. City of Houston . REALTY AND so far as an exten-sive general outlay forbuilding and publicimprovements, and alively market in realestate can evince it,progress is clearlymanifested at Hous-ton. In the course of ayear, says architect Dickey, about$300,000 is put into new buildings atHouston. The street improvements ofthe year, call for about $150,000 more,says the city engineer, and as the citygrows the tendency is, of course, to exceedthese expenditures. In the schedule ofbetterments to the realty of the city lately,these however, are but minor items. During 1890, a round milli
. City of Houston . REALTY AND so far as an exten-sive general outlay forbuilding and publicimprovements, and alively market in realestate can evince it,progress is clearlymanifested at Hous-ton. In the course of ayear, says architect Dickey, about$300,000 is put into new buildings atHouston. The street improvements ofthe year, call for about $150,000 more,says the city engineer, and as the citygrows the tendency is, of course, to exceedthese expenditures. In the schedule ofbetterments to the realty of the city lately,these however, are but minor items. During 1890, a round million of dollars/at least, was invested in works of subur-ban improvements, like the building ofthe Magnolia Park Belt Line, the conver-sion of the horse roads of the city intoelectric lines, and other projects of thatcharacter. And $2,000,000 approxi-mately, has been spent on the improve-ments of all sorts, made in the city duringa twelve-month past. At the same time, the sales of realestate for the year, as reported by Porter,Pollard & R
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