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THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
Power ulant of Tex-as Powver and Light CoimpIany, Trinidad. T'exas (Fee U. 29 1).
Telephone Development in Texas, 1927.There were in the State of Texas as of
January 1, 1928, 425.850 Bell telephones
and 188,668 connecting and independent
company telephones, a total of 614,518
telephones for the State.
During the year 1927, the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company reports that it
gained 24,600 telephones. There are 650
connecting companies operating 928 ex-
changes and 12 independent companies
operating 15 exchanges, with a total of
440.276 miles of local and long-distance
wvire.
Indicated below are the number of tele-
phones in service as of the first of the
year 1928 in ten of the principal cities.
D allas ......................... ....67,035
IHouston ..........................59,197
San A ntonio........................41,411
F ort W orth..........................33,602
E l P aso............................13,678
Galveston ...........................12,427
Austin ... ....................... 11,280
W ichita Falls......................10,853
Beaumont ..........................10,224
W aco ........................ ....10,582'
There were in the State of Texas as of
January 1, 1928, 7,834 employes of the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company,
the largest operating system in the State.
According to estimates, there were ap-
proximately 2,500 persons employed by
connecting and independent companies in
the State.
It has been estimated that there were
handled during the year 1927, 976,480,588local messages in the Bell exchanges of
Texas and 13.534,510 originating toll calls.
This means that during the year there
were handled 2,959,032 local messages a
day, and 41,014 toll messages a (lay, or an
average of 123,293 local calls per hour and
1.709 toll calls per hour throughout the
year.
Miles of Wire.
The estimated number of miles of ex-
change wire used by the Southwestern
tell Telephone Compl)any in Texas is
1,454,545 and 152,003 miles of toll wire.
The estimated number of miles of ex-
change wire in use by connecting and in-
dependent companies is 440,276 miles and
396,836 miles of toll wire. There is a total
of 2,046,824 miles of wire used in furnish-
ing telephone service in Texa:s.
During the year many improvements
were made in the telephone art, both in
the furnishing of local exchange tele-
phone service and the furnishing of toll or
long-distance telephone service.
Improvements in long-distaice service
and the increasing use of Two-Number or
Station-to-Station service have brought
the average time necessary to complete
a long-distance call from 5 minutes in
1926 to 3 minutes at the close of 1927.
During the year 1927 and the latter part
of the year 1926, telephone service was
established to Cuba, Mexico and, by the
new radio telephone, to England, Antwerp
and lBrussels. Further additions to the
service to Cinada were also established.IEAUIONT AND PORT ARTIHUIR SHIP CIIANNIEL.
(By Harvey WV. Gilbert.)The Beaumont and Port Arthur ship
channel was completed to a depth of
thrity feet in 1926. It is 250 feet wide
at the bottom, forty-eight miles in length
and cost $12,800,000. The government en-
gineers have recommended a greater
depth, which is expected to be completedwithin the next three years. The water-
way has become a great oil refining cen-
ter and the South's chief industrial center.
The intercoastail canal along the Louisiana
and Texas Coast from New Orleans to
Brownsville, will intersect the Beaumont-
Port Arthur ship channel.
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