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To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning
them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural
features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. BOARD OP DIRECTORS-1904-1905 Mr. JOHN MUIR, President Martinez Prof. A. G. MCADIE,
Vice-President Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. J. N. LE CONTE, Treasurer Berkeley Prof. W. R. DUDLEY, Cor. Sec'y Stanford University
Mr. WILLIAM E. COLBY, Secretary Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. GEORGE DAVIDSON Berkeley Mr. J. S. HUTCHINSON, Jr. Claus Spreckels
Bldg., S. F. Mr. WARREN OLNEY 101 Sansome St., S. F. Mr. E. T. PARSONS University Club, S. F. (Vice Mr. ELLIOTT MCALLISTER,
resigned) COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS: Pres. DAVID STARR JORDAN, Chairman Stanford Univ. Mr. ELLIOTT MCALLISTER, Editor
Crocker Bldg., S. F. Prof. WM. F. BADE Berkeley Prof. WM. R. DUDLEY Stanford University Mr. ALEX. G. EELLS Crocker Bldg.,
S. F. Mr. E. B. GOULD Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S. F. Mr. J. S. HUTCHINSON, Jr. Clans Spreckels Bldg., S. F. Mr. E. T.
PARSONS University Club, S. F. Prof. H. W. ROLPE Stanford University Mr. WILLOUGHBY RODMAN Bryson Block, Los Angeles San
Francisco, Cal., Jan. 13, 1905 Mr. John Muir, President Sierra Club, Martinez, Cal. My Dear Mr. Muir: Yours of the
10th together with Mr. Johnson's letter reached me on my return from Sacramento day before yesterday. I made a second trip
in order to see that the bill for the Recession of Yosemite was properly introduced in both houses. You probably saw by the
papers that this has been done. The bill was referred to Senate and Assembly committees on forests and public lands. I arranged
for a joint meeting of these committees to consider the bill and it will be very important to have every one we can persuade
to be in Sacramento and attend that joint meeting for a great deal will depend upon the illegible of these committees. As
near as I was able to ascertain at that time, the matter will come before the joint committee next Wednesday. My plan in having
a joint committee meeting was in order to avoid the necessity of making two trips and our delegation which goes up to Sacramento
will only have to make one trip. I will give you a couple of days notice and I sincerely trust that nothing will interfere
with your being there with us for you are the most important person to help us in this matter and it is simply 03509