Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[William C.] Hendricks
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Transcription
2 [3]of the quarty sands & gravels of your deep places. Keith has just received a check from Wilson of Cinncin =ati for $2,500.00 gold for a painting 6 ½ ft by 4, & though a large price, the landscape is well worth the money. I wish something could be done this season by your law builders for the preservation of our magnificent forests. No part of the resources of our young state is so little apprec= =iated, & so ruthlessly destroyed. Destruction in this particular is infinitely greater than fair use [4]& once destroyed can never be fully restored. The forests should be carefully explored, & the area of each kind of timber, together with its value, & the means necessary for its preservation carefully studied & estimated. So also as regards the available water supply for mining & agricultural purposes, & the methods for saving it, the greatest ignorance & confusion prevails. It seems to me that the first labors of a scientific survey ought to be directed towards finding out what nature has bestowed, what minerals, what
Location
San Francisco [Calif.]
Date Original
1875 Nov 20
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0347-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0347
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
California Historical Society. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
