HUTCHINSON, a city of Kansas, U.S.A., on the Arkansas river, 6om. N.W. of Wichita, at an altitude of 1,553ft.; the county seat of Reno county. It is on a Federal highway and is served by the Missouri Pacific, the Rock Island and the Santa Fe railways. The population in 1925 (State census) was 25,97o; 1930 it was 27,085. Hutchinson is the fourth city of the State in size. It ships great quantities of grain (7,00o,000bu. in 1927), flour, poultry, dairy products, live stock and lumber. Under the city and its environs are thick beds of salt, from which an average of 15,00o barrels of salt a day is produced. There are large pack ing plants and grain elevators, creameries, flour mills, a soda ash plant, a bag factory and a strawboard factory. The factory output in 1927 was valued at $17,000,000. Hutchinson was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1872. The State industrial reformatory is situated here.