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February 10th, 1893. R. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R.U. JONSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR .C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. John Muir,
Esq. Martinez, California. My dear Muir Now, if ever, is the time to push Yosemite recession to a vote in the California
Legislature, as well as to labor with the Governor in ease you see any prospect of getting the bill through(illegible) I say
now , because I have just had an interview with Mr. Alien, special agent of the Department, who tells me that he saw you in
San Francisco, and that Noble's great scheme for the reservation of the upper Sierra, from Wawona to the latitude of Bakersfield,
is to be proclaimed very soon. For reasons which I have already expressed to you in a recent letter which you had not received
when you wrote your note of the 3rd of February, nothing practical can be done in Congress until we hear the result of the
movement in the California Legislature. It is very desirable that if you cannot succeed you should get the thing to a vote,
at least, for that would give us an excuse for moving for an investigation* as 1 shall certainly do upon the reassembling
of Congress in extra session, this spring. I shall have a motion made for a Congressional investigation, and report 01424