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6/ the introduction of a bill to give 75,000 to Mariposa to build the free road. I have been occupied almost wholly in our
fight to make a new county, and, luckily, I have been rather prominent in the contest, which promises to be successful, and
which is favored by both Goucher and Mordecai. That may help when I bring my guns to bear on them in re? Yosemite. Trust me
to do all I can in my ignorance of what lines are being followed by others. As to public feeling, I don t doubt that it is
generally in favor of recession, but probably the efforts of the sheep-men to stir up feeling against the big reservation
south of the Yosemite park have had some effect. Just how much I am not prepared to say. I mean feeling in opposition to the
Yosemite park, and a kind of contra illegible ness that might vent itself by objecting to recession of the Valley, just out
of pure cussedness. I don t apprehend 7/ much real opposition from that source, for even the objectors have come to the
conclusion that the Park has come to stay, and they cannot help seeing the benefits of combining the grant and the Park. I
would like to know who, if anybody, in the Legislature has the matter in charge. If that special report of Mr. Noble s can
be had, send it to me as soon as possible. Yours Very Truly Geo. G. Mackenzie. The internal evidence of that Expositor
article convinces me that Irish wrote it. It may be possible for me to get proof of that after a time. The hand of Irish is
discernible all through it, and not the hand of Baker, the Expositor writer.