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PURPOSES: To preserve from destructive invasion oar National Parks Nature's Wonderlands. To enlist the support and co-operation
of all organisations and individuals interested in such preservation and to publish and circulate information to accomplish
these objects. SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATIONAL PARKS BANCROFT LIBRARY Directors of California Branch Ha.
JOHN MUIR, President, Martinez Da. WM. F. BADS, Vice-President, Berkeley MB. CHAS. P. DOUGLASS, San Diego MB. GEO. EDWARDS,
Berkeley ME. W. S. GOULD, Oakland MRS. JAB. B. HUME, Berkeley MB. CHAS. KEELEE, Berkeley PBOF. J. N. LECONTE, Berkeley
Ma. G. W. MABSTON, San Diego Mas. KATHARINE MII.LBB, Berkeley PROF. W. C. MORGAN, Berkeley MB. WILLOUGHBT RODMAN, LOS Angeles
MB. E. T. PABSONS, Secretary, 402 Mills Building, S. F. Mas. R. V. COLBY, Treasurer, 402 Mills Building, S. F. CALIFORNIA
BRANCH 402 MILLS BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO Advisory Council MB. ALLEN CHAMBERLAIN, Boston MB. EDWIN CHAMBEELAJN, Ban Antonio,
Tex. MB. CHAS. M. FABBEB, Seattle ME. R. L. QURAN, Portland ME. HENBY E. GEE GOBY. New York ME. ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON,
New York MR. F. B. JOHNSTONE, Chicago PROF. W. D. LYMAN, Walla Walla MISS HARRIET MONROE, Chicago MB. J. HOBAOB MCFARLAND
Harrisburg, Pa. ME. H. L. PITTOCK, Portland MB. ALDEN SAMPSON, New York ME. C. H. SHOLES, Portland MB. EDMUND A. WHITMAN,
Boston RE HETCH HETCHY. San Francisco, July 15, 1913. Me Robert Underwood Johnson, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: The
Yosemite National Park is not only the greatest and most wonderful national playground in California, hut in some of its features
it is without a rival in the whole world - its Silver Fir and Sequoia forests - its twin songful rivers and its twin Yosemites.
It belongs to the American people and in universal interest ranks with the Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
The head waters of the two rivers embraced within its boundaries are the Merced and the Tuolumne. The Yosemite Valley is in
the Merced Basin; the Hetch Hetchy Valley, the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, and the Tuolumne Meadows are in the Tuolumne
Basin. Excepting only the Yosemite Valley, the Tuolumne Basin in its general features is the more wonderful and larger half
of the Park. The Hetch Hetchy Valley is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite, not only in its sublime cliffs
and waterfalls and its peaceful river, but in the gardens, groves, meadows and camp grounds on its flowery park-like floor.
At a recent session of Congress a most determined attack was made by the City of San Francisco to get the right to use the
Hetch Hetchy Valley as a reservoir site, thus depriving ninety millions of people of one of their most priceless possessions
for the sake of saving San Francisco dollars.As soon as this scheme became manifest, public spirited citizens all over the
country entered their protests, and before the session was over, the Park invaders saw that they were defeated, and permitted
the bill to die without bringing it.to a vote, so as to be able to try again. Ever ready to take advantage of beclouding
political changes, a bill having the same destructive purpose has been introduced at this session of Congress, and its supporters
are speciously urging that it should be rushed through as an emergency measure when in reality nothing like an emergency exists.San
Francisco may be in immediate need of an increased supply of water but her own engineers admit that the present supply can
be more than doubled by adding to nearby sources and this plan in any case will have to be followed, for years will be required
to bring water to the city from any of the Sierra sources.