AUSTIN, a city of Minnesota, U.S.A., 9om. S. of Minne apolis and St. Paul, on the beautiful Red Cedar river; the county seat of Mower county. It is a division point of the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul railway, and is served also by the Chicago Great Western. The population was 10,118 in 1920, of whom 1,162 were foreign-born white; and was 12,276 1930 Federal cen sus. Austin is a market for the fine live stock and dairy products of Mower county. It has a packing plant which uses over ',coo, coo hogs a year; three hatcheries, one of which has a capacity of 600,000 chicks; greenhouses which ship over 3,00o roses daily; railway shops; and a number of smaller industries. The city owns and operates its water, light and power plant, and has a fine sewage-disposal plant (built 1927). At the head of Main street is the Horace Austin State Park, and the city maintains five other parks. Austin was settled in 1855, incorporated as a village in 1868, and chartered as a city in 1873.