Creator
Marsden Manson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
801 Union Trust Biog
July 29th 1907.
My Dear Prof Muir
Your letter of the 26th inst is just received It is not possible for me to give you maps of the reservoir, but I can give you a full description each. In Lake Weaver the dam will be about 1/4 to 1/3 mile below the out-let of the present [lake?] & the surface of the lake when the [dam?] is full during all months except late Sept. Oct Nov. & Dec. will be about 1 1/2 greater than present area. In Hetch Hetchy the dam will be in the gorge at lower end of valley and will back water nearly 3 miles with an average moth of about 1/4 mile covering I think 1700 acres. The maximum height will be nearly to the base of the falls on the north wall. The lake will be full or nearly so during those months when the mountaineer can visit the region. The dams should be of [rustic?] [illegible] faced masonry & practically a part of the enclosing walls, in no way det[illegible]ing from the surroundings & not reaching with b[illegible] water the great canon [diacritic] which is the feature of the region.
Sincerely yours
Marsden Manson.
03897
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1907 Jul 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Manson, Marsden, "Letter from Marsden Manson to John Muir, 1907 Jul 29." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3721.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3721
Resource Identifier
muir16_0851-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0851
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
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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.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
