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268 THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
Texas Railroads Operated Under Lease,-(Con.)
Miles.
I :issouri-Kansas-Texas of Texas. track of:
Fort Worth & Denver City, in Wichita Falls .79
Galheston. Houston & Henderson, Galveston
to Houston.. .............................. 49.31
Houston & Texas Central, in Austin...... ..1.84
International-Great Northern, Austin to San
Marcos .. ............................ 29.67
St. Louis Southwestern of Texas, in Waco... .20
Texas & Pacific, Whitesboro to Fort Worth 71.18
Union Terminal Company, in Dallas.......... 2.06
Panhandle & Santa Fe. track of:
Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe, Sweetwater Junc-
tion to Sweetwater and to M. P. 461...... 5.31
Quanah, Acme & Pacific ,track of:
Fort Worth & Denver City, Acme to Quanah 3.97
St. Louis San Francisco & Texas. Red River
to Quanah... ....................... 8.01
Rio Grande City Railway, track of:
St. Louis. Brownsville & Mexico, Samfordyce
to point 10.197 feet west... ............... 2.65
Sabine & Neches Valley, track of:
Texarkana & Fort Smith, Ruliff to Dewey-
vi ie ............ ................. ..... 2.00
St. Louis. Brownsville & Mexico, track of'
Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe. Algoa to Houston 24 32
Houston Belt & Terminal Co., in Houston.... 4.52
Rio Grande Railway. in Brownsville....... .71
Texas Mexican Robstown to Corpus Christi.. 16.39
St. Louis. San Francisco & Texas, track of:
Ch,capo, Rock Island & Gulf, Carrollton to
Irving . 11.20
Chicago. Rock Island & Gulf, Dallas to Fort
Worth ..... 33 70
Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe. in Fort Worth.. 3 60
Houston & Texas Central, Denison to Sherman 9.18
Missouri-Kansas-Texas of Texas, at Red
River ........................... .. ... .09
St. Louis Southwestern of Texas, in Fort
W orth .... .......................... .... .98
St. Louis Southwestern of Texas. track of:
Dallas Terminal & Union Depot Company, in
Dallas ............................... 1.79
Fort Worth & Rio Grande. in Stephenvlle.... 1.30
Fort Worth & Denver City, in Fort Worth... .75
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, in Fort Worth:. .58Texas Railroad Operated Under Lease.-(Con.)
San Antonio Southern. track of: Miles.
International-Great Northern, San Antonio to
Kirk 15.88
San Antonio. Uvalde & Gulf. track of:
International-Great Northern, in San Antonio 2.74
San Benito & Rio Grande Valley. track of:
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexlco. in San
Benito .................................11
Shreveport, Houston & Gulf, track of:
St. Louis Southwestern of Texas. Prestridge
to Huntington.. ........ ............ 1.75
Southern Pacifeic Company, track of:
Galveston. Harrisburg & San Antonio. in El
Paso ......... .... .............. 2.93
Sugariand Railway, track of-
International-Great Northern, House to Hous-
ton .. 22.62
International-Great Northern, Anchor Junction
to Anchor..... ....................27
Texas & New Orleans, track of:
Houston & Texas Central. In Dallas......... 4.32
Houston & Texas Central. in Houston....... 1.26
Houston East & West Texas, Dorr Junction
to Bonita Junction.......... ......... 357
Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf. Dallas to Fort
Worth ............................... 36.65
Texas & Pacific, track of:
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio. Sierra
Blanca to El Paso....................... 91.98
Union Terminal Company, in Dallas ......... 2.02
Houston & Texas Central in Dallas ......... 5.84
El Paso Union Depot Co.. in El Paso.......... .21
Texas Southeastern, track of:
St Louis Southwestern of Texas. in Lufkin.. .76
Trinity & Brazos Valley. track of:
Fort Worth & Denver City, in Fort Worth.. 1.88
Houston & Texas Central, Waxahachie to Fort
Worth ............ ......... ........... 42.58
Houston Belt & Terminal, in Houston..... . 21.52
Wichita Falls & Southern, track of:
Wichita Falls, Ranger & Fort Worth, Jim
Kurn to Breckenridge ............ ...... 9.31
Wichita Valley Railway, Wichita Falls to
South Junction ................. .....3.58
Total number of miles over which two or
more companies have trackage rights.....936 76Radio in 1927-Broadcasting Stations.
Both European and American stations
are continuing their tests of high power
and low wave, without seeming to solve
the questions involved. Greater use of
underground aerial appears to have met
with some success in reducing the amount
and effect of above-ground interferences
with radio transmission and reception.
The use of underground aerial appears to
have been more successful with receiving
sets than with sending apparatus.
Considerable extension in wired wire-
less in the United States has been made
during the last year. As many as twenty-
three stations have been connected by tel-
ephone lines for simultaneous broadcast-
ing of New York programs. Up to this
time it has been necessary to place the
program on the chain at New York. In a
few instances programs given elsewhere
have been taken to New York by remote
control service and there placed on the
chain It is reported that there will be
several groupings of stations for such
service, all under the general direction of
the R.adio Broadcasting Corporation of
America.
Late reports from the Department of
Commerce show 676 radio broadcasting
stations in active operation in the United
States. Of these there are 310 with less
than 500 watts power, 212 with 500 to
1,000 watts, 3.5 with over 1,000 and not
over 10,000 watts, rnd 2 with as high as
50.000 watts. Nevada is the only State
without a broadcasting station.Outside the forty-eight States, Alaska
has two stations with not exceeding 100
wattage Hawaii has a 500-watt station,
Porto Rico has one of 500 watts, the Phil-
ippines one small station. Cuba has
eighteen stations, three of 500 wattage.
Mexio has twenty stations, one of 1,000
watts, five of 500 watts. Great Britain
has twenty stations, the largest of 16,000
watts, operating on 1,600 meters. Eight
stations are of 1,500 watts. The wave
lengths, except that at Daventry, are be-
tween 254.2 and 491 2.. Canada has sixty-
three stations, the two largest 5,000 watts,
four are 1,000 watts or more. Australia
has twenty-three stations, the largest
10,050 watts, nine others 500 watts or
more. Tasmania has one 250-watt station
and New Zealand ten, six of 500 watts.
Of South American countries Argentina
has eight stations of 500 or 1,000 wattage;
Brazil eleven, of which five are of 500 or
greater; Chile, seven; Peru, one; Vene-
zuela, two.
The Irish Free State has one station
and North Ireland one, each of 1,500
watts. They are on dif'-rent wave
lengths, though only seven . ters apart.
France has twenty-six stations, the great-
est 5,000 watts. Germany has twenty-five,
the big:-est 5.000 watts. Sweden has twen-
ty-fiv(e stations, the two largest 1,000
vt Ls.
Station IFAA.
Station WFAA, The Dallas News and
The Dallas Journal, is now (January,
1927) four and a half years old. In the
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