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Hutchinson
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a city and the county-seat of Reno county, Kansas, U.S.A., in the broad bottom-land on the N. side of the Arkansas river. Pop. (1900) 9379, of whom 414 were foreign-born and 442 negroes; (1906 estimate) 13,024. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways. The principal public buildings are the Federal building and the county court house. The city has a public library, and an industrial reformatory is maintained here by the state. Hutchinson is situated in a stock-raising, fruit-growing and farming region (the principal products of which are wheat, Indian corn and fodder), with which it has a considerable wholesale trade. An enormous deposit of rock salt underlies the city and its vicinity, and Hutchinson's principal industry is the manufacture (by the open-pan and grainer processes) and the shipping of salt; the city has one of the largest salt plants in the world. Among the other manufactures are flour, creamery products, sodaash, straw-board, planing-mill products and packed meats. Natural gas is largely used as a factory fuel. The city's factory product was valued at $2,031,048 in 1905, an increase of 31.8% since 1900. Hutchinson was chartered as a city in 1871.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Hutchinson'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/hutchinson.html. 1910.
