Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[William] Colby

Transcription

Martinez, Jan. 15 [19]07

Dear Mr. Colby:

I herewith return the draft of a Club report on Kings River region with my hearty approval, excepting the first two pages of the MS. in which the Yosemite and Kings River regions are compared. Every possible aid and encouragement should be given by the Club for the preservation, road and trail building, etc., for the development of the magnificent Kings River region, but unjust, one-sided comparisons, seeking to build up and glorify one region at the expense of lowering the other is useless work and should be left to real estate agents, promoters, rival hotel and stage owners, etc. Certainly the Club has nothing to do with such stuff, "Tremendous advantages", "Wealth and variety of mountain sculpture" depending on greater "depths and heights", etc., suggest boys with eyes to depth and height of butter and honey seeing tremendous advantages in one slice of bread over another cut from the same loaf.
Have you seen the President's Proclamation of December 8, 1906 creating the "Petrified Forest National Monument" under the Act of Congress of June 8[1896]? Contains 25,625 Dec. 1906 acres and includes the Blue Jasper ForestHelen and I found.
The large new forest to the North of Adamana is to be added to theabove.
Come up some Saturday night or Sunday and talk over matters.

Faithfully yours,

John Muir.

03818

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Circa Date

[19]07 Jan 15

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0569-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0569

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. 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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

Share

COinS
 
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.