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WEBB CITY

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEBB See also:CITY  , a See also:city of See also:Jasper See also:county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., in the S.W. See also:part of the See also:state, about 16o m . S. of See also:Kansas City . Pop . (1890) 5043; (1900) 9201, of whom 248 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 11,817 . It is served by the Missouri Pacific and the St See also:Louis & See also:San Francisco railway systems, and is the headquarters of the electric interurban railway connecting with See also:Carthage and See also:Joplin, Missouri, See also: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 See also:rich See also:lead and See also:zinc region of See also:south-western Missouri, and See also:Webb City owes its See also:industrial importance primarily to the See also:mining and See also: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 See also:town in 1875, and first chartered as a city in 1876 . See also:White lead was discovered here in 1873, on the See also:farm of See also:John C . Webb, in whose See also:honour the city is named; and systematic mining began in 1877 .

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