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Atlas sheet. 
Mears Junction; station in Chaffee County on Denver and 
Rio Grande Railroad; altitude, 8,421 feet. 
Medicine Bow; range in the northern part of the State, a spur 
from Front Range separating North Platte River from Lar- 
amie River. 
Medicine Bow Forest Reserve; area, 1,806 square miles. 
Medio; station in Pitkin County on Crystal River Railroad- 
altitude, 8,688 feet, 
Medlen; village in Jefferson County. 
Meeker; post village and county seat of Rio Blanco County; 
population in 1900, 507; altitude, 6,182 feet. 
Meeker; town in Garfield County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad. 
Meily; village on boundary between Pitkin and Lake counties. 
Melville; creek in Clear Creek County, a left-hand branch of 
Vance Creek, tributary to South Platte River Georgetown 
Melvin; lake in Arapahoe County Denver. 
Melvin; station in Arapahoe County on Colorado and Southern 
Railway ; altitude, 5,576 feet Denver. 
Melvina; hill in Boulder County; altitude, 9,200 feet Boulder. 
Mendota; peak in San Miguel County Telluride. 
Menefee; mountains, a short range in Montezuma County La Plata. 
Menefee; peak in Montezuma County; altitude, 8,812 feet La Plata. 
Menefee; station in Montezuma County on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad ; altitude, 7,302 feet. 
MEenger ; village in Las Animas County - Spanish Peaks. 
iRtenoken; station in Montrose County on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad; altitude, 5,544 feet. 
MCercer; station in Logan County on Burlington and Missouri 
River Railroad; altitude, 4,427 feet. 
Meredith; hill in Otero County; altitude, 4,400 feet Catlin. 
Meredith; post village in Pitkin County on Colorado Midland 
Railway; altitude, 7,775 feet. 
Iteredith; station in Otero County on Missouri Pacific Railway; 
altitude, 4,308 feet Catlin. 
Meridian; hill in Park County Georgetown. 
Meridian; lake in Gunnison County Crested Butte. 
jlerino; post village in Logan County on Union Pacific Rail- 
road; altitude, 4,033 feet, 
lesa; county in the western part of the State; bounded on the 
north by Garfield County, on the east by Pitkin, Gunni- 
son, and Delta counties, on the south by Montrose County, 
and on the west by Utah. It is traversed by Grand and 
Gunnison rivers, and consists mostly of plateaus and broad 
desert valleys. Its area is 3,309 square miles, of which 1 J 
per cent, or 34,205 acres, were under cultivation in 1900. 
The population in 1900 was 9,267, and of Grand Junction, 
the county seat, 3,503. In 1900 the average magnetic dec- 
lination w r as 14° 35' east. The mean annual rainfall is 
about 13 inches, and the mean annual temperature 45° to 50°. 
!esa; creek in Montrose County, a right-hand branch of Do- 
lores River. 
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