Laredo
a city and county-seat of Webb co., Tex.; on the International and and Great Northern, the Mexican National, and several other railroads; 153 miles W. of San Antonio. It is the trade center for the Rio Grande border. Laredo is in the great Rio Grande coal belt; is a health resort for victims of lung troubles; the seat of Laredo Seminary; contains Mercy and Mexican National Railroad Hospitals; and has manufactures of lumber and cigars, deposits of coal, iron, lead, zinc and copper, a large interna tional and local trade, National banks , daily and weekly periodicals, and an a sessed property valuation of $2,000,000 .
Pop. (1910) 14,855; (1920) 22,710.