Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch Hetchy Valley and Stop The Commerical Destruction That Threatens Our National Parks. To the American People.
Files
Kimes Entry Number
317C
Original Date
1-1-1913
Publication
[Circular Variant 2 of Circular Number Seven]. San Francisco: Society for the Preservation of National Parks, California Branch.
Page/Column
p. [1] of 4 pp.
Size/Description
34 cm.
Location
CU-B
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch Hetchy Valley and Stop The Commerical Destruction That Threatens Our National Parks. To the American People." (1913). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 360.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/360
William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
This article is an edited version of no. 287, which ahs been brought up to date for the emerging crisis arising from the Hetch Hetchy dam legislation. Muir writes: ""For the preservation of this valley, we make this public appeal in the belief that the people will not sit idly by while a municipality, that admits it can obtain sufficient water from several other sources by paying a little more, is trying to destory and convert to its own uses the wonderful Hetch Hetchy Valley in the Yosemite National Park, by cutting down its magnificient groves of nature's own planting and burying its gardens and lawns two hundred feet deep for a water tank."" After detailing some of the history of the Hetch Hetchy crisis, Muir asks, ""Will comparative cheapness constitute a valid excuse in the eyes of the nation and the world for the invasion of Yosemite National Park and the destruction of one of its two greatest scenic features?"". We have designated this unnumbered Circular as Variant 2 of Circular Number Seven, which appears to be part of a series. In this Circular, pages [2]-[4] are designated as ""Sheet Two, Sheet Three, etc., which assists in identifying this Variant.