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RENO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Washoe county, See also:Nevada, U.S.A., in the W. See also:part of the See also:state, on the Truckee See also:river, and about 244 M . E. of See also:San Francisco . Pop . (1890) 3563; (1900) 4500 (915 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910 See also:census) 10,867 . It is served by the See also:Southern Pacific, the See also:Virginia & Truckee and the Nevada-See also:California-See also:Oregon See also:railways . The city lies near the See also:foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 4484 ft. above the See also:sea, and is in the most humid See also:district of a state which has little rainfall . Among the public institutions are the university of Nevada (see NEVADA), a See also:United States Agricultural Experiment Station, a public library (1903), the Nevada See also:Hospital for See also:Mental Diseases (1882), the City and County Hospital and the See also:People's Hospital . At Reno are railway shops (of the Nevada-California-Oregon railway) and reduction See also:works, and the manufactures include See also:flour, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, See also:lumber, See also:beer, See also:plaster and packed meats . Farming and stock-raising are carried on extensively in the vicinity . On the site of the See also:present city a road See also:house was erected in 1859 for the See also:accommodation of travellers and See also:freight teams on their way to and from California . By 1863 this See also:place had become known as See also:Lake's See also:Crossing, and five years latei it was chosen as a site for a station by the Central (now the Southern) Pacific railway, then See also:building through the Truckee Valley . The new station was then named Reno, in See also:honour of Gen .
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