Martinez Apr. 30, 1899 My dear Prof. Sargent You are no doubt right about the little Tahoe reservation - a scheme full
of special personalities pushed through by a lot of lawyers etc but the more we get the better anyhow it is a natural park
because of its beauty accessibility is visited more than any other park of the Sierra except Yosemite. All I know of the
Rainier Olympic reservations has come through the newspapers The Olympic will surely be attacked again again for its timber
but the interests of Seattle Tacoma will probably save Rainier. I expect to find out something about them soon as I am going
North from Seattle to Cooks Inlet Kodiak for a couple of months with a scientific party Pray for me. We are to leave about