. Review of reviews and world's work. y vessels plied between l{ouston andthe outside world, buf with the increasing•tze and draft of shipping thit trafficKradually died out. In IH^/ weremade for a twenty-<ivc-f«K#t channel, but tlic work of dredging it was carried on in apiecemeal and half-hearted way for , in 1910, the citizens of HarrisCounty, in whicli Houston is , pro-posed to the Rivers arul Harb<irs Committeein Congress to contribute half the fundsneeded tr) finish the work, provided Con-gress would the rest and takemeasures to ensu
. Review of reviews and world's work. y vessels plied between l{ouston andthe outside world, buf with the increasing•tze and draft of shipping thit trafficKradually died out. In IH^/ weremade for a twenty-<ivc-f«K#t channel, but tlic work of dredging it was carried on in apiecemeal and half-hearted way for , in 1910, the citizens of HarrisCounty, in whicli Houston is , pro-posed to the Rivers arul Harb<irs Committeein Congress to contribute half the fundsneeded tr) finish the work, provided Con-gress would the rest and takemeasures to ensure prompt rouiplction. Tli«prrijKisal was accepted, work was begun ifi1912, and in the ruitunui of 1914 the Hous-ton Ship was atuiounccd as .in ac-coinplished fact. This was, however, only the first step ingreat undertakings which will ultimately, itis believed, make Houston the (lulfport. More recent w<»rk, and the plans forthe future, arc reviewed in the Enffinrrrin/; 92 THE AMERICAN REVIEIV OF REVIEWS. From llie hnoineerinu Xtue. GENERAL PLAN OF THE PORT OF HOUSTON. TEX., SHOWING COMPLETED AND PROJECTED DEVELOPMENTS News, from which the illustration on thispage is taken. The ship channel has an average depthof 26^ feet from Bolivar Roads, oppo-site Galveston, to the turning basin at itsinland extremit}, lying within the city limitsof Houston, but seven miles by water and4^ miles in a straight line below the busi-ness center of the town. The port au-thorities hope ultimately to have a channel250 feet wide with a minimum depth ofthirty-five feet. Moreover, a plan is onfoot, under private auspices, to develop thechannel above the turning basin and nearerto the city at an estimated cost of$10,000,000. Soon after the completion of the presentchannel the city took up the developmentof the municipal port. A bond issue of$3,000,000 was voted and sold, and the con-struction of wharf and docking facilitieswas at once begun. To Februarv 1, 1916,about $1,10
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