BRAINERD  , a

city and the county-seat of Crow Wing county, Minnesota, U.S.A., on the E. bank of the Mississippi river, about 127 M . N.W. of Minneapolis . Pop . (1890) 5703; (1900) 7524, of whom 2193 were foreign-born; (1905) 8133; (1910) 8526 . It is served by the Minnesota & International and the Northern Pacific railways . The latter maintains here large car and repair shops, and a sanatorium for its employees . There are also the Sisters of St Joseph hospital, a county court house, a public library and a Y.M.C.A. building . A dam across the Mississippi provides water power (about 6o,000 H.P.) which is utilized extensively for manufacturing purposes . Lumbering is an important industry, and there are saw mills and planing mills, and an extensive creosote plant for treating railway ties and timber . There are also flour mills, paper and pulp mills, cigar factories, a brewery, a large foundry and a grain elevator . In Igo6.large quantities of iron ore were discovered in the vicinity; the new range, the Cuyuna, running through the city from north-east to south-west . Brainerd, named in honour of David Brainerd, was settled in 1870, and chartered as a city in 1883 .