ARGENTINE

argentine, a former city of wyandotte county, kansas, u.s.a., since 1910 a part of kansas city, on the s. bank of the kansas river, just above its mouth. pop. (1890) 4732; (1900) 5878, of whom 623 were foreign-born and 603 of negro descent; (1905, state census) 6053. it is served by the atchison, topeka & santa fe railway, which maintains here yards and machine shops. the streets of the city run irregularly up the steep face of the river bluffs. its chief industrial establishment is that of the united zinc and chemical company, which has here one of the largest plants of its kind in the country. there are large grain interests. the site was platted in 1880, and the city was first incorporated in 1882 and again, as a city of the second class, in 1889.