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Statistical History of Railroad Operations in Texas, 1891-1949
The Railroad Commission of Texas was established in 1891. The table below shows developments
and trends of railroad line operations in Texas from the commission's first report.Year. _0 W 3C)
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___ o Haw C nCciwoa zw19498
1947
1946
1945
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
1937
1936
1935
1934
1933
1932
1931
1930
1929
1928
1927
1926
1925
1924
1923
1922
1921
1920
1919
1918
1917
1916
1915
1914
1913
1912
1911
1910
1909
1908
1907
1906
1905
1904
1903
1902
1901
1900
1899
1898
1897
1896
1895
1894
1893
1892
18911,326.67
16,347.72J
16,385.49
16,398.32
16603.97
16,641.17
16,752.09
16,824.93
17,016.00
17,057.38;
17,101.69
17,242.47
17,393.96
17,262.93
17,295.66'
17,411.321
17,614.861
17,771.89
17,752.63
17,569.02
17,358.40
[17,273.74
16,949.05i
16,739.52
16,646.53
16,644,58
16,651.92,
16,503.311
16,472.25
16,382.99
16,177.831
16,426.63
16,580.05
16,518.18
16,294.101
16,366.32
15,891.66
15,562.52
14,916.31
14,339.21
13,786.801
113,372.28
12,864.021
12,213.17
11,670.651
11,378.79!
10,925.34
10,574.77
9,925.33
9,791.21
9,613.48
9,470.12
9,446.32
9,252.66
9,108.53
8,974.12
8,910.01
8,643.35
8,484.46147,769,627
172,717,282
163,222,751
140,735,375
159,795,568
165,921,126
164,970,637
141,223,552
91,780,832
68,208,079
66,929,945
66,745,799
77,609,145
65,988,245
54,500,484
54,324,877
49,311,224
49,049,348
72,603,409
86,293,225
98,808 402
94,419,822
95,461.247
95,756,563
89,578,749
87,382,811
77,242,518
66,430,824
68,982,850
77,803,926
65,794,895
64,159,579
67,465,446
62,351,993
54,354,684
54,463,364
57,441.529
49,693,884
48,411,807
47,084,835
42,061,619
38,233,863
41,620,395
34,998,754
30,653,070
30,492,944
29,959,203
26,426,412
25,238,983
22,380,607
20,924,890
18,590,046
16,342.303
14,510,919
15,591,262
13,285,477
15,162,630
12,742,656
10,944,1951389,948,675
436,136,267
372,282,426
324,774, 090
390,670,669
412,831,093
379,659,061
283,433,884
180,368,515
141,015,970
142,054,591
141,190,956
158,425,675
139,122,396
117,611,146
114,454,019
108,355,529
114,350,458
162,014,947
204,371,667
245,502,744
243,192,113
245,162,395
244,763,007
227,252,064
228,086,350
207,446,865
194,284,690
222,274,401
235,353,895
187,222,437
158,575,355
144,019,848
127,140,394
107,414,011
109,313,370
116,460,375
102,781,531
98,931,674
94,731,430
90,429,450
- 81,776,691
96,074,293
75,510,388
68,145,132
65,209,216
62,760,577
58,890,496
58,296,879
47,062,868
45,334,192
41,102.587
37,340,227
35,318,630
39,387,869
34,197,222
38,417,670
36,212,192
35,666,498$2&378,438
330,029,402
280421,729
263,337,760
347,983,619
368,920,999
322,568,405;
220,347,939
149,056,835
127,165,474
127,206,618
129,086,649
146,805,790
122,421,803
93,681,088
90,189,009
83,944,929
90,571,376
122,492,495
152,169,952
177,606,479
176,414514
186,531,9261
179,988,825
169,382,692
168,330,384
164,155,034
159,024,234
184,489,974
234,718,643
165,721,8461
131,630,349
99,415,941
91,225,726
85,900,985
90,063,394
90,991,944
81,718,122
76,306,409
72,524,020
68,045,388
68,105,049
70,778,465
56,914,670
52,411,748
51,715,855
51,767,381
45,802,763
41,054,732
35,626 922
32,518,118
30,293,749
29,173,938
28 047,083
28,864,994
27,008,927
29,454,067
29,434,833
28,762,83676.52
75.67
75.32
81.83
67.54
60.96
58.61
59.80
70.57
76.76
74.52
77.13
74.61
88.00
79.76
78.80
77.47
79.21
75.61
74.46
72.34
72.54
6.09
73.54
74.54
73.80
79.13
81.85
83.00
99.73
88.52
83.01
69.03
71.75
79.97
82.39
78.13
79.51
77.13
76.56
75.25
83.28
73.67
75.37
76.91
79.31
82.48
77.78
70.42
75.70
71.73
73.70
78.12
79.41
73.28
78.98
76.67
81.28
80.64$91,570,236
106,106,865
91,860,697
61,436,330
42,687,050
43,910,094
57,090,656
63,089,946
31,311,680
13,850,496
14,847,973
12,104,307
11,619,885
16,700,593
23,930,058
24,265,010
24,410,600
23,779,082
39,522,452
52,201,715
67,896,265
66,777,599
58,630,469
64,774,182
57,869,372
59,755,966
43,291,831
35,260,456
37,784,427
635,252
21,500,591
26,945,006
44,603,907
35,914,668
21,513,026
19.249,976
25,468,432
21,063,409
22,625,265
22,207,410
22,384,062
13,671,642
25,295,827
18,595,718
15,733,384
13,493,361
10,993,197
13,087,733
17,242,147
11.435,946
12,816,074
10,808,838
8,166,289
7,271,547
10,522,875
7,188,295
8,963,603
6,777,359
6,903,662Amounts per Mile
Operated.SHERIDAN'S REMARK ABOUT TEXAS
In Sam Acheson's history" of The Dallas News,.
"35,000 Days in Texas," the following explanation
of Gen. Phil Sheridan's famous remark about
Texas is given: -
Grant and Sheridan were guests at a dinner at
the Tremont Hotel in Galveston, and Sheridan
remarked:
"Speaking so kindly of Texas-and I speak
from my heart-probably I ought to explain a
remark I once made about it. I had just returned
to San Antonio from a hard trip to Chihuahua on
some Mexican business when I received an order
to proceed at once to New Orleans; it was in 1866.
' I hired relays and coaches so that I had only
to hitch on the wagon and go speedily to get the
boat at Galveston. I traveled day and night. It
was in August and, need I say, very whrm. I
arrived here covered with dust, my eyes and ears.
and throat filled with it. I went to a little hotel
in that condition and had just gone up to theregister, when one of these newspapermen rushed
up to me and said, "General, how do you -like
Texas?"
"I was mad and I said, 'If I owned Texas and
all hell, I would rent out Texas and live in hell '
Needless to say, that did not represent my true
opinion of this magnificent state.'
LLANO ESTACADO, OR STAKED PLAINS
Origin of the name of the Llano Estacado.
or Staked Plains (see p. 121) is in dispute. One
version is that Coronado, crossing the trackless
grassland in 1541, became fearful that he would
lose his way back and therefore staked his route.
Another is that the early explorers found the rem-
nants of an ancient forest and so applied the
name. There is also the theory that Estacado is
a corruption of a Spanish word for "palisades"
and that the name was given the plains by the
Spanish explorers who climbed to the floor of the
plains from the Pecos Valley where the escarp-
ment has the appearance of a palisade at places
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$20,461.53 $2,064.53
22,903.23 1,626.15
18,958.92 1,723.90
15,153.58 2,629.30
17,393.42 4,285.56
18,159.34 4,865.76
16,444.30 4,552.24
13,148.78 2,432.95
8,874.74 1,207.32
7,084.08 944.72
7,070.44 922.60
6,941.61 938.66
7,732.84 1,014.84
6,838.49 958.67
5,579.27 801.71
5,472.40 749.51
5,186.62 688.10
5,304.69 837.82
7,542.08 1,229.02
9,557.06 1,739.55
11,482.65 2,273.42
11,423.91 2,309.83
11,591.64 2,525.14
11,600.02 2,684.87
10,653.42 2,673.33
10,482.15 2,903.32
9,200.52 2,967.24
8,663.07 2,848.34
10,139.89 3,243.08
9,886.96 4,326.29
7,815.91 3,529.35
6,501.81 2,975.02
6,014.38 2,491.76
5,421.34 2,084.78
4,596.83 1,814.07
4,451.87 1,747.85
5,086.42 2,160.81
4,551.94 1,989.60
4,493.74 2,070.78
4,586.38 1,900.19
4,609.07 1,925.70
4,230.85 1,873.27
5,116.66 1,937.03
4,291.14 1,580.39
4,044.88 1,493.65
4,038.01 1,398.21
4,128.56 1,357.74
3,991.27 1,390.47,
4,310.44 1,379.74
3,537.81 1,106.78.
3,553.12 1,025.47
3,291.47 957.85
2,968.62 907.19
2,744.05 992.91
3,206.80 1,001.07
2,700.80 982.87
3,151.57 1,041.52
2,973.17 1,040.09
2,956.58 1,082.71$5,608.63
6,490.62
5,606.22
3,746.50
2,570.89
2,638.65
3,407.10
3,749.56
1,830.96
811.99
868.22
702.01
675.16
967.43
1,383.58
1,393.63
1,385.80
1,338.02
2,226.29
2,971.24
3,911.44
3,865.85
3,459.22
3,869.54
3,476.36
3,590.12
2,599.81
2,136.56
2,293.82
38.77
1,329.02
1,643.45
2,690.21
2,174.25
1,320.29
1,174.13
1,602.63
1,349.85
1,505.62
1,548.72
1,623.59
1,022.39
1,966.40
1,522.59
1,348.12
1,186.80
1,006.21
1,237.64
1,737.28
1,167.98
1,333.14
1,135.84
864.50
778.43
1,124.98
783.83
990.72
761.14
791.8313.18
11.99
10.30
9.97
10.17
10.11
10.03
9.96
10.39
10.65
11.13
11.06
10.70
11.28
11.20
11.19
11.55
12.36
12.06
11.37
12.65
12.69
12.81
13.61
14.24
14.50
14.85
15.62
16.42
13.87
13.13
11.32
9.80
9.74
9.95
10.60
10.65
10.93
10.51
10.20
10.62
9.64
10.39
9.87
10.67
9.47
9.44
9.58
10.21
9.42
10.73
10.44
10.91
11.58
12.77
12.32
12.12
13.65
14.08
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