BOONE  , a

city and the county-seat of Boone county, Iowa, U.S.A., a short distance from the Des Moines river and near the centre of the state . Pop . (189o) 6520; (1900) 888o; (1905, state census) 9500 (1334 foreign-born); (1910) 10,347 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western (which has construction and repair shops here), the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern (inter-urban) railway, which connects with Des Moines, Ames, &c . Boone is an important coal centre; bricks and tiles are manufactured from the clay obtained near by; there is a packing plant for the manufacture of beef and pork products; and from the rich farming section by which the city is surrounded come large quantities of grain, some of which is milled here, and live-stock . Boone was laid out in 1865, was incorporated as a town in 1866, and was chartered as a city in 1868 .