MUSKOGEE 



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MUSKOKA LAKES 



Food Value. Muskmelons have almost the 

 same fuel and nutritive value as peaches, and 

 they compare favorably with apples, pears and 

 oranges as a table fruit. Their chemical com- 

 position is on the average as follows: \\at.r 



lifomia 

 A07 



New Jersey 

 3O6 



Florida 

 230 



Colorado 

 334. 



Maryland 



Georgia 

 209 



Figures Represent Thousands of Dollars 



THE AVERAGE CROP 



Including: both muskmelons and cantaloupes, 

 from six principal growing centers. 



89.5 per cent; protein, 0.6; carbohydrates 

 (starches and sugars), 9.3; ash, 0.6. They 

 have a fuel value of 185 calories per pound (see 

 CALORIE; FOOD, subhead Chemistry of Foods). 

 Like other table fruits, their high water con- 

 tent makes them a valuable laxative food, and 

 thi-ir agreeable taste and tempting appearance 

 help to make eating them a delight, thus serv- 

 int: the appetite and the digestion. M.W. 



MUSKOGEE, musko'ge, OKLA., the county 

 seat of Muskogee County and a railroad center 

 and distributing point of importance. It is 

 situated at the head of navigation on the Ar- 

 kansas River, forty-five miles from the eastern 

 state line and about midway between the 

 northern and southern state borders. McAles- 

 > sixty-four miles southwest, and Kansas 

 is 250 miles north and east. Four railway 

 M-m- the city the Missouri, Kansas & 

 f, the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf, tin 

 >ii.l V ,11. y and the Saint Louis & San 

 Muskogee was settled in 1890 and 

 was incorporated as a city in 1898; it adopted 

 commission form of government in 1910. 

 name is that of a Creek tribe of Indians, 

 and is said to signify an abundance of t/vr 

 An increase in population from 25,278 in 1910 

 ; 1.218 (Federal estimate) in 1916 marks it a 

 of rapid Ki.>\\th. The area is eight and 

 half square miles. 



Hiding OOCD ;ral re- 



'cs and well adapted to growing cotton, 



grain (especially wheat), fruits, vegetables and 



alfalfa, but cattle raising is the chief industry. 

 The agricultural products named, with the 

 manufactured products, hardware, implements 

 and brooms, comprise the leading articles of 

 commerce. The large machine shops of the 

 Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad are lo- 

 cated here ; the city also has cotton compresses, 

 cotton gins and oil refineries. Oil and natural 

 gas are found in abundance. In keeping with 

 the city's recent growth are its public and busi- 

 ness buildings, the most notable being the ten- 

 story structures of the Severs Hotel and the 

 Barnes office building, each costing $350,000; 

 the Metropolitan, Phoenix, Surety, Flynn-Ames 

 buildings and the courthouse, all constructed 

 of reenforced concrete, and costing from $250,- 

 000 to $300,000 each. The Federal building, 

 completed in 1915 at a cost of $750,000, is the 

 largest government building in the southwest. 

 An imposing high school building is also worthy 

 of note. Muskogee has Saint Joseph's College, 

 Bacone Indian University (Baptist), opened in 

 1884, the Oklahoma Woman's College, the 

 Oklahoma State School for the Blind, the 

 Spaulding Female Institute, a business college 

 and a Carnegie Library. The city is the head- 

 quarte.rs of a government Indian agent. Fea- 

 tures of interest in the vicinity are Fort Gibson 

 and a national cemetery. E.D.B. 



MUSKOKA, musko'kah, LAKES, a chain of 

 Canadian lakes, in the northwest part of the 

 Ontario peninsula. They lie twenty to thirty 

 miles east of Georgian Bay, and about midway 

 between Toronto on the south and the main 

 line of the Canadian Pacific Railway on the 

 north. The Muskoka district, from the shores 

 of Georgian Bay eastward, is one of the most 

 famous pleasure grounds in America, and is 

 visited each year by thousands of tourists and 

 summer residents. It includes from 800 t^ 

 1,000 lakes, and comprises an area of 3.500 or 

 4,000 square miles. Most of tin- region is in- 

 cluded in the so-calN-d "highlands of Ontario," 

 and has an average altitude of 200 feet al> 

 Lake Huron. 



The characteristic ruggedness of the Lauren- 

 ti.ni Highlands is perhaps the chief i 

 traction. The hundreds of lakes and small 

 streams are bordered by stately pines, giant 

 hnnlocks, fragrant balsams and wide-preadmn 

 maples. The shores arc generally high and 

 somewhat rocky; granitr and jniHs.- 

 predominating rocks. The total absence of 

 ivet tin- waters of th- 



region a special medicinal value, especially to 

 persona whose blood pressure is very high. But 



