Port Arthur High School - Sea Gull Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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PORT ARTHUR The entire coast line of the United States is dotted with dozens, if not hundreds, of locations which, at one time or another, have been selected by ambitions and en thusiastic promoters us being the proper sites for new ports which, in the dreams of their promoters, were destined to rival and perhaps eclipse the older and already established shipping cities nf the country. Every coastal state, has its record of futile efforts at building new harbors. Very few states have any record of successful efforts at building new harbors within recent years. Without doubt the one great vxreption to this almost universal rule is the PORT of Port Arthur, Texas. This seaport was originally projected just as other promotion ports have been planned. I'nlike others of this nature, however, it has Succeeded in drawing to itself a volume of shipping and manufacturing which. plates it high among the ports of the entire Ameriean nation, in point of actual volume of commodities exported. In tons of exports. Port Arthur is now far ahead of Galveston. and practically equal with New Orleans. whieh two ports contend for the honor of being designated the second greatest port in the I'nited States. Port Arthur was founded twentnyive years ago. when Arthur E. StilwelL pro- moter and first president .ot' the Kansas City Southern Railway, huilt a railway due south from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico and found that Sabine Pass and its adjacent waters fm'med what must he the deop-wnter terminus of his rnad, In theory the Stilwell idea was goodithnt u suecossful railroad should he possible it built to connect a great freight originating paint like Kansas Fity with the nearest point mi deep Water. The Stiiwell idea. however. met many nhstncles when mi effort was made to secure and establish :h terminal site. The deer water of the Gulf of Mexim at that time did not extend inland more than two or three miles, up to the town of Sabine Pass and forms a channel from Sabine Lake to the Cult The owners of the land at and around the town of Suhiue Pass were unwilling to sell their property on terms which the Stilwell companies felt justified in accepting, and Mr. Stilweii. thereupon reversed the ancient fable regarding Mohnmot, and. us he could nnt take his town to deep water. he hrnnght deep water to his tnwn. A site was selected on the western shore of Lake Sabine. whioh is a shallow hotly of water about eight by thirty mile. and which is cmmeeted with the Gulf by the channel known as Swhhve Pass, about five miles in length. The site selected for Stilwell's town. whiPh he nemed in honor of himeolf. Port Arthur. was twelve miles inland from the Gulf. and at that time nine miles distant from the head of deen water in thine Pass. A site for n harhm' was selected nt n point where :1 small stream. known as Taylnr's hnyou. em- ptied into Lake Sai'ii'o. and u start was made dredging a ship Penal directly nerosh the lower rnd of the lake. from the month of Taylor's bayou t0 the head of deep water in Sabine Pass, INLAND CANAL T0 SABINE PASS Owners of property nt Sabine Pass ohjeeted tn thus losing the southern ter minus of the K. t'. S. Railway. and cummeuoed a vigorous uttaek in un effort In prevent dredging through the hike. An order was finally secured forhidding the furthel exf'avutimi of the mum in Lake Snlline. 21nd Stilwell was forced to turn from the lake to a route inside the $110113 0f the lake Here a strip of land was purchased and 1110 canal excavated. all inland. frnm the mouth of Taylor's bayou to the head of deep water in Sahine Pass. All this occupied two or thretI years' time .nml the canal was not completed to n twenty-five-foot depth until 1899. In the meantime, the finances of the K C. S. Railway had become involved, and a receivership and voting trust for the road resulted in ousting the Stilwoll regime and in killing off the enthusnsm of the railway management 21!, that time for - MWI 3: IWIIIIIIIIIIII 3m: :Imml 3: E E E3: Imgmmmrl Elwmig