INDEX 



Johnson County, Wyoming, 212. 

 Jones, Governor John E., 199. 



KANSAS, growth of, 17. 

 Kansas, irrigation in, 110. 

 Kentucky, growth of, after Revolu- 

 tion, 15. 

 Kootenai River, Montana, 224. 



LA PLATA RIVER, New Mexico, 229. 



Lassen County, California, 146. 



Lewis and Clarke, tho famous jour- 

 ney of, 23. 



Lewiston, Idaho, 183. 



Libyan Desert, 36. 



Lincoln, Abraham, a type of set- 

 tlers engaged in great era of col- 

 onization, 17. 



Lincoln County, Nevada, 195. 



Los Angeles, California, 103. 



Louisiana Purchase, 22. 



MACAULAY, LORD, quoted, 245. 



Madison Valley, Montana, 223. 



Malheur River Valley, Oregon, 192. 



Manhattan Valley, Montana, 225. 



Massachusetts Bay Company, 294. 



Maxwell Land Grant, 230. 



Mead, Elwood : Service in Agri- 

 cultural College of Colorado, 215 ; 

 important work as State engineer 

 of Wyoming, 217-220. 



Mocker, Nathan Cook: Experience 

 with Trumbull Phalanx, 79 ; first 

 trip to the Far West, 80 ; origini- 

 ates Colorado project, 80; death 

 of, 91. 



Mesa City, Arizona, 239. 



Milk River Valley, Montana, 223. 



Mills, workingmen's hotels of D. 0., 

 274. 



Minnesota, growth of, 17. 



Missoula, Montana, 227. 



Missouri River in Montana, 223- 

 226. 



Modjcska, the California colony of 

 Madame, 256. 



Modoc County, California, 146. 



Moeris Lake, 36. 



Mohammedans, their admiration for 

 Damascus, 42. 



Monroe, President James, 22. 



Montana: The prosperity of, 222; 

 influence of mountain topography, 

 222; early ditches, 223; oppor- 

 tunities for settlers, 224 ; fruit 

 culture, 225 ; Agricultural College 

 of, 225 ; important valleys, 225 ; 

 social and political life, 226; cities 

 and towns, 227. 



Moors, 34. 



Mormons of Utah : Their common- 

 wealth, 51 ; pioneers of American 

 irrigation, 51 ; illustrate natural 

 economic tendencies of irriga- 

 tion, 52 ; arrival of first party in 

 Salt Lake Valley, 52 ; system of 

 landownership, 57 ; plan of diver- 

 sified farms, 61 ; opposed to min- 

 ing, 63 ; financial results of their 

 labors for forty years, 67 ; four 

 leading principles of industrial 

 system, 70; mortgage of indebted- 

 ness, 71 ; relation of church or- 

 ganization to industrial success, 74. 



Moscow, Idaho, 184. 



Mountain Home, Idaho, 183. 



Musser, A. Milton., 67. 



NAMPA, Idaho, 183. 



Navajo, Indians, New Mexico, 235. 



Nebraska, growth of, 17. 



Nebraska irrigation, 115. 



Netherlands, civilization of, com- 

 pared with arid region, 32. 



Nevada : The potential greatness 

 of, 194 ; unfounded prejudices in, 

 194; silver production of tin; 

 past in, 195 ; undeveloped mineral 

 wealth, 1% ; agricultural resources 

 of, 198; unused waters of, 199; 

 diversion of Nevada wealth to 

 other localities, 202 ; the railroad 

 situation of, 203 ; future of the 

 State of, 205. 



New Mexico : Inadequacy of water 

 supplies, 228 ; the northwestern 

 counties, 2'J'. ; the !:uil grants in, 



