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2/ this county, Mariposa county, and some over the range. He was for a short time a Yosemite Comm sr but was crowded out
by Waterman, Pixley and that set. He is at bitter war with the Fresno Expositor, and I guess there s no love lost between
him and Irish. I will write to him, and see what I can do with him. He has been a personal friend of Coffman, the Yosemite
stable-keeper, and, I suspect, on that account may be a little hard to manage. Still, his political status is such that he
cannot afford altogether to pass over what I shall say. Our Assemblyman, a Mr. G. W. Mordecai is, I believe, superior to the
average Assemblyman, and, while I have not his personal acquaintance, I shall try to do something with him. The thin I m afraid
of is the fixing 3/ of the committees, that, however, is merely a presentiment, incited by a name or two, of the owners
of which I have little knowledge. Don t be worried about my having any difficulty in getting along with Robinson if we should
meet. I have no shadow of ill-will in that direction, although sometimes his mulishness is provoking. I would be very glad
if he would handle the business to success. It would please me mightily to have done with the whole thing if it were done
when tis done. As to a scheme of management, I think the Paddock bill would cover it in a general way. That bill, I believe,
authorizes the Secretary to use soldiers as reservation guards, and perhaps with reason, for some of the new forest reserves
can perhaps for a time be controlled well enough by such force altho only as a stepping stone to something better. But in
the Yosemite