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39 Martinez, Apr. 11, 1895 My dear Mr Johnson Thanks for your good stout hammering article on the vanishing forests.
A noisy dashing clashing wave of reform from New York reached this side of the continent but after a little inefectual smashing
it has subsided leaving but little mark. Our new governor Budd threatened to cut off the greater part of the Yosemite appropriations,
the Commissioners appealed to the Sierra Club for help. We made them promise that they would employ a skilled landscape gardener
before we would assist them, but this like the feeble