1927 The Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide Page: 239
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THE TEXAS ALMANAC. 239
dence of future production commensurate
with fuel expectancy demanded for large
scale industrial development.
Today there are few sections of the
Nation more abundantly supplied with
fuel, or with greater reserve, than Texas.
This change of situation has been. brought
about by additional oil discoveries in the
coast region, the widespread development
of the petroleum and natural gas indus-
tries in North and West Texas, and the
discovery of methods of economical uitili-
zation of lignite.
Texas oil and gas production, amount-
ing to an average of about 130,000 barrels
of petroleum and 80,000,000,000 cubic feet
of gas annually, is sufficient to operate an
enormous manufacturing industry. Fur-
ther, possibility of early exhaustion of
these resources seems remote, because of
the constant and widespread discoveries
throughout the State. HI-owever, should
these resources dwindle, or the rapidly in-
creasing demands for motor fuel raise thepetroleum market above the level of in-
dustrial fuel, Texas would have an inex-
haustible reserve of lignite.
A "Super-Power" Plant.
During 1926 there was completed and
put into operation at Trinidad in the
western part of Henderson County a 50,-
000-Kw. power plant (about 67,000 horse-
power) burning pulverized lignite fed into
the furnaces through pipes, very much as
gas is burned through jets. This plant
receives its fuel from the lignite deposits
lying within a few miles, where it is
mined largely by steam shovels after the,
overburden has been stripped.
This plant, erected by the Texas Power
and Light Company, and a somewhat
smaller but similar plant erected at New
Braunfels by the Comal Power Company,
are the first steps in the direction of the
so-called "super-power" industry in
Texas, long advocated by Steinmetz and
other authorities, and embodying the ideaShowing Power Transmission Lines in Texas.
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1927 The Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide, book, 1927~; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123785/m1/243/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.