Texas Almanac, 1939-1940 Page: 275
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BUILDING-BUSINESS PAY ROLL. 275
Building in Texas.
Building permits issued in thirty-eight Building-
leading cities of Texas, which report regu- 1938. 1937.
larly to the Bureau of Business Research of
the University of Texas, amounted to $78,- Jacksonville ............. 311,912 126,368
870,322 in 1938 as against $63,448,075 in 1937. Lubbock ................ 3,582,367 2,049,356
Figures below are from the bureau: McAllen ................ 415,192 354,645
Building Marshall ................ *368,886 354,469
1938. 1937. New Braunfels........... * 118,610 t
Abilene ... $781,674 $451,652 Palestine ................ 259,391 174,010
Amarillo ..... *2,515,690 1,188,199 Pampa ...... ........... 224,325 '288,135
Austin ....... .. 5,994,275 3,868,038 Paris ................... 110,383 161,900
Beaumont ...............1,261,893 *1,432,264 Plainview ............... *65,971 '88,521
Big Spring................ *349,122 220,320 Port Arthur ............. 1,510,214 897,068
Brownwood ............. 56,875 22,333 San Angelo.............. *406,065 405,313
Cleburne ................ t 90,077 San Antonio............. '4,506,477 *4,045,135
Corpus Christi.......... *3,013,468 *2,815,900 Sherman ................ 413,600 379,573
Corsicana ............... 224,173 109,795 Snyder ... .............. 41,405 42,675
Dallas .................. 12,351,751 11,475,959 Sweetwater ..............168,836 165,214
Del Rio ................. 112,713 111,524 Tyler ....................1,305589 1,178,250
Denison ...... ..........215,456 80,632 Waco ..............1,445,423 1,171.701
Denton ................ 215,820 '117,463 Wichita Falls............ "1,188,881 313,095
El Paso................. *1,667,549 1,579,369 Total .......$78,870,322 $63,448,075
Fort Worth.............. 5,723,695 6,711,401
Galveston ............... $2,518,984 '1,677,836 *Does not include public works.
Graham ................. 146,039 "213,260 tNot available.
Harhngen ............... 252,845 *349,802 tIncludes public works.
Houston ............... 25,079,203 18,727,135 Not included in total.Number Engaged and Pay Roll in Industry and Business.
The tabulation below shows for the State tNumber -Pay roll-
of Texas and for each county, the number of active Number Amt. Rank
proprietors and employees engaged in indus- pro- of em- (add in
try and business and the pay roll for the prietors. ployees. 000). state.
year 1935. The rank of each county is Brown ............ 1,041 1,524 1,199 37
shown also. "Industry and business" as Burleson .......... 202 579 373 116
used here includes all manufacturing, whole- Burnet ............ 195 214 131 191
saling, retailing, finance, insurance and real Caldwell .......... 374 932 830 55
estate, mining and quarrying, construction in- Calhoun ........... 123 231 167 172
dustries, hotels and services and miscella- Callahan ......... 144 183 132 189
neous urban vocations. The table below is a Cameron ......... 1,697 4,232 3,051 17
fairly accurate guide to employment and pay Campn ... 181 370 188 161
rolls in urban and rural nonagricultural vo- Cass ....3... 157 606 701 75
cations. However, not all urban vocations Castro............ 342 911 576 88
Castro 107 99 81 216
are included in these figures of the census Chambers ......... 107 216 189 160
of 1935--notably professional service, domes- Cherokee ......... 557 1,608 1,146 41
tic service, educational institutions, public Childress ......... 249 878 708 72
service, utilities, religious and charitable or- Clay ............ 217 220 137 184
ganizations and boarding and lodging houses. Cochran ........... 68 50 28 241
It should be kept in mind also that the Coke ............ 162 105 63 220
amount of pay roll includes only pay of em- Coleman .......... 620 782 579 87
ployees, not including compensation of pro- Collin ........... 772 1,847 1,248 36
prietors. Collingsworth ..... 244 338 230 149
Colorado 357 778 483 101tNumber
active
pro-
prietors.
Texas ..........107,442
County-
Anderson ......... 481
Andrews .......... 28
Angelma .......... 367
Aransas 68
Archer 139
Armstrong ........ 59
Atascosa .......... 292
Austin ............ 269
Bailey ............ 104
Bandera .......... 131
Bastrop 262
Baylor ............ 160
Bee ...............*.. 312
Bell.............. 1,031
Bear ............6,803
Blanco ........... 103
Borden 5...........
Bosque ............ 392
Bowe 720
Brazoria .......... 424
Brazos ........... 325
Brewster .......... 86
Briscoe ........... 126
Brooks ........... .110-Pay roll-
Number *Amt. Rank
of em- (add in
ployees. 000). state.
450,887 $441,901 ...
1,701 $1,670 29
20 19 245
2,430 2,056 26
125 97 204
174 149 180
64 49 229
356 208 156
472 311 129
141 117 193
84 36 238
777 499 95
312 257 143
888 762 65
2,041 1,563 31
36,285 32,832 3
65 38 236
1 1 254
420 248 146
2,875 2,228 24
733 588 86
1,052 810 61
385 293 133
101 53 228
227 185 164Comal ..........
Comanche ........
Concho ...........
Cooke ............
Coryell ...........
Cottle ............
Crane .............
Crockett ..........
Crosby ............
Culberson........
Dallam ...........
Dallas ...........
Dawson ...........
Deaf Smith ........
Delta ............
Denton ...........
DeWitt ..........
Dickens ..........
Dimmit ...........
Donley ...........
Duval ..........
Eastland.........
Ector ..........
Edwards ..........
Ellis ..............
El Paso...........
Erath ............
Falls .............
Fannin ..........
Fayette ............276
277
170
384
343
111
47
49
148
52
170
7,196
175
121
174
675
525
125
121
151
242
531
114
82
872
2,311
319
532
621
5331,419
414
168
818
394
240
141
98
172
114
372
66,540
351
238
227
1,282
1,498
235
164
221
387
1,298
493
82
1,556
14,915
449
941
1,062
1,079896 52
327 125
96 ,205
642 80
262 142
202 157
144 181
85 212
134 187
91 200
327 126
77,990 2
276 137
186 162
132 190
956 48
1,089 43
185 165
100 201
153 177
274 138
1,138 42
505 94
38 237
1,063 44
13,722 6
323 127
629 81
681 77
701 76
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