Title:
Letter from Charles M. Skinner to John Muir, 1902 Nov 14.
Creator:
Charles M. Skinner
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1902 Nov 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0773-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Brooklyn, [N. Y.]
Rights:
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Transcription:
THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Brooklyn, Nov. 14, 1902. Mr. John Muir: Dear Sir: You have done a service in the cause of literature,
science and the American people in your description of the Colorado ca on in the Century. Won't you add to it by dropping
a line to the President, urging on him the necessity for preserving that region as a national park? It would be easy to do
that now, but after Arizona has been divided among half a million miners, lumbermen, ranchmen, farmers and speculators, difficult
or impossible. The whole world elsewhere has not its equal, and the extension of the timber reserve involved in such a scheme
of parking would also facilitate the irrigation schemes suggested by Mr. Roosevelt. I am sure he would heed your words where
he would not read other people's. Yours Truly, Charles M. Skinnner 03095