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J.M.2. R. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R. U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL ASSISTANT EDITOR. against recession until
the bill is introduced. I have had too much experience to make a mistake about this. A campaign never begins until a bill
is introduced. Glory halleluiah The Secretary of the Interior is carrying out his great measures of forest preservation,
and has already proclaimed the Sierra reservation from the Yosemite National Park south to the end of the Sierra, also the
two big reservations of the mountains from Los Angeles to San Bernardino, also Mt. Rainier and a million acres about it.,
and also, on my suggestion, the country contiguous to the Grand Ca on of Colorado. I suppose the next thing to do is to have
the Sierra reserved north of the Yosemite National Park. illegible I think, now that Irish is continuing his abuse of Noble,
that you fellows ought to be able to lay him out: with the argument that Noble has done the greatest thing that could be done
by the government for the State of California. You of course know that this whole policy has grown out of your three articles
printed in The Century , which in turn grew out of our talk by the camp-fire on the upper Tuolumne. Of course I had no idea
that Noble was going to 01432