Creator
Marsden Manson
Recipient
John Muir
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[letterhead]801 [illegible] Trust B[illegible]gAug 9th 1907My dear Prof Muir:Your letter of the 8th inst. is just before me. I regret that I was not in my office when you called; &, have just gotten back from a weeks trip.There are something over a dozen reservoir sites surveyed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Tuolumne basin. Of these Hetch Hetchy is the largest. I do not think that any serious damage can be made to the National Park by the full utilization of these reservoirs. The area of the Park is something over 1500 square miles The reservoir area is not one per cent of this none of the grand features of the region will be interfered with, even in Hetch Hetchy the great breeding spots of the musquito will be broken up.Nature has forever put a stop to utilizing Yosemite Valley by denying a good foundation. But whether in this generation or the next or a later one, the full utilization of all practicable reservoir sites will be made to supply successive generations of mothers & children with pure water &03912
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1907-08-09 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir16_0903-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0903
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
