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

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M mlmluumnul gmgw L 2 2 IiIIIIIWIIIIII i IIMIMHNIIIIEillllllllllllll gilmwmmI rim :2 developing a port at Port Ai'thurt Au export business had been commenced under considerable handicap, due to lack of harbor fac ties at first and later due to the managerial situation in the railway company. A pier was built in Luke Sabine, out to a six-foot Water depth, and cargoes were lightered from this pier t0 Yt'ssels lying in the stream at Sabine Pass, and there loaded. This commerce began in 1597, and for that year showed 11 little Over 87,000 tons of commodities. The following year a total of 238,000 tons was moved, and in 1899 a total of 327,000 tons. The next three years showed a steady recession from the 1899 total. and in 1901 the exports of the port had dropped to, 150,000 tons. L; L71 2:: L;A In the year 1901, however, the first of the numerous great Texas oil fields was discovered at Spindle Top, twenty miles from Port Arthur. The vxplm'utiun and re- fining companies Which at once interested themselves in the oil fields :111 made USO of Port Arthur as a shipping point for water movement of crude oil. and, later. of refined oil as well, and the tonnage figures of the port commeneed to mount rapidly With the year 1902, when the total showed 690,000 tons, a gain of 300 per mm over 1901. The next year the total had leaped t0 twide the preceding ,w-nris total, and tueio has been a steady and consistent gain yearly ever sine, until Port Arthur's 1920 mmmorce showed a total of over 8,000,000 tons of commuditit-s moved by water. ! I??? r H .94 g; ? The growth of the port's export shipping has been lly i'Qf'f'ltiPd in the 0X- pansinn of the oil refining industry at this place. The first refining plant erected was an experimental still of 300 Imrl'els cnpucty, built in the summer of 1901 by the Gulf Refining Company at the entrance of What now is the largest uii refining plant in the world, and with h daily output of close to 100.000 barrels of refined products. The Texas Company refinery has also grown tremendously. and its daily production is far in excess of 70,000 barrels of refined oili V A m 9 $111 7 L '1 El g LT: $7 r 7.;' The City has been handicapped to some extent in ith'uctiuu new industries and enterprises by laek of a sufficient and dependable supplv 0f fresh water. To remedy this the city and some surrounding territory recently voted bowls in the sum of two million ribihu-s, which will he expended in installing :1 supply .s tem to bring water from the Sahire river, from 11 point fifty miles distant from Port Arthur und entirely removed from all tidal influence or contamination. The reeem mustructia-n of tho Sahine-Neches canal, along the shore of Luke Sahini .n frunt of Port Arthur, has given tn the city a practivally unlimited water fi'ontnzn 0n n twentyefive-foot depth, Much of ilis land is controlled by the Port Arthur eity goverlnnent. hut there are large lmkl'ngs nhove the eity which are available fur shipping and industrial uses, and which z-rc now attracting the favorable utteutinn 0f enterpi s planning exten- sion nf munuiucturng activities, IE Ah Eli i2 unw- EIm h A 7; L3 '2 I7 IE 33- 74 FA In z-dditinn to the huge ti'nffice handled through Pm-t Arthur proper, this 1301': Is the port If entry of the customs district of Sabine :mvl handles the export oom- meme 01 the ports of Beaumont, Sabine. Orange, Pm't hm'hvs and Sabine Pass. The commerce of these suh-pol'ts combined With the mmmtru- of Port Arthur proper, shows a intnl of over ten million tons yearly. m 2;! K? The 1,1-uzi'rss 0f the city is pi'ohabiy imlicat-il us convincingly by the census figures as by emy other gauge. In 1896 there was; no sltvh plnee as Port Arthur. In 1900, the population was 700; in 1910 it had become 7,003. In 1710 the U. S. Census Bureau compilation showed a population of 22.251, and the same binu-uu. on January 1, 1921, made an official estimate that the city's population had grown to 2.15:3. E g ; r1 E Inquiries regarding the Pity. its development and pas; tilities should be ad- dressed to the Port Arthur Chamher of Commerce and Shipping, Port Arthur, Texas, ?1 75V A LEROY G. STUMP, Secretary Chamber of Commm'cv and Shipping. H VA A 2L l: j l: :1 C :l E :1 HIIIIHWIIHIII mmmnmn, a numlmmnmEmuuuwm gt. l wulmmrmmEimmuuuluun :23: IIumIIIIIIIunr' ummmmn .

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