The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 241, Ed. 1 Monday, April 11, 1927 Page: 1 of 24
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PROGRESS EDITION
NUMBER 237.
VOLUME XIII.
ORANGE PORT DEVELOPMENT SIGNIFICANT
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an excellent position
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new popular co-operative plan
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port of Orange having been agreed
on by the house committee on riv,
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Dream Came True
Thia action sienaled the dawn of
new era of wnterwava develonen
kills about nine out
within thirty-fve
conneetion with 1
port .
the fact' thnt the total tonnaze
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the rail- 1
continents:
a few rule* the public
if they wore obeyed,
for tow rde reforesting
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by the use ®f fiele rlasses.
playground and It* re. reation
mass along with the sprouts, and too
Where they are beant dwells;
With a depth of thirty-one feet in the Sabine-
Neches waterway from the port to the sea, a distance
of thirty-nine miles, Orange reaches a goal for which
long and strenous effort has been put forth by her en-
ergetic citizens.
On the waterway, more than anything else, dotes
the city and its citizenship, and no survey of accom-
plishments past or contemplated would be complete
without a more or less brief history of the waterway
project of the district at the head of which stands,
serene in the knowledge of its vast possessions and
confidence in the future industrial triumphs, the City
of Orange.
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The zreatest menace to timber
growing is fire. It is estimnted
that twenty-five million dollars of
ing the city of Orange navigation
district, made several trips to Wavh-
ington to urge the inclusion of or-
travpers and hunters, and
coonsumed each
f rest by the division nf forest pro-
tection 4 f the state forestry depart-
the zrass
Thls tower
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gan the nxitntion for improvement
The principal
lumber. timhers, ,
and general men h
Import* ln« lude
conetruction nf the wharveg
fire spedeing on its
only In its Infancy notwithstanding
its magnitude and that in all prot-
ability the future held -reater and
better things for the district than
anv nf which the most ontimistic in-
dividual had vet dreamed
During all these venrs of develop,
ment and efforts tn secure develop-
an warehouses nre
use to report a fire
is the
water locks
conntv
Without
sometimes burned
asphalt, mnhog-
ment It I
and stands
unohstruc te<
anted timbers and nilinga have heen
extensively used with the exception
nf one warehouse which hns n «tee1
franie. I Fire walls have heen ere. t-
ed at eonvonient Interval* also werv-
policies. lest
3 Making Camp. Before bulldin*
Are scrape all infammable mater-
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covering forest
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mono an attention
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lien, represent-.- iith Ine rease in commerce flowink
ihepugh the port Additional facili-
that carry
But sometimes
eats the pine
ared; therefore, large strips of
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It is su id. with the
of the mid-confl-
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district unless
polished furnishings of the home:
they eradle the young and 4 ofin the
1« eighty feet in h*ight
to demon-trate
growth and development her* was
convenient sections for
operation nf cargo
The first wnrehous
-G0 ' feet in widih by
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be like
Bedell Moore.
at a
of the wajerwnv to th* golf Some .
of th’dommittee wdm went ^tne .Cwt!Z
but ne cup* Ing
on th- Snlne
cost nf almost
pent and ronstal nil fields: nil refin-
eries now nmon- the biggest in the
world were located at Port Arthur
and Beaumont.
These r|tle*'appealed to the gov-
ernment for a 30-foot depth and n
width of 125 feet to properly and
economically handle the new mm-
; REFORESTATION METHODS BEGIN
4 non feet in
nnd 26 feet
supported on
.Cut all the trees and the rain
washes great deposits of silt down
the hillside into our reservoirs and
channels, and always inereasing the
cost of their maintaihance.
Now is the time tn concentrate
the public thought on the state and
and nil the bridges* Timher ft
our own state not only supplit
but also nt her stairs an eome
eign countries with lumhe
other product which our 4
forests produce is turpentine
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stop to think how
building I*
300 feet in
export* comprise
rice box shooku
Did you ever think ,,f the
ties consumed by the railroads
gear* 4 f all the telegraph
ange" in the deep water project
So vigorously and convine ingly
was the cause presented byMayor
Lea that Oraqge wasf nally -ineluded
and receivedthe Full benefits of the
new work.
The govenment estimate nf the
total cost-was $350,000 to that Or-
. .1 Lat-
G Bedell
ros- ter of sue h
e} r: duce the S' '
nole= nrao .
ment and enlargement waa enhane-
ed and future prospects brizhtened
when the board of army engineers
and the chief engineer at Washing-
ton npproved a prelimnary report
I nf Major Julian I,. Schlev, United
States district engineer of Galveston,
np the proposed project nf still fur-
ther Improving the Sabine-Neches
waterway from the gulf tn Port Ar-
thur. Beaumont and Orange, under
order and survey contained In th*
rivers and harbors act approved
March *. 1925.
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railroad car and the warehouse to
he ona level. fa ilitating lohding and
unloading .
The total covered area in ware-
houses amounts to 72,000 mijuare feet
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Its part in Th* great development
nf the district nf which it classes
itself an important entity is a sig-
nificant pirre nf history in the mnk-
1st and is worth the attention nf
any nr all whn are interested in any
wnv In its history or its future
The Rabin* river which, fnr over
two hundred miles, marks the boun-
dary line between Ionisiara nnd
Texns is consnicuous fnr its rredt
vnlume of water nmong the rivers
wewt of the Mississippi ft empties
into the Sabine lake n few miles be-
low Orange
While the river pt Ornnre |n of
nmnle denth. thirty-fve feet nr an
there were shonl- at the hnr, and
shlnment* then largely ^f lumber,
rice romine Ihter had tn he light-
ered fn shins in the gulf outsfde the
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Did VOU
Ing tn divide the warehouses
Cable,
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A ths
begin
.ed in from the river
length, 280 feet wide
long They are all <
creneote piling* in
Here ire
the al obey
1 Match** Pc sure your match
f* nut; break it in two before throw-
tig It aw ■
2—Tohace A Be sure that pipe
ashes and ignr or cigarette stubs
are dead before throwing them
Drench fire with water. Pour the
latter around the fire so that the
ground" will be snaked. If water is
not obtainable throw sand or dirt on
the fire and then tread upon that.
5—Smeking out animals. Always
be sure every spark is out before
leaving it.
6—Never burn slash or brush in
windy weather.
tics were constructed for the better
nerommodation of lumber shipments
which forms th* most important
item in the export movement of
this port • second warehouse
unit which is 90 feet by 400 feet
and also a third unit 90 feet by 200
feet ane nenasted by Are walls
every 100 feet The extensive traek-
age alongside of the warehouse is
nal at her very door.
The Cotton Helt railroad
they hold the
the trafic ef
•Ions of name an well as effort Th*
entire project is a consolidation of
the old Imnrovements of the harbor
at Ro bine Pas*, the Port Arthur r».
nal and the Kahine-Neches canal tn
Benumont and Orange
Up tn June 30 T922 the covern-
ment has expended on all these pro-
-now a combined nroject—th*
sum of $8,705 065.47. • This does not
include $577,506.78 which haa been
contributed to the program by the
navigation district and other lorn l
interests, nnd is exclusive of the an-
pronriatons of $2,191,000 fnr the
10-foot improvement work.
All told, approximately $1 *.000.000
will hove been spent on the Sa-
bine-Neche* water wav when the
present program shall have been
completed.
Profits from the shipping Indus,
try and th* mnvings effected by
means nf this great waterway trans-
portation facility could hardlye be
imagined aa they now are. tn say
nothing of what they may be in the
yaara to —s
Canal Proge~.
The streams today are materially
straightened and .deepened intointe-
gral parts of one of the greatest wa-
terway systems of the world.
•In the early 90‘a, Arthur Rt dwell
built .the Kanans City Southern rail-
way and founded th.city of Port
Arthur. He brouxht ieer water to
Port Arthur, and later to Beaumont
be obtained in nll directions. The
naked eve can see the smoke from
the mills at Jasper. Deweyville nnd
three towns are
to thirty miles
with the canal, making what is
known as tha Neches-Sabine canal.
The government finally took over
Port Arthune shin canal which it
widened to 90 feet and deepened to
25 feet by sucrcessive steps with the
aid nf local contributions by the
Hy dig a hole in the tenter and In" it
toP build your fire.
d‘ 4—How to put out a camp ftre.
structoin. Forest fires are started
by matehes an < igarrttes thrown
careles-ly in the zra- hy hunters
and campers, and also they are
sometimes started by abandoned
campfires
te 1 by the watchman.
. nvered with a sys-
vers as it would re-
burned yearly and
state much money.
1! the states, which
stem nf firfle protec-
not, the land I*
monument for all
inhound and nuthound shipments In*
the Orange-Beaumont-Port Arthur
(or Snbine) district nmounted for
1920 to 11,846,159 tons according to
the figures given in reports of gov-
ernment engineer*, and pointed out
that no other' Amriean port outside
of New York had published figures
showing a greater tonnage during
that year:
A bill to give the desired relief
except as to the Sahine river and
removed in Jefferson
nnv sisal and dye-woods
There are several smaller wharves
for the n«« ommodation of smaller
vennele. At the turning basin there
nre approximatel 2,000 feet of com-
bination railroads nnd wharf front-
age.
Orange is the western terminus nf
the Kahine-Cale asieu intracoastal ca-
nal which I* an Important feeder of
eommrrre t rht port Tn ‘T . w. nV of
rice cuttle and lumber Caleasieu '
parish ‘and Lake t’haries are now
enjoying the fruits of a 30-foot ca-
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rehant
laugh-
rrlage
Ish tn
from
sister.
• first
taken
f the
and Orange. He connected it up
many things timber is used for* As
was remarked ‘ Tree} are the arms
of mother earth lifted up in worship
to her Maker They are th* shelter
of man, heast, and bird; they fur-
nish the roof above us and th*
shade ahout us; they are the masts
that fly the flags of all nations and
th* Millis of all the seas; they are
th* timbers that bridge for hidden
streams; thev bear th* wires of the
og st h towers. Main
• to' eret ♦ a lookout tow-
• Ivani i hix one hundred
e and M ssarhnsetts has
if we allow our forest to dwindle
away, we will have depriv\I our
wild life nf shelter and food. Also
we will have spolled the public’s
sand, threr hundrl anil ac-
re- of short-leaf pine \nother
forrst in Newton county pw~---6-
one thousand, seven bund rial and
one aires in lonz-leaf pine The
third forest i- in Motngomery
county in the lollolls distriet. rm-
bracing one thou-and. six hundreil
and thirty-thrw aeres Thee dis-
trtotsare not tarur rnonrh to pre--
ulated, has vast nerens of prac-
tically non-productive land, because
centuries ago her forests were ex-
terminated and now the land is lit-
tle better than n desert. But in
Texas ther limnte In such that the
forests can he restored even at the
worst burns.
cars and • • fzhtinz tool* can reach
the fire ensily md put it out. a, the
fires । ■ uenallt sm ill and near the
highw \ definite district is given
the l rse patrolman; fires in which
he is responrible fnr A lookout
A few years ago attention nf Ma-
jor Adams government engineer
wns chlled to the remarks of Ma lor
Quiyn, He said it was true that
great tankers coming down the river
"wallowed" along and struck the
bank* without being damaged.
At this early date the waters of
the Ner hrs and Sabine rivers lazily
wormed their way through nature’s
zig-zag channels to Sabtnej lake
thence to the Gulf of Mexico. Their
hank* were lined with marsh thick-
ets typical of primitive days, while
wild animals were pletiful, lying
on nature’s bountiful store/ uncon-
scfous of the approach of a cviliza-
tion and th* devastating hand of bo-
man prog res* and industrial con-
quest
All efforts at waterway Improve-
4 from h slot
high knoll. An
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full 30 feet project, an outlined.
Wilt 1ea la ala*. Attorney for the
naviimtion board-of Oranee county,
and waa instrumental in kettine mi It
matrolmen with their
Curry. Rr and A. 0 M-Lenn. Mr
aIlmer mnremsed himwir In thia
mannf-r- "Gentiemen. r will not liv•
to nee the dny, but thin diatriet will
som: flay h. the "Ctyde of Ameriea • "
Major. Quinn, a guewt of the
citizen .committee, at that time m
charxn -nf eovernment work- in the
Sabine’ dlwtlot. uned th. following
langunge: "Gentlemen, thia In th.
only port In th. world wh.r. a ves-
ne1 cap Ko into the bank, without
beinK damnged a partele. It I
never, do anvthing in th. world but
entahligh thin port T will hnve an.
mons tonnage handled nver the en-
trie waterway the only argument
justifying the time, lahor nnd money
expended to secure it frange rer-
talnly ha heen horouzhly iutifed
Orange has munic irlv-owne
and operated wharves, dock* nnd
warehonmes loented ahout two miles
ran onh be obtained fr 1
southern pnles.
(herokee connty Maim-
largc*t of thrre fore~ area
mnintained hy the -tate forest r>
fir part ment. ponse--ing rwo thou-
of 15,840 aquare feet The dork
apron 1* 1500 feet in length and 38
feet In width, equippd with track
age and loromotive «Fines f • hand-
ling henvy tonnag*
There |* no port in America het-
ter equipped for the haniling of
lumker and timhera than 4 range
which has tither ~kieways equipped
‘with, electrh hoists providing the
unloading of timbers dirert from the
cars into the slin for concentrntion
and Afterwards being loaded bo rd
ships from the water A timher
basin nearly provide* desired stor.
age
by tire in the state of Teu This
i- the time of year whenthe grass
i- dry nml one muatch would send
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erica's wealth has been derived
largely from timher reseurees. If
we allow the forest to dwindle away
we will have ruined that Her ulean
industry of America
Along In this time of the year: th*
pine burrs ■become dry and fall off
the tree* Each one of these burr*
contains hundred* of seed A little
What is reforestation? Refor-
estation is the replanting and the
preservation of the trees II* oh-
ject i~ renlly to raise and harvest,
on the same Iand, sueri-sive tim-
ber eropa. Unlike man» miner-
als. timber can he perpetually re-
placrd, on the same land, without
trouhle to the taxpayer. If it is al-
Iovv«d to grow.
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