118 GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. 
Atlas sheet. 
Montrose — Continued. 
tivation in 1900. The population in 1900 was 4,535; and of 
Montrose, the county seat, 1,217. In 1900 the average 
magnetic declination was 13° 4(Y east. The mean annual 
rainfall is about 13 inches, and the mean annual tempera- 
ture 50° to 55°. 
Montrose; county seat of Montrose County on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad; altitude, 5, S01 feet. 
Montville; village in Costilla Oounty. 
Monument; bluff in Mineral County. 
Monument; butte in Routt County. 
Monument, creek in El Paso County, a left-hand branch of 
Fountain Creek, tributary to Arkansas River Colorado Springs. 
Monument; gulch in Ouray County, tributary to Red Moun- 
tain Creek Silverton. 
Monument: hill in La Plata County; altitude, 10,820 feet Durango. 
Monument; post town in El Paso County, on the Denver and 
Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail- 
ways; population in 1900, 156; altitude, 7,001 feet Castle Rock. 
Monument Park; valley in El Paso County, north of Colorado 
Springs, containing many curious monuments of sandstone 
produced by wind erosion. 
Moon Anchor; station in Teller County on Colorado Springs 
and Cripple Creek District Railway. 
Moores; creek in Logan and Sedgwick counties, a left-hand 
branch of South I'latte River. 
Mooreville; station in Jefferson County on Colorado and South- 
ern Railway Denver. 
Moqui; post village in Montezuma County. 
Moraine; lake in El PasoCounty; altitude, 10,268 feet Colorado Springs. 
Moraine; town in Larimer County; altitude, 7,900 feet. 
Moraine Park; post village in Larimer County. 
Morgan; county in the northeastern part of the State; bounded 
on the north by Weld and Logan counties, on the east by 
Logan and Washington counties, on the south by Washing- 
ton and A < Ian is counties, and on the west by Weld County. 
It is traversed east and west by the Union Pacific and the 
Burlington and Missouri River railroads. The wide valley 
of the South Platte extends across the center, and to the 
north and south are rolling plains. The area is 1,264 square 
miles, of which 5 per cent, or 43,282 acres, were under cul- 
tivation in 1900. The population in 1900 was 3,268; and of 
Fort Morgan, the county seat, 634. In 1900 the average 
magnetic declination was 13° 40' east. The mean annual 
rainfall is about 11 inches, and the mean annual tempera- 
ture 50° to 55°. 
Morland; town in El Paso County. 
Morley; post village in Las Animas County on Atchison, 
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; altitude, 6,739 feet Spanish Peaks. 
Morris; station in Garfield County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad. 
Morrison; mountain in Jefferson County; altitude, 7,900 feet. Denver. 
