Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
[illegible] 66a
Martinez, Jan. 23. 1899.
My dear Johnson,
I learned the other day from a reliable source that 200000 sheep were pastured in the Sierra Forest Reservation this last season. & that a company of sheep owners & speculators have sent a man to Washington to try to obtain a lease of the reservation for pasturage for next season. & that they claim to Sierra Club favors leasing the forest lands for this fine use. This is as we might expect after the Washington & Oregon resources were thrown open. Do you know the new Secretary of the Int
or the head of the Land Office I have written to our Senator & Pinchot. Pinchot says he can do little in the matter an editorial in the magazine would be a grand help & in the N.Y. newspapers.
This has been a deadly hard year for forests destruction has gone forward without let or hindrance & the outlook is discouraging. A fine J.P. Irish year. Sheep year. Grippe year I hope you have escaped the grippe a miserable disease. Mrs Muir is down with - has been in bed a month, Try to head off those forest destroyers in Washington
Ever Yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899 Jan 23
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Jan 23." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2344.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2344
Resource Identifier
muir10_0631-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0631
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
