Creator
J. Horace McFarland
Recipient
James R. Garfield
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HETCH-HETCHY DAMMING SCHEME(Memorandum from John Muir, President the Sierra Club,received May 14, 1908,by J. Horace McFarland, President American Civic Association)The better part of the world is beginning to know that beauty plays an important part in human progress, and that regarded even from the lowest financial standpoint it is one of the most precious and productive assets any country can possess.Most of our forests have already vanished in lumber and smoke,mostly smoke. Fortunately the Federal Government is now faithfully protecting and developing nearly all that is left of our forest and stream resources; nor even in these money-mad commercial days have our beauty resources been altogether forgotten. Witness the magnificent wild parks of the west, set apart and guarded for the highest good of all, and the thousands of city parks made to satisfy the natural taste and hunger for landscape beauty that God in some measure has put into every human being.Timber and water are universal wants, and of course the government is aware that no scheme of management of the public domain failing to provide for them can possibly be maintained. But however abundantly supplied from legitimate sources, every national park is besieged by thieves and robbers and beggars with all sorts of plans and pleas for possession of some coveted treasure of water, timber, pasture, rights of way, etc. Nothing dollarable is safe, however guarded. Thus the Yosemite Park, the beauty glory of California and the Nation, Nature's own mountain wonderland, has been attacked by spoilers ever since it was established,
Location
Harrisburg, Pa.
Date Original
1908 May 19
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir17_0581-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0581
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
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Page Number
Page 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
