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62 LOCOMOTIVE CRANES, A PART OF HOUS- TON’S WHARF EQUIPMENT Port Houston Grows (Continued from Page 27) across five railroad tracks into the large concrete warehouse with a floor space of over 200,000 square feet. Escalators for side port vessels are also provided on wharf No. 1 and No. 4, this type of equipment is also installed on the new Southern Pacific—Morgan Line terminal built at Clinton, three miles below the turning basin. Unloading Equipment A 20-ton electric tfaveling crane for handling heavy shipments to and from the warehouse and wharf, and for loading of cars, is also a part of the equipment of wharf No. 4. while locomotive eranes, cargo hoists and electric magnets are available for handling lumber, steel rails, scrap, etc., at various parts of the water- front. Vessels are loaded at Houston with MARINE REVIEW December, 1926 discharging cargo, thus saving many hours time. Coal bunkering facili- ties are provided by the Channel Fuel Co. at the Manchester wharf about two miles below the turning basin. Fresh water from artesian wells is provided to ships entering the port and as the channel is fed by Buffalo bayou and the San Jacinto river, as well as. other smaller’ tributary streams, the upper half of the water- way is in fresh water, which enables & HANDLING SUGAR FROM SHIP TO WAREHOUSE OVER PORTABLE AND FIXED CONVEYORS the greatest of dispatch by a trained corps of stevedores and _ longshore workmen, oil vessels seldom remain- ing in port more than 24 hours, and cotton carrying ships making a turn around, when necessary, with a cargo of fifteen to twenty thousand bales in two or three days. Oil bunkering facilities are pro- vided on the public wharves and at the Houston compress wharf, which is below the turning basin, where vessels can be bunkered while taking on and vessels to rid themselves of barnacles and other marine growth after a few days in port. Houston’s port is now equipped with the most modern fire boat in the United States, placed in commission last June. This vessel, the Port HOUSTON, is a diesel electric plant 125 feet 10 inches in length, 27 feet in beam and of 8 feet 6 inches draft, fitted with two 590 horsepower Winton diesel engines driving two large West- inghouse generators, with an auxiliary VESSEL LOADING WHEAT AT HOUSTON’S NEW PUBLIC MILLION BUSHEL GRAIN ELEVATOR