Monopoly of pasturage farms, 22 Mountains, Henry, 105 Uinta. (_See_ Uinta Mountains.) Wasatch. (_See_ Wasatch Mountains.) _Negundo aceroides_, 103 Nevada, Mean annual precipitation in, 79 New Mexico and Arizona, Seasonal precipitation in, 56 New Orleans and Nashville Railroad Company, Land grants to the, 168 New York, Rainfall of the State of, 70 Ogden River, Measured volume of the, 120 Ohio, Land grants to, 166, 167 Ohio Valley, Rainfall of the, 70 Orographic structure of the Book Cliffs, 98 Colorado drainage area, 95 Desert drainage area, 95 Uinta Mountains, 97 Wasatch Mountains, 96 Pacific coast, Seasonal precipitation and temperature of the, 55 Panguitch Valley, Amount of irrigable land in, 136 Paria River, Irrigable lands of the, 155 Volume of flow of the, 155 Park, Dr. John R., 59 Pasturage farms, Division lines of, 22, 28, 37 Irrigation of, 21 need small tracts of irrigable land, 21, 28 lands, 19, 24, 104 Pasturage lands, Boundaries of, 19 Disposal of, 28 Extent of, 19 Farm unit for, 21, 28 Fencing of, 23 Grasses of the, 19 Monopoly of the, 22 partially supplied by scattered springs, 21 Situation of the, 6 _Phragmites communis_, 109 _Pinus aristata_, 100 _edulis_, 100 _flexilis_, 100 _monticola_, 100 _ponderosa_, 100 Pioneers, Enterprise and industries of, 41 Plateaus, The High, 94 Plateau, Tavaputs, 93 Yampa, 105 _Poas_, 108 Ponding, 12, 13 Ponds, Evaporation of the water of, 73 _Populus angustifolia_, 102 _monilifera_, 102 _tremuloides_, 102 Precipitation in the Region of the Plains, 52 Mean annual, in Colorado, 79 Nevada, 79 Utah, 79 Wyoming, 79 north of the Columbia River, 1 of Dakota, 51 Texas, 50 the Arid Region, 48 Region of the Lower Columbia, 49 San Francisco Region, 49 Sub-humid Region, 47 Precipitation, Seasonal, of the Pacific Coast, 55 Price River, Irrigable lands of the, 159 Volume of flow of the, 159 Provo River, 121 Public lands, How to acquire title to, 25 _Quercus undulata_, 103 Railroads, Land grants in aid of, 165, 168, 172 Rainfall, Areal distribution of, 82 Conditions affecting the distribution of, 90 Rainfall, Distribution of, throughout the year, 50 Increase of, 91 of the Arid Region, 5, 48 belt between Great Salt Lake and Wasatch Mountains, 6, 79 Sub-humid Region, 4, 47 of the western portion of the United States, 46 Rain gauge records, 1, 3, 91, 131 Deficiency of, 1 “Rainy seasons”, 25, 50 Ranges, Basin, 94 Records, Rain gauge, 1, 3, 91, 131 Region of the Lower Columbia. (_See_ Lower Columbia Region.) of the Plains, Seasonal precipitation in the, 52 San Francisco. (_See_ San Francisco Region.) Sub-humid. (_See_ Sub-humid Region.) Renshawe, Mr. J. H., 113, 153