Sublime Feature Of Yosemite May Be Destroyed. San Francisco Attempting to Make Hetch Hetchy Valley Into Reservoir. Destroy Its Beauty. Long-Continued Efforts to Utilize Lake Eleanor and the Valley to Secure WaterSupplyforCity-Both Scenic Features of Park.

Sublime Feature Of Yosemite May Be Destroyed. San Francisco Attempting to Make Hetch Hetchy Valley Into Reservoir. Destroy Its Beauty. Long-Continued Efforts to Utilize Lake Eleanor and the Valley to Secure WaterSupplyforCity-Both Scenic Features of Park.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

325

Original Date

7-27-1913

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

With a few paragraphs deleted, this article is a reprint of no. 258. In addition, there is a brief history of San Francisco's efforts to get Hetch Hetchy as a reservoir site, revealing a recent disclosure that a water report unfavorable to the city's plans had been withheld from the official report of the Army Corps of Engineers, thereby increasing the city's urgent need for Hetch Hetchy.

Publication

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Page/Column

p. 2, cols. 1-4.

Reprint/Offprint

With a few paragraphs deleted, this article is a reprint of no. 258.

Sublime Feature Of Yosemite May Be Destroyed. San Francisco Attempting to Make Hetch Hetchy Valley Into Reservoir. Destroy Its Beauty. Long-Continued Efforts to Utilize Lake Eleanor and the Valley to Secure WaterSupplyforCity-Both Scenic Features of Park.

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