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3/ past year fires of a particularly destructive kind have swept over the Yellowstone country. 6. While desirous of giving
all the cordial support in our power to the management of the Yosemite National Park, we are inflexibly convinced that it
would be better that the last stick of timber in that and other reservations should be destroyed than that the infintely worse
evil of military domination should be given a foothold in this State. 06357