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7 from the big land owners of the San Joaquin Valley in favor of the forest reservations? Mrs U. C. Carr might help in this
work as her husband is a very large land owner in the San Joaquin. The San Francisco Examiner might also be made interested
in this subject, because last year it published an editorial in favor of the forest Parks. I have been deliberating whether
it would do any good to try to enlist the interest of Ex President Harrison Mr Noble and Mr Johnson of the Century Magazine
in the forest reservations as it was partly through their efforts that the largest reservations were made. But possibly elections
matters may very likely make them have 02055 8 little interest in whether or not Mr Powers succeeds in decreasing the
area of those reservations. But more than all else will be the value of your words to the Committee on Public Lands and to
Congress on this subject. I hope they will hear from you. Before closing I want to speak a word about the larks. I hear that
the slaughtered innocents are being daily brought into the City. In San Jose, a society for the acclimatization of song and
game birds has been formed and it might possibly be influenced to help us protect our native meadow larks. I intend to write
to them and become a member of the society. Hoping that you will pardon me for troubling you and wishing 02055 9 you
a happy New Year I remain Your sincere friend Catherine H. Hittell 808 Turk Street P. S. I never in my life enjoyed
anything more than your lecture last month before the Sierra Club on California's forests and I must thank you for giving
me some of the happiest moments of my life. I love California so much that my greatest happiness comes when I see its beauties
or hear anyone praising and describing them, espeically a Californian like Mr Muir whose descriptions rival in beauty the
scenes described and through whose influence most of all, some of our glorious trees have been preserved. C. H. H. 02055