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mission that the Merchant Fleet Corp. would send as many American flag vessels to Corpus Christi as might be necessary to handle any amount of cargo received for Euro- pean shipment. In keeping with the development of the port new and important in- dustries are growing up $ around it. Some of these projects are com- pleted and others are still in process of construction. One of the most im- portant is the building of the Aransas Compress located at the port site. It is not yet entirely completed, though its present capacity is in ex- cess of 50,000 bales of cotton. The equipment consists of two high den- sity presses each capable of turn- ing out 100 bales of cotton per hour. The Port Compress Co. recently com- LOADING COTTON AT THE PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI tiating for the establishment of a line from the Pacific coast. Officials of the Nueces County Navigation commission headed by Robert Dris- coll are working constantly for the future development of the port and they believe that merchants, jobbers and others, receiving goods in the di- rect territory served by the port, will take advantage of the saving in transportation cost. Progress has been made and it has already been clearly demonstrated even in the brief period of its operation that the con- struction of an ocean port at Corpus Christi was well founded on economic grounds. DOCK SCENE LOOKING WEST pleted the enlargement of its ware- houses to a_ storage capacity for about 45,000 bales. There is. suffi- cient trackage alongside its platform for 75 railroad cars to be stored. Still another project for which the port is directly responsible is the construction of a $132,000 warehous2 by the Corpus Christi Warehouse & Storage Co. Inc. This project is lo- cated on the land leased from the navigation commission and is but a short distance from the _ turning basin. When completed it will afford _storage facilities for merchants of south Texas and for manufacturers and distributors in other — sections of the country. The commission having secured a responsible steamship service from the Atlantic seaboard is now nego- DOCK SCENE SHOWING WHERE APRON AND OPEN WHARVES MEET MARINE REVIEW—November, 1927 69