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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CARSON, CHRISTOPHER [" KIT "] (1809-1868)

CARSON See also:
CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)
CITY , the See also:

capital of See also:

Nevada, U.S.A., and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county seat of Ormsby county, about 120 M. N.E. of See also:

SACRAMENTO

Sacramento, See also:

California. Pop. (1890) 3950; (rgoo) 2100; (1910) 2466. It is served by the See also:

Virginia and Truckee railway, which has repair shops here, and by See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage to See also:

Lake Tahoe, 12 M. W. of the city. It is picturesquely situated in See also:

EAGLE (Fr. aigle, from the Lat. aquila)

Eagle valley, near the See also:

east See also:

BASE

base of the Sierra Nevada, at an See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of 4720 ft. above the See also:

sea. Within 1 m. of the city are Shaws Hot Springs. The city is a distributing point for the neighbouring See also:

MINING

mining region. Among the public buildings are the capitol, the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

government See also:

BUILDING

building, a United States See also:

mint, and a See also:

state orphans' See also:

home; in the vicinity are the state See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison and a United States government school for See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. The See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial interests of the city are principally in mining, lumbering and See also:

agriculture. It has an excellent See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply of See also:

mountain See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring See also:

WATER

Carson City (named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher Carson) was settled in 1851 as a trading See also:

POST

post, was laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1858, was made the capital of the state and the county seat of the newly erected county in 1861, and was chartered as a city in 1875.

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