Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
Martinez, Nov. 7, 1907.
Dear Mr Johnson
I don't know anything about Mr. Bourne although I have often heard that the Hetch Hetchy & other Sierra water schemes were not made in good faith but as weapons of attack on the Spring Valley Co for pecuniary purposes. Every mention of Sierra water in the press always had something about the purchase of Spring Valley connected with it. Anyhow the call for Hetch Hetchy as a reservoir comes not from the citizens of S. F. but from Mr. Phelan & his few hired promoters & pleaders--such as Marsden Manson & Warren Olney. Strange that anything so important to the world should have so small & mean a cause.
A few weeks ago I took Keith into Hetchy. He made 38 sketches & says that in fine picturesque park like beauty it surpasses Yosemite. I have no news from Washington but hope more time will be given us to get light cast on the matter Most everything Phelan & his assistants say about the Valley is untrue or only partly true. I suppose my going to Washington would be useless. Cherry Valley & other basins on Cherry Creek outside the Park on the north could be made available for a city water supply even purer than Hetch Hetchy & in far greater abundance than will be required for generations
Thanks for your ever faithful help
John Muir
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1907 Nov 7
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1907 Nov 7." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3820.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3820
Resource Identifier
muir16_1175-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 1175
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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
