The Industrial Advantages of Austin, Texas, or Austin Up To Date Page: 29
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TIlE CITY OF AUSTIN. 29
THE AREA OF AUSTIN
is exactly sixteen square miles, or 10,240 acres. The assessed value of city
property for 1891 was 811,000,000, while the actual value is something over
$22,000,000. The increase of taxable values in the past two years has been
k$3.000,000. These values, of course, do not include the granite $6,000,000
capitol building, the University and other State properties, nor the city and
county l)ublic prol)erties, or any property that is exempt by law.
THE POPULATION.
The national census gives Austin 16,250;- but since this was taken, by act of
the Legislature in March of the year 1891, the limits of Austin were greatly
extended-from 4.- square miles to 16 square miles. This involved the taking
in of all our suburbs, in many parts more populous than many portions of the
RESIDENCE OF 311. JOSEPH NALLE,
former city proper. The most conservative estimate, based on school inspection
and tax assessors, and other means, place our present population at 25,250.
The former city limits were so narrow that a population larger than that
reported could not conveniently dwell therein. The sites allotted to the various
large public institutions, including the capitol, and the unusual width of
most of the streets (some being as wide as 200 feet) left the actual inhabited
portion within the corporate limits not more than two square miles. Thus
about one-third of the population of the city doing business within its limits
lived in the adjoining suburbs. The growth of the city has been steady, and
the increase in real estate values has been healthy. The fact is that real estate.
values are lower in Austin than in any other city in the country of the same
population and commercial importance.
THE CITY DEBT
has been very small, and the taxes light. The old bonded indebtedness of the
city is but $125,000. This has been increased by the sale of " dam bonds " to
the amount of $1,400,000. The interest on this indebtedness of $1,400,000.
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Austin Board of Trade. The Industrial Advantages of Austin, Texas, or Austin Up To Date, book, 1894; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38097/m1/29/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.