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HUTCHINSON

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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Reno county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., in the broad bottom-See also:land on the N. side_of the See also:Arkansas See also:river. Pop. (1900) 9379, of whom 414 See also:west See also:foreign-See also:born and 442 negroes; (1910 See also:census) 16,364. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Missouri Pacific and the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific See also:railways. The See also:principal public buildings are the Federal See also:building and the county See also:court See also:house. The city has a public library, and an See also:industrial reformatory is maintained here by the See also:state. Hutchinson is situated in a stock-raising, See also:fruit-growing and farming region (the principal products of which are See also:wheat, See also:Indian See also:corn and See also:fodder), with which it has a considerable wholesale See also:trade. An enormous See also:deposit of rock See also:salt underlies the city and its vicinity, and Hutchinson's principal See also:industry is the manufacture (by the open-See also:pan and grainer processes) and the See also:shipping of salt; the city has one of the largest salt See also:plants in the See also:world. Among the other manufactures are See also:flour, creamery products, soda-ash, See also:straw-See also:board, planing-See also:mill products and packed meats. Natural See also:gas is largely used as a factory See also:fuel. The city's factory product was valued at $2,031,048 in 1905, an increase of 31.8% since 19oo. Hutchinson was chartered as a city in 1871.

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