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Martinez, Jan 12, 1894 My dear Mr Johnson, No doubt ere this you have been notified of your appointment on a committee
of the Sierra Club to urge the passage of the bill making the Mt Rainier portion of the Pacific Forest Reserve a National
Park. Go ahead as our representative what you do we other members of the Committee will swear to--Mt Rainier is the grandest
isolated icy old volcanic cones on this coast--The forest about its base are most interesting containing specimens of nearly
every coniferious tree of Alaska Washington Oregon, while an intermediate Zone above the forest below its glaciers is one
glorious garden of the finest alpine subalpine flowers. It is also the home of from one hundred to two hundred wild goats-nearly
related to the camois of the Alps- of many deer other interesting animals birds etc. All the live people of the Puget Sound
region turn to Rainier as a natural pleasure ground--It will be one of the very noblest most interesting of all our parks.
Fortunately few claims of any importance have been made about it.Making this park will bless everybody, hurt nobody please
the Lord. I had a letter from Mr Scott the other day asking how I was getting on with the proposed book saying it ought to
be in the hands of the printers within a few months. I am pegging away at it-trying to make the old articles bear on each
other, stick together canceling here there adding new matter. Can you send me another set of copies of my articles, to be
cut up? It would save me much rewriting. The chapters will be about as follows 1 General View of the Sierra 10012