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3 the unpreserved trees in the Boulder Creek region. Here I saw some enormous trees, one of which Kanawyer pointed out to
me as bigger than the Gen. Grant. And yet you California people are going to let the Sanger Lumber Co. go in there next year
and cut every one of those superb trees down I am glad that I am not a citizen of California, to have that crime on my conscience.
I told an audience in Los Angeles that I thought it ought to be made a capital offence to cut down a Sequoia, and they applauded
me. Are there not enough like-minded people in California to prevent this threatened infernal slaughter? It is an unspeakable
shame and will be an everlasting disgrace to California if this thing is done. Better dam up the Hetch-Hetchy a hundred times
rather than allow these priceless trees to be cut down, for the Hetch-Hetchy Valley can be restored, after people come to
their senses and see the wickedness of damming it up; but once these 4,000-years old Sequoias are cut down, they can never
be restored. We people in the East are taking every possible means to preserve our ancient elms, but these trees are mere
infants of yesterday compared with California's Sequoias. That whole forest south of the King's, between Millwood and the
Canyon, ought to be un- 03995 reservedly protected in perpetuity. It is a sublime forest, and I was vexed because we had
to hasten through it so rapidly. Another time I mean to walk through it and take my time, if I have to spend a month there.
The art editor of the Los Angeles Times wrote up an interview with me on the King's River Canyon, a copy of which I enclose.
I don't imagine you will agree with me in my comparison between the Canyon and Yosemite, but that is the way it impressed
me. Doubtless the persistent prominence of a certain sort of human beings in the Yosemite and the contrasting primitiveness
and wildness of the King's led me to the conclusion which I have stated. I long to visit the Yosemite again, but I wish I
could see it without its repelling human adjuncts. I made a delightful acquaintance among the California pines and brought
home over a dozen cones of different species, - all except P. muricata and P. Torreyi, I believe. Later I shall hope to send
you some typical photographs. Southern California was hot, dry and dusty. We saw a good deal of Los Angeles, Red-lands, Riverside,
Pasadena, etc., but another time I must choose a different season for our visit. Our trip to Del Monte and the Monterey
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