MOLINE  , a

city of Rock Island county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the north-west part of the state, on the Mississippi river, adjoining the city of Rock Island and opposite the upper end of Rock Island . Pop . (1900), 17,248, of whom 5699 were foreign-born, principally Swedes and Belgians; (1910 census), 24,199 . It is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Davenport, Rock Island & North-Western railways . A channel in the Mississippi river here, 250 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at low water, projected in 1905, was completed in 1908; and in 1907 a lock was finished which affords a draught of 6 ft. and is a part of the 6 ft. channel improvement of Rock Island Rapids . The city has large and varied manufacturing industries; water-power is derived from a dam maintained by the Moline Water-Power Company; and there is a large electric-power plant . The most important industry is the manufacture of agricultural implements (particularly steel ploughs, which seem to have been made here first in the United States, and corn-planters) . Among the other manufactures are boilers and gasolene engines, wagons and carriages, automobiles, and pianos and organs . The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway has a goo-acre yard and machine shop east of the city limits, and there is a large U.S. arsenal on Rock Island . Moline was settled in 1832, laid out as a town in 1842, and was chartered as a city in 1855 and rechartered in 1872 .