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8 upper Merced waters there are no mines or settlements of any sort though some few land claims have been established. These
would be easily extinguished by purchase. All the basins drained in Yosemite are really a part of the valley as their streams
are a part of the Merced. Cut off from its branches Yosemite is only a stump. However gnarly picturesque no tree that is beheaded
looks well. But like ants creeping in the furrows of the bark few of all the visitors to the valley see more than the stump,
but little of that. To preserve the valley leave all its related rocks waters forests to fire sheep lumberman is like keeping
the grand hall of entrance of a palace for royalty, while all the other apartments from cellar to dome is given up to the
common or uncommon uses of industry butcher shops, vegetable stalls, liquor saloons,