Muscatine

Muscatine, capital of Muscatine county, Iowa, is on the west bank of the Mississippi, built mostly on rocky bluffs, where the river makes a great bend to the south, 211 miles by rail WSW. of Chicago. It has a large trade by river and rail, and contains great pork-packing establishments, as well as flour and lumber mills, and plough and furniture factories. Pop. (1890) 11,445.