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CITY TRANSIT-PIPELINES-BUILDING. 261
STREET RAILWAY AND BUS LINES
Only two Texas cities-Dallas and El Paso
-had electric street railway systems as of
Aug. 1, 1951, and each of these had supple-
mental bus service. Remainder of Texas cities
rely on buses for local transportation. Dallas
installed trolley coaches in 1946 as a third
medium. Data below on transportation sys-
tems, number of vehicles and mileage came
from the 1950 edition of Mass Transportation's
Directory, Chicago.
City- Vehicles Miles
Abilene, buses .............. . 20 54.00
Alice, buses .. ... .. 4 12.00
Amarillo, buses ... .. 51 115.60
Austin, buses ........ ... (84 159.70
Baytown. buses ......... . 5 24.00
Beaumont, buses . ..... 62 79 40
Big Spring, buses .......... 6 (*)
Borger, buses b ........... (9) ()
Brenham, buses .......(*) (0)
Brownsville, buses .. .......19 85.00
Brownwood, buses ......... 7 45.00
Bryan, buses c.......... 12 30.00
Corpus Christi, buses . . . 90 259.80
Dallas, buses............ . 336 207.50
Dallas, streetcars .......... 196 82.60
Dallas, trolley coaches....... 54 14.10
Dallas, total vehicles, miles 586 304.20
Denison, buses ... () ( *)
Denton, buses .... ... . 12 14.50
E1 Paso, buses ... ...... 71 113.20
El Paso, streetcars ............ 17 25.60
E1 Paso, total vehicles, miles 88 138.80
Fort Worth, buses............. . 238 178.00
Gainesville, buses ............. (*) (* )
Galveston, buses . ........64 43.26
Houston, buses 572 691.80
Kingsvlle, buses... .... . 9 20.00
Laredo, buses . ............. 38 25.45
Longview, buses ... ......... 18 74.00
Lubbock, buses .. ....... 31 120.10
Lufkin, buses ............. ...() ()
Marshall, buses .... ............ 3 12.00
McKinney, buses ........... 4 9.00
Midland, buses .. . ........... (*) (*)
Naeogdoches, buses .... ........6 21.00
Odessa, buses ... ....... .. (*) (*)
Orange, buses .. .. ........ 6 32.00
Paris, buses.. ....... 10 28.00
Port Arthur, buses ...........27 47.00
San Angelo, buses .. .. ....... 22 59.10
San Antonio, buses . .... 295 190.00
Sherman, buses 8 .. . 17 42.20
Temple, buses . ............() (*)
Texarkana, buses a n. 30 35.00
Texas City, buses .............. . 5 ()
Tyler, buses .............. 28 114.00
Uvalde, buses ............... () (*)
Vernon, buses. ....... 3 4.70
Victoria. buses i nor.......... 7 26.00
Waco, buses ... .... 52 107.00
Wharton, buses ...... (4) - (*)
Wichita Falls, buses 48 102 00
*Information not available.
TEXAS PIPELINE MILEAGE
There were 86,523 miles of oil and gas
pipelines in Texas as of Jan. 1. 1950, accord-
ing to the Oil and Gas Division of the Rail-
road Commission of Texas.
Having both the largest area and the largest
oil and gas productions, Texas has by far the
greatest total mileage of both oil and gas
pipelines. Texas is point of origin for all but
a few of the interstate gas pipelines and most
of the oil pipelines. The total of 86,523 miles
of pipeline is classified as follows:
Oil Pipelines.
Miles.
Gathering lines (crude and natural gaso-
lines) ....... ................. 20,149
Trunk lines, crude oil............... 26,403
Trunk lines, refined products ............. 2,625
Total .......................9...... 49,183
Gas Pipelines.
Miles.
Field and gathering ..................... 3,220
Transmission, trunk................... 15,010
Distribution ............................. 19,110
Total ................................ 37,340
Grand total (oil and gas)........... 86,523TEXAS CONSTRUCTION AWARDS, 1950
Total construction awards in Texas during
1950 were $1,059,457,667, according to the
Texas Contractor, Dallas, co action news
weekly magazine which annually compiles
statistics on the construction industries. This
record, over a billion dollars, was the highest
in Texas construction history. Total awards
annually for the eleven years ended with 1950:
Year- . Amount. Year- Amount.
1950.... $1,059,457,667 1945. $245,438,277
1949 .. 939,382,556 1944 ..... 152,795,810
1943..... 300,026,486
1948.. . 948,714,456 1942 ..... 825,704,245
1947. . 646,850,733 1941...... 493,467,977
1946... 455,746,429 1940. .. 265.220,590
Construction awards during 1950 reached
their peak in August, but dropped only about
seasonally at the end of the year. Construc-
tion by months in 1950 was as follows:
Month- Amount. Month- Amount.
Jan. $61,891,621 Aug .... $129,251,999
Feb .... 64,978,563 Sept 88,692,182
March 77,204,411 Oct. . 98,177,462
April 61,919,236 Nov .... 93,361,665
May 88,635,325 Dec .... 94,774,670
June . . 100,619,442
July .... 99,951,091 Total .$1,059,457,667
Awards by Classifications.
Construction awards by three major classi-
fications during 1950 were as follows:
Class- No. Amount.
Engineering ............1,751 $181,631,511
Nonresidential ........... 4,429 538,270,334
Residential . ...........34,324 339,555,822
Total ............. 40,504 $1,059,457,667
Analysis of Awards.
Awards during 1950 were analyzed by the
Texas Contractor as follows:
Engineering Awards- No. Value.
Highways, streets, airports... 827 $38,459,105
Bridges, overpasses, under-
passes . .................. 51 7,184,165
Waterworks, sewers.......... 722 55,574,978
Irrigation, drainage, channels,
canals, dams ............... 95 22,644,193
Power lines, and REA........ .50 7,485,011
Miscellaneous ............. . 6 284,059
Total .................. 1,751 $181,631,511
Nonresidential Awards-
Schools ..................... 931 $117,305,764
Churches, theaters,
auditoriums ............... 363 26,898,500
Hospitals, hotels, dormitories. 183 51,139,067
Public buildings.. ........... 349 38,260,240
Industrial buildings....... 23 84,343,738
Business buildings........... 2,580 220,323,025
Total ......... ........ 4,429 $538,270,334
*Residential Awards-
Residences costing less than
$7,000 each ..............25,732 $170,733,260
Residences costing more than
$7,000 each ............... 7,559 111,389,550
Apartments (family units
9,437) .. 242 50,473,811
Duplexes (family umnits 1,582) 791 6,959,202
Total ..................34,324 $339,555,822
BUILDING PERMITS, TEXAS CITIES
(Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.)
Pct. Change,
r--12 Months 19-- 1949-
City- Number Valuation 1950.
Abilene ........... 2,115 $14,542,589 126
Amarillo .......... 3,741 26,077,502 57
Austin ............ 4,175 39,608,812 76
Beaumont ......... 3,830 9,720,475 -3
Corpus Christi...... 4,989 29,451,260 93
Dalas ......... 24,005 144,179,864 89
El Paso............ 4,359 25,073,685 55
Fort Worth........ 9,818 47,729,271 59
Galveston ......... 1,994 7,428,575 -13
Houston ........... 13,71 176,932,907 115
Lubbock .......... 3,826 25,736,714 62
Port Arthur........ 2,359 5,552,709 20
San Antonio........ 18,898 57.056,677 55
Waco ............. 2,873 19,739,269 73
Wichita Falls...... 1,380 5,495,009 -5
Total ..........102,075 $634,325,318
*Total one-family units all types residential
construction 44.310.
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