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See also:SIOUX See also:CITY
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Woodbury county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Big See also:Sioux with the See also:Missouri See also:river, about 156 m
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N.W. of See also:Des Moines
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Pop
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(189o) 37,806; (1900) 33,111, of whom 6592 were See also:foreign-See also:born (including 146o See also:Swedish, 1176 See also:German and 1054 See also:Norwegian); (1910, See also:census) 47,828
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It is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & See also:Saint See also:Paul, the Chicago & See also:North-Western, the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Omaha, the Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the See also:Illinois Central, and the See also:Great See also:Northern See also:railways
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The bluffs approach the Missouri more closely at this point than elsewhere in the See also:state, so that little more than manufacturing establishments and business blocks are built on the bottom lands, and the residences are spread over the slope and See also:summit of the bluffs
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The city has a public library (housed in the city See also: The principal hospitals are the Samaritan, the St See also:Joseph's See also:Mercy, and the German Lutheran . Sioux City is the see of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop . The Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha have shops here; See also:meat packing is an important See also:industry, and the city has large stock yards . As a manufacturing centre, it ranked first in 190o and third in 1905 among the cities of the state; the value of its factory See also:pro-duct in 1905 was $14,760,751 . Its manufactures include slaughtering and meat-packing products, cars and See also:car repairing, See also:linseed oil, bricks and tiles (made from excellent See also:clay found in and near the city) . The city does a large wholesale and distributing business . Sioux City was settled about 185o, was platted in 18J4, becoming the headquarters of a See also:United States See also:Land Office, was incorporated in 1856, and was chartered as a city in 1857 . It was the starting-point of various expeditions sent against the Sioux See also:Indians of the See also:Black Hills . |
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