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5 is or not will not matter much since it his in rugged rocky security as one of natures own reservations. As to the lower
boundary it should I think be extended so far as to include the Big Tree groves below the valley thus bringing under government
protection a section of the forest containing specimens of all the principal trees of the Sierra, which if left unprotected
will vanish like snow in summer. Some private claims will have to be brought but the cost will not be great. Yours truly
John Muir Glad to hear of your brothers success. Am at work on the Canon. newspaper clipping wheat, which is not an irrigated
crop. The Vandever bill to extend the Yosemite grant is not sufficiently comprehensive. It leaves out the cascades, the
sources of most of the streams which make the falls of the valley, and does not connect the valley and Big Tree grants. If
it pass is should be amended in these particulars. Alta May A Matter of Principle.