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2 said that he would write Dr Jordan, and see Mr Pinchot about naming the new Forest Reserve including Lassen Butte, for
General. The San Francisco Call of Apr. 12 had a very fine editorial advocating that there be a National Park named for General
Bidwell. Your? friends sent me clippings from this Call, and when I showed Dr Benjamin the article in insisted that the Park
and statue should both be secured. Mr Garver 3 is the gentleman who spoke so eloquently for General at the Washington
California Association and set the thought in motion at the Society, that General's claims were equal if not superior to any
other. He claimed far superior. Mr Garver urged me to ask you to write Pres. Roosevelt just such a letter as you wrote Dr
Benjamin, about General, asking him to name a Park for General and that the President's