1850 2,396 1860 4,845 102.2 1870 9,332 92.6 1880 16,513 76.9 1890 27,557 66.8 1900 44,633 61.9 1910 78,800 76.5 1920 138,276 75.4 1930 292,352 111.4 1940 384,514 31.5 1950 596,163 55.0 1960 938,219 57.3 Population of Percentage of Metropolitan Houston Increase (Harris County) 1850 4,668 1860 9,070 94.3 1870 17,375 91.5 188 27,985 61.0 1890 37,249 33.1 1900 63,786 71.2 1910 115,693 81.3 1920 186,667 61.3 1930 359,328 92.5 1940 528,961 47.2 1950 806,701 52.5 1960 1,243,158 54.1 Work in Progress [Illustration: _Cullen Center_] [Illustration: _Domed Sports Stadium_] [Illustration: _Manned Spacecraft Center_] [Illustration: _Jetero Airport_] [Illustration: _Natural Science Museum, Planetarium_] Five important Houston building projects, in various stages of development late in 1962, totaled a minimum completion cost of $347,500,000. Construction of a sixth, a new City Auditorium to be built on the site of the old one, which was opened in 1910, will begin in 1963 or 1964; money for the new auditorium was given by Houston Endowment, Inc., a foundation created by Jesse H. Jones. The eventual cost of Cullen Center, which is being built on a six-block site downtown, will be more than $100,000,000. The first two buildings, which were nearing completion late in 1962, are a twenty-five-story office building and the Hotel America. Cullen Center eventually will include an office building of fifty stories or more, two high-rise apartment towers, and other structures. The other projects, and their estimated final costs, are an air conditioned domed stadium for baseball and football games, $20,000,000; the Houston Intercontinental Airport, called Jetero, $125,000,000; the Manned Spacecraft Center, $100,000,000; and the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Planetarium, $2,500,000. FOOTNOTES [1]A: T. Binford was sheriff of Harris County from December, 1918, to January 1, 1937; Sugarland is the site of a state prison.