ARGENTINE  , a former

city of Wyandotte county, Kansan, U . S . A., since solo a part of Kansas City, on the S. bank of the Kansas river, just above its mouth . Pop . (1890) 4732; (1900) 5878, of whom 623 were foreign-born and 603 of negro descent; (1905, state census) 6053 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, which maintains here yards and machine shops . The streets of the city run irregularly up the steep face of the river bluffs . Its chief industrial establishment is that of the United Zinc and Chemical Company, which has here one of the largest plants of its kind in the country . There are large grain interests . The site was platted in 1880, and the city was first incorporated in 1882 and again, as a city -of the second class, in 1889 .