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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALINA , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Saline county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., on the Smoky See also:Hill See also:river, near the mouth of the Saline river, about See also:loo m. W. of See also:Topeka. Pop. (1905) 7829; (1910) 9688. It is served by the See also:Atchison, Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the See also:Missouri Pacific and the See also:Union Pacific See also:railways. Salina has a See also:Carnegie library, and isthe seat of Kansas Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal; chartered in 1885, opened in 1886) and of St See also:John's Military School (See also:Protestant Episcopal). The city is the see of a Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop. Salina is the central See also:market of a fertile farming region. See also:Power is furnished by the river, and among the manufactures are See also:flour, agricultural implements, foundry products and carriages. The first See also:settlement on the site of Salina was made in 1857. Its first railway, the Union Pacific, came through in 1867. Salina was first chartered as a city in 187o.

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