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Mesquite Valley, Inyo County, Calif. 1"), 10-11. 



The name given to the northwest arm of Death Valley, 60 or 70 miles (95 <>r 110 

 kilometers) in length, which heads under Mount Magruder. The valley lies between 

 the Grapevine Mountains on the cast and the northern part of the Panamint Range 

 on the west Merriam, Bailey, Stephkns, Nelson. 



Mill Creek, Inyo County, Calif. 



A small stream at the extreme northwest end of Panamint Valley Nelson. 



Mineral King, Tulare County, Calif. Altitude about 9,000" feet (2,740 meters). E, 7. 



A summer resort and mining camp near the head of the East Fork of the Kawcah 



River, north of Farewell Gap Palmer, Bailey, Fisher, Nelson. 



Mohave,t Kern County, Calif. Altitude, 2,751 feet (838 meters). G, 8. 



A railroad station in the west end of the Mohave Desert, at the junction of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific with the Southern Pacific Railroad. 



Merriam, Palmer, Stephens. 

 Mohave t River, San Bernardino County, Calif. G-I, 10-12. 



The largest stream in the Mohave Desert, usually dry throughout the greater part 

 of its course; it rises on the north slope of the San Bernardino Mountains/east of 

 Cajon Pass, and flows north and then east into a sink known as ' Soda Lake' or the 

 'Sink of the Mohave.' The river was named by Fremont in 1844, who spelled the 

 word Mohahve. 

 Monterey, Calif. D, 1. 



A town on the bay of Monterey. Collections were made between Cypress Point 

 and Pacific Grove Merriam, Bailey. 



Mormon Mountains, Lincoln County, Nev. C-D, 16. 



A range in the eastern part of the State near the Utah line. 

 Moran's, Mono County, Calif. 



A ranch near the head of Owens Valley, about 6 miles (10 kilometers) east of Ben- 

 ton - Stephens. 



Morro, San Luis Obispo County, Calif. G, 3. 



A town on the coast about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northwest of San Luis Obispo. 



Nelson. 

 Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah. B-C, 17. 



A valley in the southwestern part of the Territory northwest of Pine Valley 



Mountain. The scene of the Mountain Meadow massacre Merriam, Bailey. 



Mountain Springs, Lincoln County, Nev. Altitude, 5,501 feet (1,677 meters). E, 14. 



Springs near the summit of the pass over the Charleston Mountains on the road 

 from Pahrump to Vegas Valley, about 6 or 8 miles (10 or 13 kilometers) north-north- 

 west of Olcott Peak Merriam, Bailey, Nelson. 



Mount Corcoran, California. Altitude, 14,093 feet (4,295 meters). E, 8. 



The ' Old Mount Whitney;' renamed by Albert Bierstadt, the artist, in honor of 

 W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C, the first name having been transferred to a 

 higher peak. (See Geog. Rept. Wheeler Survey, I, 1889, p. 99.) 



Mount LeConte, Inyo County, Calif. Altitude, 6,580 feet (2,005 meters). E, 11. 



This is the most prominent peak in the Funeral Mountains, as seen from Bennett 

 Wells in Death Valley. It is the highest point in the range and is nearly due east 

 of Telescope Peak. It was named in honor of Prof. Joseph LeConte, of the Univer- 

 sity of California, by James J. McGillivray,} of New York, who visited Death Valley 

 in 1883-4. 



t The spelling is that adopted by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. 



t See article entitled: ' In the Valley of Death.' in New York Times, May ( ?), 1891. 



