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December, 1926 MARINE REVIEW 27 Public Owned Wharves at Port Houston Covered Open Railr oad Berthing Area Area Car Material Wharf Length Ft. Capacity Sa. Ft Sa. Ft. Storage Wharf Shed fs 2 Vessels 62,875 26,750 83 Creosoted Pile Concrete 1 Vessel 538,500 23,190 55 Concrete Wood 2 Vessels 15,140 9,349 23 Concrete Wood 2 Vessels 60,827 27,841 73 Concrete Concrete TRSVieSBEl ice soc oes rats innecees 4,514 8 Wood 2 Vessels 74,166 20,514 32 Wood Wood TeWiespel yee xiii ee cceteweeses 118,000 109 Concrete Open 1 Vessel 66,660 29,160 65 Concrete Concrete 1 Vessel 65,909 29,260 60 Concrete Concrete 1 Vessel 62,176 32,500 57 Concrete Concrete TAWieRSeleie tec nas sceneeens No. Deck Concrete Pile Grain Berth 1 Vessel 86,836 17,164 30 Concrete Steel D'stribution Warehouse ——_____etsanasecnseesseee QOL 208 ye oii We earewnecs ce 82 Concrete Yotton Concentration ‘Shed —=—_———___vascescesnsenssens QUT G Bike cocl: woes aasastanen 150 Wood Totals) iaicvannicte. 6,789 16 Vessels 1,026,45 338,242 827 assembling plants, cotton compresses and terminals have been located at various points along the channel, many of which have provided themselves with splendid wharves equipped to handle all kinds of cargo in the most efficient manner. Cotton and oil are the principal commodities exported. During the year 1925 a total of 1,918,314 bales of cotton were shipped out of the port, while several million tons of crude and refined oils were imported and exported. Cotton seed cake and meal, rice, flour, sugar, coffee, bones, scrap, steel rails and structural steel, canned goods, shingles, lumber and various other articles were handled over the public and private wharves to the extent of 9,747,122 tons dur- ing 1925, as compared with 1,210,204 tons during the year 1920. With the completion of the public grain elevator in June of this year, Houston entered the grain export- ing trade and Sept. 1 had handled over two and a half million bushels of wheat. The elevator, designed by the John S. Metcalf Co., Chicago, and built by the Fegles Construction Co., Minneapolis, is considered the most modern plant of its type. It is equipped with the latest elevating ma- chinery driven by individual electric motors and with an Ottumwa. box car loader, which tilts the car of grain endways and sideways and un- loads it in about eight or nine min- utes, while delivery can be made to steamships at the rate of thirty to thirty-five thousand bushels per hour. Service to and from the port is ren- dered by 52 steamship lines handling general cargo and passengers to all parts of the world. Fifteen tank lines handle the cargoes from the refiner- ies to Gulf, North Altantic and Euro- pean ports. It will be noted that most of the public wharves are built of concrete with -concrete transit sheds, and in several instances with shipside apron tracks. : Portable and fixed conveyors are provided on several of the wharves to facilitate the handling of cargo from shipside to the rear of the shed, and at wharf No. 4 to carry cargo to and from the transit shed above and (Continued on Page 62) FREIGHT IN TRANSIT AT THE PORT OF HOUSTON TO POINTS IN TEXAS, LO MEXICO, COLORADO AND ARIZONA UISIANA, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, NEW