre.~po~dent a~t(1 ~%trce!/or Capitol 1391

Foreign ConsulatesARGENTINA: T. L. EVANS, Vice-Cons~d

1526 Commerce Building ...................................... Capitol 1~I 1

BELGIUM: R. C. PATTERSON, Hotl. Cotls~tl1~16 Second National Bank Bldg .............................. Fl’eston i434

BRAZIL: EDISON RAMOS NOGUEIRA, Caree~’ Co~ts~tlA. J. BESFRRA DE MENEZES~ Career Vice Cotts/tl

CUSTOMS APPRAISER’S STORES R.E. THOMSON/ 1511 Commerce Building ................................ Charter 4-41!’5U. S. Appraiser’s Stores Building. 7300 Wingate Street .... Wayside 22.97,J CHILE: U. DE YBARRONI)O, Cotts ll(Ir :|getlt

BAYTOWN OFFICE: Bayto~¢~tt ARTHUR B. PIGEONNE 8th l.’looc Commerce Bhbz ..................................... Preston 5111

CUSTOMS AGENT IN CHARGE ALVIN F. SCHARFFSuit,e: 906 Federal Office Buil(lln~ ............................ Fairfax 5341

NAVYTHE SUPERVISING INSPECTOR OF NAVAL MATERIAL

CHINA: SIEN-YUNG YU, Career Cons~dSTEPItEN C. H. \¥ANG, Caret;" I)ep~t!t Cons~d

714 Richmond (6) ...................................... Jackson 2-1177

COLOMBIA: Luis RODRIGUEZ, ActS~g Cons~d3717 Audubon 1t11 ......................................... Keystone 3-3863

COSTA RICA: CARL G. STEARNS, H’,)?l. Co?/sll~CAPT. T. O. CULLINS, U.S.N. / State National Bank Bldg ..................................... Preston 11111

Fed(,z’al Office I3uildina ................................ Ch:tl’ter 1-~)3S~ CUBA: JosE TARRIDA, Cai’e~,r CoTlsld*~ Lykes Bros. Steamshil) Co.

COAST GUARD Cotton Exchan~re Bhl~ ........................................ Preston 7211

Captain of the Port of Ho~tston, Texas, a~d Officer in Charge /CZECHOSI~OVAKIA: I)R. CHARLES Z. HOLLUB, Hot~. Cotl,~lof Marine Lzspection: ~/

711 M~dical Arts Building ................................... PresiDE 2555

COMDR. LEO A. !,VELSH, U.S.C.G.R. CIIARLES R. HRI)LICKA, l)ep,.~ty Co~.~d7300 Wingat( ................................ Woodcrest 6-9l~G

Shipping CommissionerLT. COMDR. JOSEPH B. CARSKADON, U.S.C.G.R.

7300 Wingate ...................................... Wayside 50)lJ

U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE RELIEF STATIONMEI)ICAL I)fRECTOR L. O. WFLI/ON, USPHS

Medical Officer i~ ChargeRoom 216, Apl)raisers Stores Building.7300 Wingate Avenue ............................. Wayside 5424

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBUREAU OF THE CENSUS

BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCEOFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADEOFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS

WARREN G. BROWN, District ManagerOffice: 61t2 Federal Office Building .................. Capitol 7201

WEATHER BUREAU ........................... E. i. FARRELLOffice: 10(12 Federal Office Building ...................... Capitol 6919

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREBUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRYINTERNATIONAL INSPECTION ~ QUARANTINE DIVISIONDAVID H. EVERETT, Inspector

Office: 907 Federal Office Building ...................... Fairfax 3000Waterfront Office: Room 204.U. S. Appraiset"s Stores Buihling ........................ Ways!de g178Residence ............................................ Keystone 3-6052

BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINEDivision of Foreign Plant Quarantine

H. C. MILLENDER, Inspector in ChargeO. D. MORRIS, InspectorOLEN H. HUNT, Inspector

206-7-8 U. S. Appraiser’s Stores Building7300 Wingate Street ................................. Woodcrest 6-7880

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICEL. D. CROSSMAN, Officer in Charge

Office: 520 Feder.al Office Building .................... Charter4-5626

3020 Gulf Building ................................ Charter 4-6711

DENMARK: DR. A. C. MADSEN, Vice-Coursed7444 Harrisburg lllvd. (1I) and 1M0 Milam St. (3~ ............ Fairfax 51;/5

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: T. L. EVANS, Vice-Coursed1526 Commt!rce Building ...................................... Capitol 18ll

ECUAI)OR: HFRNAN PALLARFS, Career Co~s~[537 First National Bank Bldg ................................. Preston 6541

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GREAT BRITAIN: MAJOR L. B. I)UFTON, Aeti~g Cor~sul GeneralCOMDR. CHARLES M. CREE, Vice Cot~sttl

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Navigation Board Chairman

Submits ReportThe Navigation BoardHouston, Harris County, Texas

Gentlemen:

To the members of the County Commissioners Court and theCity Council, who jointly constitute the Navigation Board, I sub-mit herewith the General Manager’s detailed report on the opera-tion of the Navigation District for the calendar year 1946.

Of the five members of the Port Commission, three came onthe Board in July and August, 1946. Of necessity, it requiredtime for the new members to familiarize themselves with theproblems pertaining to the Port.

We found the affairs of the Navigation District to be mosteconomically and efficiently managed under sound operating policies.The properties of the Navigation District which are carried on thebooks at approximately $15,000,000 (but are worth considerablymore than that figure) operated in 1946 at an expense of ap-proximately $1,000,000 and produced an income of approximately$1,500,000. This operating revenue of nearly one-half million dol-lars is available for Capital Improvements.

We found the finances of the Navigation District in soundcondition with a bonded debt of approximately $8,000,000. Theinterest payments and retirement of this debt is handled out ofcounty taxes. We found approximately $3,500,000.00 ~nencum-bered and available for new construction and improvement of theNavigation District properties.

We found a considerable amount of deferred maintenance onthe Port properties, which had accumulated largely during the waryears, and a need for additional docks. Our major constructionprogram for modernizing old docks and building new ones, whichwe planned to start in the lat:er part of 1946, had to be deferreduntil 1947 on account of unstable conditions in the constructionfield. At the present writing we think that these conditions havestabilized to the point where we can start this construction programin a matter of days.

While our construction program was suspended, we followeda liberal policy in improving and modernizing our cargo-handlingfacilities and our railroad properties serving the Port. In 1946,a good start was made in this direction and at this writing wehave committed approximately $800,000 on such items. We feelthat this expenditure has materially improved the technical effi-ciency of the Navigation District properties.

We found that the Ship Channel had developed severalshoaled reaches as a result of the U. S. Engineer Department de-ferring their maintenance dredging. As a result of our earnestrepresentations, we have obtained a commitment from this agencyto do a complete maintenance dredging job on the channel at acost to the Government of approximately $1,250,000. This workis now in progress.

We requested the Government to release to us for commercialuses at least a part of the Ship Channel frontages which had beenpreempted for Government facilities during the war, principallyat the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot. So far we have met with nosuccess at all in obtaining the release of any water frontage atthe Ordnance Depot, but we are actively continuing our efforts toobtain the entire Todd Shipbuilding Yard for the expanding activi-ties of the Port.

After an exhaustive examination into the question of a ForeignTrade Zone, the Port Commission concluded that however de-

COL. WILSON G. SAVILLE

sirable a foreign trade zone might be, its establishment here was notpractical at this time for the reason that under existing Govern-ment regulations such a zone would preempt the use of one ship’sberth. This we could not afford because all our docks were beingused to capacity to handle the increased water-borne traffic mov..ing through the Port. The matter of establishing a foreign tradezone must wait until we can make availab!e the necessary facilitiesfor such a zone.

The Houston Port and Traffic Bureau, which is jointly sup-ported by the Port Commission and private enterprises, is anagency for furthering the interests of the Port. The budget of thisagency was increased threefold over the expenditures prevailingduring the war years and the activities of this bureau were ex-panded by the addition of a Publicity Bureau and the opening ofa Midwest Office at Kansas City. The ready response of businessmen to our request for increased financial support for this bureauwas extremely gratifying. We feel that the activities of this Bureaucan and should be further expanded as soon as we can get ourPort facilities in shape to handle more business efficiently.

Your present Board realizes fully the importance of the Portto this community and appreciates the great public interest in the

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Port. We propose to give as widespread publicity as possible to itsaffairs and in keeping with that policy this Annual Report is beingsent to you.

Yours very truly,

WILSON G. SAVILLEChairman, Harris County HoustonShip Channel Navigation District.

SEWALL MYER

SEWALL MYER NEW MEMBER OFHOUSTON PORT COMMISSION

Sewall Iviyer, Houston attorney, has been named a member ofthe Navigation District Board, succeeding W. W. Strong as one ofthe two County members. The appointment was effective May 14.

Mr. Myer, who has lived in Houston since 1906, is generalattorney for the Texas State Federation of Labor. He was for manyyears associated with development of the Port of Houston andduring his term as city attorney during an earlier term of MayorOscar F. Holcombe, helped to prepare the bill which createdthe Houston-Harris County Navigation District.

The new commissioner recalls the colorful christening of theHouston ship channel on Nov. 10, 1914, after the channel hadbeen dredged at a cost of $2,412,595. That improvement gavethe channel a depth of 25. feet over a minimum bottom width of100 feet.

One feature of the ceremony was the dropping of a wreathby Mrs. Norman Pillot (then Miss Sue Campbell) into the watersof the Turning Basin. As a law partner of Mayor Ben Campbell,Mrs. Pillot’s father, Mr. Myer was one of the chosen few aboardthe yacht from which the wreath of flowers was dropped.

On that memorable day President Roosevelt, by remote con-trol, fired a cannon to signal the official opening of the Port ofHouston, a 21-gun salute was fired by the U. S. Revenue Cut:erWindom, gay pennants waved from assorted craft in the basinand channel and throngs lining the banks cheered lustily.

FOUR NEW WHARVES TO ADDTO PORT’S CAPACITY

Construction of three new wharves, rehabilitation of a fourthand widening of the ship channel to 500 feet in the vicinity of

these facilities will get under way at the Port of Houston soon.Port Director J. Russell Wait has announced that work will beginas soon as satisfactory bids are obtained.

The Port Commission was to consider bids at a meeting May 16and launching of the work was also dependent on the Com-mission’s ability to buy property in the Turning Basin for thenew docks. If the desired property cannot be acquired on reasonableterms, Mr. Wait said, an alternative plan has been prepared forconstruction of two new supplementary wharves on sites justbelow the Turning Basin channel neck.

These supplementary wharves would be 600 feet in length, onean open air type and the other with a storage shed of 100,000square feet area. The channel will be widened from 400 to 500feet in this area with a deep waterline at dockside.

Wharf No. 4 on the south side of the Turning Basin will berebuilt completely as a deep water dock with overhead access to awarehouse behind the dock. This wharf was damaged in the 1935flood and the subsequent necessity to support the structure withdredged material left only 16 feet water clearance.

In the rebuilding No. 4 wharf will have deep water. If asatisfactory deal can be made for adjacent property, a No. 5 wharfwill be built. These improvements, with recently acquired newloading machinery, will add greatly to the Port’s tonnage capacity.

CARGO OF BULKCOPRA ARRIVES

Houston’s first cargo of bulk copra, an ingredient of soap andshortening, was unloaded recently from the Berea Victory atDock 12.

Two new vacuum unloading machines which were recentlypurchased by the port commission for $40,000 each were put intoservice to pull the 1700 tons of dried coconut meat into box cars.

The Berea Victory picked up its cargo in the Philippine Islandsand it is ultimately destined for Procter & Gamble in Dallas.

Two more shipments of copra are scheduled to come throughthe Port of Houston. The Joseph I. Gemp will discharge 2000 tonsand the Stirlingville is due May 11 with 1000 tons.

LYKES .ANNOUNCES NEWSERVICE

Lykes Brothers Steamship Company has announced inaugura-tion of a monthly service between Liverpool and Houston.

Since termination of the war Lykes Brothers has maintainedregular outbound service from Houston to Liverpool, and theinbound service began early in April with arrival of a ship fromthe English port.

The Liverpool service is one of a number of regular inboundservices that Lykes Brothers is operating from European countries.Negotiations are underway for the establishment of still otherseryices from Europe.

FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENTESTABLISHED BY KATY ROAD

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines have established a ForeignFreight Traffic department which will undertake to develop ex-port and import trade through Texas ports. J. F. Hennessey, vicepresident in charge of traffic, announced that the new divisionwould be directed by R. C. Duffin who will maintain headquartersin St. Louis. J. L. Richardson of Dallas is assistant manager and H.L. Zimmerman is in charge of the export-import division at Hous-ton.

The new department will concentra.~e on development of for-eign traffic for Houston and other Texas ports, which are thenatural outlets for the territory served by the Katy, said T. L.Peeler, Houston, assistant to the president. The department willalso cooperate in movement of freight through other ports, headded.


Houston, Kansas City Forge

New Foreign Trade LinkBy MAX JACOBS

Two great cities, representing America’s new centers of worldtrade and industry--the Southwest and Middle West--renewedbonds of business and friendship when offices of the Houston Portand Traffic Bureau were formally opened in the Missouri metropolisApril 2. City officials and the Kansas City Chamber of Commercewelcomed and entertained a group of more than 30 Houston portofficials and civic and business leaders, headed by Mayor Oscar F.Holcombe, for observance of "Port of Houston Day."

Kansas City received the Texans with fine old Missourihospitality and there was not a dull moment from the moment theHouston delegation arrived at 8:30 a.m. in its special car on theRock Island Lines until they reluctantly said goodbye the sameevening.

They were met at the station by Mayor William E. Kemp;Kearney Wornall, president, and George W. Catts, executive man-ager of the Chamber of Commerce; Ralph L. Gray, president ofthe Sheffield Steel Corporation; Jim Hill, vice president of theRock Island Railroad; John Cooper, Chamber of Commerce vicepresident in charge of trade and industry.

Ten taxicabs hustled the visitors to Hotel Muehlbach for break-fast. Then came a visit to the Port and Traffic Bureau office inthe Board of Trade Building where the Houston delegation washost at an open house for Midwest business men.

A bus tour of the industrial district followed. After the Cham-ber of Commerce luncheon, the visitors were taken to the MidwestResearch Institute, viewed the Kansas City residential districts ona bus tour, were guests at a reception at the Kansas City Club.

The program ended with a dinner at the Muehlbach and mostof the visitors entrained for home at 9:15 p.m.

Before the Houston delegation departed from Kansas City,Mayor Holcombe invited Mayor Kemp, Mr. Woodall and Mr.Catts to open a trade office in Houston.

This possibility will be studied and given most serious con-sideration, they assured the Houston visitors. They also promisedthat a Kansas City delegation would soon pay a return visit toHouston.

The Kansas City branch of the Port and Traffic Bureau wasestablished under the direction of George K. Reeder to serve asa clearing house for information and freight service. The staff isequipped to give every assistance to Midwest shippers who havecargo moving in export or import trade through the Gulf ofMexico.

Mr. Reeder, who will work in close cooperation ’with Midwestcommercial and shipping interests, is an experienced shipping manwi:h a wide knowledge of the Port of Houston’s tributary tradearea.

In the Houston delegation were: Col. Wilson G. Saville, chair-man of the board of directors of the Houston Port and TrafficBureau, and chairman of the Navigation Commission; J. RussellWait, general manager of the Harris County Navigation District;C. E. Naylor, president of the Houston Chamber of Commerce;F. M. Law, chairman of the board of the First National Bank anda ~[irector of the Burlington Railroad; C. B. Fox, president of theMaritime Association; J. S. Burrows, a director of the Houston Portand Traffic Bureau and head of the Marine department of ~theHumble Oil & Refining company.


EN ROUTE TO KANSAS CITY ON A TRADE MISSION

C. E. NayJor, president of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor OscarF. Holcombe, chat aboard the Rock Island special car that took the Houstondelegation to Kansas City for "Port of Houston Day" in the Midwest metropolisApril 2. The trip cemented the friendly business relations of the two cities whichare natural trade allies.

Robert Rader, and J. M. Lykes, Jr., vice presidents of theLykes Brothers Steamship Company; John C. Mayfield, vice presi-dent of the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company; E. R. Brown,district representative of the Grace Line, Inc.; D. C. Haggart andT. W. Bowdry of the Burlington Railroad; Ray Stone of the StoneForwarding Company; J. E. Davies, vice president of the StatesMarine Corporation; T. L. Peeler, Jr. of the M-K-T Lines; T. W.Dunn of Manchester Terminal Corporation; Harry de Yberrando,manager of the foreign trade department of the Houston Cham-ber of Commerce; Sam A. Dunlap, vice president of Texas Trans-port & Terminal Company, Inc.

B. M. Bloomfield of the Bloomfield Steamship Company; L.R. Bryan Jr., director of the F. W. & D. C. Railroad; HowardBrooks and Frank O’Kane of the Rock Island Railroad; W. A.Smith, chairman of the board of the Citizen’s State Bank; E. C.Leutsch Jr., general manager of H. L. Ziegler, Inc.; W. H. Mahanof Mahan Motors; Murray G. Smyth, counsel for the NavigationDistrict Board; Magruder Wingfield, vice president of the NationalBank of Commerce, and Fisher G. Dorsey of Patrick ShipsideWarehouse.

Representatives were sent to Kansas City by R. F. Morfa ofDallas, board chairman of the M-K-T Railroad; J. D. Farringtonof Chicago, chief executive officer of the Rock Island Railroad,and Ralph Budd of Chicago, president of the Burlington Railroad.

Ever-expanding trade with the countries south of the borderis one of the chief factors forging bonds that link Kansas Cityand Houston, Mayor Holcombe told the several hundred Midwest

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PORT AND TRAFFIC BUREAU OFFICE OFFICIALLY OPENED

Col. Wilson G. Saville, chairman of the board of directors of the Houston Portand Traffic Bureau (left), and Kearney Wornoll (right), president of the KansasCity Chamber of Commerce, congratulate George K. Reeder, director of theKansas City branch of the Houston Port and Traffic Bureau, on the occasion ofthe formal opening April 2.

business men attending the luncheon meeting of the Kansas CityChamber of Commerce honoring the Houston delegation.

"Houston is the logical port of the great area of which KansasCity is the industrial and agricultural capital," the Mayor said."We are certain to see an ever greater volume of goods shipped toLatin-American countries from Kansas City through the Port ofHouston."

Mr. Wait told of Houston’s improved port facilities whichwill speed the flow of wheat and other products to overseas buyers.

"We have laid the foundations and have started on the steel~¢ork that will empty 180 to 200 hopper cars a day," he said. "Wehope to have the work completed by June 1, in time for this year’swheat crop. Grain, meat and machinery are the principal productsnow going through our port to foreign lands, especially to Southand Central America. Oil well machinery for Venezuela is a bigexport item while coffee is the most important import from Latin-America."

Mr. Wait reminded the audience that the Sheffield Steel Corpo-ration, with plants in both cities, is another important link be-tween Kansas City and Houston.

"The surplus exportable steel of Sheffield’s Houston plant isone of our biggest assets, acting as a magnet to attract steamshiplines to the port," he declared.

"This office we are opening in Kansas City is our first inthe Missouri Valley. We want everyone to learn how we can in-crease commerce between your city and the outside world and howHouston can better serve this area."

Col. Saville predicted that offices similar to the Kansas Citybranch of the Hous:on Port and Traffic Bureau would be openedin other Midwest and Southwest cities and in Latin America.

"The reception in Kansas City was so enthusiastic and en-couraging that we expect a great deal from the office," he de-clared. "We expect soon to see Houston receiving a larger share ofthe tremendous volume of shipping originating in Kansas City andthe surrounding territory.

"If this office lives up to expectations we will open others tokeep the cities where they are located reminded of Houston andits port facilities and to keep us reminded and informed of diffi-culties which shippers and importers face so we can be quick totake care of them."

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He pointed out that Kansas City is one of the nation’sgreat rail centers with 12 trunk lines, and handles, according toestimates of railroad traffic men, more than twice as much freightvolume as Houston.

Improved freight rates, marketing habits established by gov-ernment movement of grains and Port Houston’s prospects of addingmany bottoms to its constantly increasing shipping schedules com-bine to assure a bright future for the Kansas City office.

Grain movements hit peaks in the postwar era and now holdthird place in tonnage handled by the Port of Houston, exceededonly by petroleum and cotton. Other Midwest products which canchannel through Kansas City to Houston are cereals, grain products,packing house products such as lard, soap, canned and curedmeats, and hundreds of machinery items, including farm imple-ments.

In the cultivation of this rich market, Mr. Reeder’s staff willassist shippers and buyers on all problems of freight movement,warehouse facilities, shipping routes and schedules to foreign buyersand the countless details of packing and shipping to meet con-ditions at the seaport and beyond.

One of Kansas City’s advantages as a shipping center is thelocation there of the Midwest Research Institute which serves sixMidwest states in advancing regional commercial and industrialresearch.

In his address at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon, MayorHolcombe called the present opportunities for world trade "achallenge to the industry and commerce" of Kansas City.

"If we can find markets for the products of other parts of theworld here in the heart of America your industries will automati-cally build new markets abroad," the Mayor said. "Houston isthe gateway to worldwide markets for the output of Midwestfarms and factories which Kansas City can garner from its richsurrounding area."

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