The acreage and cost to the Government of the military real property controlled by Army in each of the States and the District of Columbia within Continental United States is shown in Table 20. Six States, ranked in size by cost of Army real property, were Virginia, Texas, California, Maryland, New York and New Jersey. The cost of the properties in these States constituted 34.2 percent of Army's total Continental United States cost. The total acreage (5.7 million) controlled by Army in the six States each having over one-half million acres; i.e., New Mexico, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah and Georgia, constituted 65.8 percent of its Continental United States acreage. Virtually all (95.7 percent) of the public domain land under Army control was located in the four States of New Mexico, Arizona, California and Utah. The ten categories of real property in which Army has the greatest dollar investment in Continental United States are presented in Table 21. They are illustrated in Chart 6 along with Navy and Air Force data. The total cost represented by the ten largest Army categories is $5.5 billion, 67.8 percent of the total Army Continental United States cost. The production facilities as a functional group represents the largest category, on a cost basis, of properties held by the Army in this country. This category consists of the specific plants, shops and manufacturing enterprises which are in operation at non-industrial installations as well as those at industrial installations. With the acquisition of considerable Wherry housing and the completion of numerous units under construction, family housing moved during the year from eighth to fifth place on a cost basis. |