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3 in all the Park excepting Yosemite. It is accessible all the year, is not more mosquitoeful than Yosemite. The conversion
of Hetch Hetchy into a reservoir will simply mean a lake instead of a meadow. But Hetch Hetchy is not a meadow: it is a Yosemite
Valley .... in margin: Insert here the part marked on back of p.2. Engineer, Mr Marsden Manson also calls the Valley a lowlying
meadow a common minor feature in no sense a natural curiosity or wonder to submerge it would greatly enhance the beauty of
the Park. I pray therefore that the people of California be granted time to be heard before this reservoir question is decided,
for I believe that as soon as light is cast upon it, nine tenths or more of even the citizens of San Francisco would be opposed
to it. And what the public opinion of the world would be may be guessed by the case of the Niagara Falls. Faithfully devotedly
Yours JM. O for a tranquil camp hour with you like those beneath the Sequoias in memorable 1903. 04151