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in circle: 75 See last p. Credit to Lahura? for originating the Yosemite scheme and pushing it through 1901 Martinez, Dec.
24, 1901 My dear Johnson. I've been brooding over that Colorado Canyon article It is a grand subject but my ignorance
is distressing I spent a day or two on its rim at the deepest portion where the views were probably the most telling marvellous
of all; I spent a day going down to the bottom of it Going by way of Flagstaff by stage. spending a day on the interesting
San Francisco mountains. Now the travel is all by rail from Williams to within 8 or 10 miles of the canon which is reached
by stage some 16 or 18 miles