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3 Mr Fields is the one Commissioner who is devoutly trying to mend Yosemite matters. He it was who brought in Mr. Radford
who told me that since he had done so he wanted me to stand in with him. I have little hope for Yosemite. As long as the management
is in the hands of eight politicians appointed by the every changing governor of California there is but little hope. I never
saw the Yosemite so frowsy, scrawny, downtrodden as last August the horsemen began to enquire Has the Yosemite begun to play
out. This year 2000 campers have entered the valley and only 1200 regular tourists, in the Yosemite National park I have found
more than a hundred for every one five years ago. I went down the Munce? to Tuolumne Canon thence to Crockers the Big Tuolumne
Canon diacritic . Thence to the Yosemite illegible Ever yours John Muir