SIOUX CITY. The county seat of Woodbury County, Iowa, 156 miles northwest of Des Moines; on the Missouri River, at the junc tion of the Big Sioux and the Floyd (Map: Iowa, A 2). Among the railroads that enter the city are the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul. the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago. Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, the Illinois Cen tral. the Great Northern, and the Union Pacific, It is the seat of Morningside College (Methodist Episcopal), opened in 1890, and of the Sioux City College of Medicine. The public library con tains nearly 15,000 volumes. The high school building, Saint Joseph's Mercy Hospital, and the German Lutheran and the Samaritan hospi tals are other prominent features. The most noteworthy of the city parks is the Floyd Memo rial, 20 acres in area, along the river front. Sioux City is situated in an extensive corn growing and stock-raising region. In the census vear 1900 capital to the amount of $5,691,644 was invested in the various industries, which had an output valued at $15,469,702. There are flour
ing and grist mills, foundries, machine shops, meat-packing establishments, saddlery and har ness manufactories, and a brewery. Cudahy, .Arnionr, and Swift have large packing plants here, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul and the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railways have extensive machine and re pair shops. The city spends annually for main tenance and operation about $361,000, the prin cipal items being: schools, $123,000; streets, $42 000; tire department, $30,000; interest on debt, $24,000; water-works, $24,000: municipal light ing, $17,000. The water-works are owned by the municipality. Settled as a trading station in 1849, Sioux City was laid out in 1854 and was chartered as a city iu 1857. During its early years it was an important military post, and was the place where the various Black Hills expedi tions were fitted out. Population, in 1890, 37, 806; in 1900, 33.111.