Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
16
Martinez, Sep. 11, 1913
Dear Johnson:
Doubtless ere this you have received my letter of last of Aug. with list of newspapers & check for Lentz's bill including the $15 Sullivan bill as we wish to keep free from all doubtful entanglements.
Also we mailed you a lot of our new circulars of which 5000 were printed. Half or more have already been distributed
We are now preparing another probably smaller discussing particular points. Doing all we can to bring the influence of women into the fight & to get all our Club members to write short protest letters to senators & the President.
Garfield wished to turn over the Hetch Hetchy to the S.F. schemers almost unconditionally. It was Roosevelt who tried
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to save the valley, at least for a generation or two, by compelling San Francisco to first develop the Lake Eleanor & Cherry River sources to the utmost, take this supply to the city & use it until it proved inadequate. Then & not 'til then could H. Hy. be dammed.
The real motive, as far as I can see, that determines Mr Phelans action in the matter is political ambition. While Spreckles wished to get possession of the city street cars & the Hetch Hetchy water-power to run them. This I think lay at the bottom of the ousting of the boodling board of supervisors with the aid of Burns, & the election of another boodle board.
(2) The San Joaquin farmers are far from satisfied but unable to make their wants known against their political opponents.
(3) See above. Use your own judgment as to small circular & go ahead.
I sent you list of papers & will send some quotations from them later.
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(4) See above. We omitted picture on account of difficulty of getting good one on common paper.
(5) Dont know yet about going to Washington.
(6) See above. Were trying to stir up the south Cal folk. Most of the papers here have been bought by the enemy. Anyhow I think the right will prevail. All the world is indebted to you for the grand work you are doing. Go ahead in your own way. Get out a smaller circular in a little different tone. Colby leaves today to be gone a month, & Bade is writing a book leaving the fight to Parsons & your steadfast friend
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1913 Sep 11
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1913 Sep 11." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4084.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4084
Resource Identifier
muir21_0750-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0750
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
