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2 their reservoirs and then take what they need. None of them will categorically deny, I think, that this is their purpose.
They will justify their position by claiming the legal right to do this. While it is probably advisable to keep from the
public the figures which I gave in my letter to you in London, I have wanted to get before the S. F community the fact that
there is not sufficient water in the Tuolumne, unless the irrigationists are encroached upon. I have given the Argonaut an
article covering this: but am now indifferent as to whether they publish this, owing to the new proposition to purchase the
Spring Valley, which is certainly helping us.