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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RENO , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Washoe county, See also:

Nevada, U.S.A., in the W. See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, on the Truckee See also:

RIVER

river, and about 244 M. E. of See also:

SAN

San Francisco. Pop. (1890) 3563; (1900) 4500 (915 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 10,867. It is served by the See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern Pacific, the See also:

Virginia & Truckee and the Nevada-See also:

California-See also:

OREGON

Oregon See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. The city lies near the See also:

FOOT

foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 4484 ft. above the See also:

sea, and is in the most humid See also:

DISTRICT

district of a state which has little rainfall. Among the public institutions are the university of Nevada (see NEVADA), a See also:

UNITED

United States Agricultural Experiment Station, a public library (1903), the Nevada See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital for See also:

MENTAL

Mental Diseases (1882), the City and County Hospital and the See also:

PEOPLE

People's Hospital. At Reno are railway shops (of the Nevada-California-Oregon railway) and reduction See also:

WORKS

works, and the manufactures include See also:

FLOUR

flour, foundry and See also:

machine-See also:

SHOP

shop products, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, See also:

BEER

beer, See also:

PLASTER

plaster and packed meats. Farming and stock-raising are carried on extensively in the vicinity. On the site of the See also:

PRESENT

present city a road See also:

house was erected in 1859 for the See also:

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation of travellers and See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight teams on their way to and from California. By 1863 this See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place had become known as See also:

Lake's See also:

CROSSING

Crossing, and five years latei it was chosen as a site for a station by the Central (now the Southern) Pacific railway, then See also:

BUILDING

building through the Truckee Valley. The new station was then named Reno, in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Gen.

See also:

Jesse See also:

Lee Reno 0823–1862), a Federal officer during the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War, who was commissioned brigadier-See also:

general of See also:

VOLUNTEERS

volunteers in See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1861 and See also:

major-general of volunteers in See also:

JULY

July 1862, and led the Ninth See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

Corps at See also:

South See also:

Mountain, where he was killed. The city twice suffered from destructive fires, in 1873 and 1879. Reno was incorporated as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1879 and chartered as a city in 1899. Its city See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was withdrawn in 19o1, but it was rechartered in 1903.

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