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3 For the others who are crying for soldiers they are simply expectations of profit. I enclose a condensation of the Yosemite
commission s latest report. I have written for copies of the full report, but they have not yet come. You will see that the
Commissioners advice, to have a company of soldiers at Wawona, is exactly in accordance with what I wrote to you about the
Wawona people s hopes. That advice could be grafted on Mr. Aeusham? ,and through him on Mr. Noble, apparently, but it cannot
be grafted on my mind. Nor can it be made acceptable to the California public, which is already beginning to suspect the Park
proposition as a sham, got up to enable the present Yosemite monopoly to gather in more money. That better than the military
scheme is offered by me? This better: as is well understood by everybody of intelligence who knows the mountains. The reservation
should be laid off in districts. Each district should have a patrol of one or two men, picked for their thorough knowledge
of the mountains and usage to mountaineer s life. These men should be under orders of a chief who would be constantly active
in supervision. On account of the size and the natural conformation of the land, the least number of districts would be eight.
Twelve would be better, but I am reckoning on the least outlay of money. The business of the patrol would be, first, to warn
off trespassers and watch for fires. With such a watch the inroads of 06359