COUNCIL BLUFFS

a city of Iowa, in Pot to watt amie co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Mi ouri River, opposite Omaha, Nebraska, with which it is connected by several bridges. The city is the eastern terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad, and is the junction point of all eastern railroads which join that line. It is located at the foot of high bluffs, 4 miles from the river. The city is a trading center for southern Iowa. It is also important industrially and has repair shops, stock yards, grain elevators and other interests. The principal industries include printing and publishing, flour and grist milling and the making of brick. The city is connected with Omaha by electrical railway, and has several fine parks. The notable buildings in elude a court house, U. 8. Government building, high school, Masonic Temple, and Union Depot. There is a library, Y. M. C._A. and the State Institution for Deaf Mutes. The city derives its name from a council held on the bluffs, between the Indians and the explorers, Lewis and Clarke. In 1846 it was a Mormon settlement, and in 1853 received a city charter. Pop. 1920, 36,162,