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To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning
them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural
features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. BOARD OF DIRECTORS-1904-1905 Mr. JOHN MUIR, President Martinez Prof. A. G. McADIE,
Vice-President Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. J. N. LE CONTE, Treasurer Berkeley Prof. W. R. DUDLEY, Cor. Sec'y Stanford University
Mr. WILLIAM E COLBY, Secretary Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. GEORGE DAVIDSON Berkeley Mr. J. S. HUTCHINSON, Jr. Claus Spreckels
Bldg., S. F. Mr. WARREN OLNEY 101 Sansome St., S. F. Mr. E. T. PARSONS University Club, S. F. (Vice Mr. ELLIOTT McALLISTER,
resigned) COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS: Pres. DAVID STARR JORDAN, Chairman Stanford Univ. Mr. ELLIOTT McALLISTER, Editor
Crocker Bldg., S. F. Prof. WM. F. BADE Berkeley Prof WM. R. DUDLEY Stanford University Mr. ALEX. G. EELLS Crocker Bldg.,
S. F. Mr. E. B. GOULD Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F. Mr. J. S. HUTCHINSON, Jr. Claus Spreckels Bldg., S. F. Mr. E. T.
PARSONS University Club, S. F. Prof. H. W. ROLFE Stanford University Mr. WILLOUGHBY RODMAN Bryson Block, Los Angeles SIERRA
CLUB 316 MILLS BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Muir-2 Club or not is a minor matter. Of course it is advisable for us to
work actively as we have in the past and what we have already done will of course aid the State Board of Trade materially.
I presume you have already noted the strenuous campaign the Examiner is making against the recession, though I do not imagine
it will accomplish its purpose, yet it will make the fight much harder the sentiment the Examiner is trying to stir up against
it. I have thought that perhaps a strong letter from you, which I know the Chronicle would gladly publish would do a great
deal to counteract what the Examiner is doing. If you would write such a letter, I will see the Editor of the Chronicle and
arrange to have it published when it would do the most good. The Examiner is trying to make out that this proposed recession
is the work of officials desirous of getting political jobs, when nothing could be further from the truth. I trust that you
will consider this matter favorably, as I think a letter from you would have a most powerful, effect in counteracting the
false sentiment which the Examiner is trying to stir up. I enclose a list of the members of the coming State Legis- 03482