WEBB

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a city of Jasper county, Missouri, U.S.A., in the S.W. part of the state, about 16o m . S. of Kansas City . Pop . (1890) 5043; (1900) 9201, of whom 248 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 11,817 . It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the St Louis & San Francisco railway systems, and is the headquarters of the electric interurban railway connecting with Carthage and Joplin, Missouri, Galena, Kansas and other cities . With Carterville (pop . 1910, 4539), which adjoins it on the E., it forms practically one city; they are among the most famous and productive " camps " in the rich lead and zinc region of south-western Missouri, and Webb City owes its industrial importance primarily to the mining and shipping of those metals . The value of the factory product increased from $353,566 in 1900 to $637,965 in 1905 . Webb City was laid out and incorporated as a town in 1875, and first chartered as a city in 1876 . White lead was discovered here in 1873, on the farm of John C . Webb, in whose honour the city is named; and systematic mining began in 1877 .