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T. R. 2 which he did with reluctance, as he felt he might be thought an interested party. This statement, which raised some
important practical questions, I sent to Secretary Garfield. Of course you know that the Sierra Club, of which our high-minded
and disinterested friend John Muir is President, is vigorously opposed to the project as unnecessary and otherwise objectionable.
Its secretary, William E. Colby, writes me: The whole scheme is a political job to do up a local water company. (I think he
refers not to the Spring Valley but to the Bay Cities Company) . Success to your May conference I see signs of great public
interest in it. In this matter of our national-resources we are all in the same boat and nobody must be permitted to scuttle
it As ever, Respectfully and sincerel yours, illegible To the President The White House, Washington, D. C.