Title:
Letter from J. R. Branson to John Muir, 1909 May 25.
Creator:
J. R. Branson
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1909 May 25
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0481-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Aurora, Nebr.
Rights:
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Transcription:
Aurora. Nebraska. May 25, 1909. Dear.Sir:- Your valued favor of 19 inst. is received, giving me the desired information
regarding Hetch-Hetchy Valley, the Tuolumne Meadows, etc. Please accept my thanks for the kindness. I hope California, whose
interest financially is more in jeop-ardy from San Francisco's Bill in Congress attempting to got Hetch-Hetchy if Valley and
all the rest she is after to destroy for her Water Supply, than is the interest of any other ten States, will rise up en masse
with her petitions now to Congress and besiege Washington with letters pray-V? ing the defeat of the Bill, for if San Francisco
were granted her appli-cation every town and City in California would be hurt for all time except San Prancisco. But I do
not believe that Congress could be induced to pass the Bill over the head of the great Common wealth of California alone if
the whole state, outside of San Francisco, would rise up en masse asolid with their petitions and thousands of individual
letters to Congress appealing and protesting against the abominable Bill of scheme. Push the campaign against it at your
end of the line, and we are going to try to do our part this side of the Rockies to save Hetoh-Hetchy and the whole Park intact
as a virgin, and furthermore, try to have such legislation passed as will forestall and effectually prevent any future attempts
at vandalism on any of our National Parks. I am glad to have met you even in correspondence, and wish you the best. Very
truly Yrours. illegible Mr. John Muir. Author. Scientist, Explorer, Martinez California. illegible