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4/ indeed see what action Congress can take, the Act granting the Valley being what it is. But perhaps some of the big lawyers
can find a device. I think, without a doubt, the ring would fight the matter in the courts before agreeing to a recession.
I m not going to give myself much more anxiety about the question. The mere fact of getting such a report from Mr. Noble is
victory enough to satisfy a reasonable desire. The burden of further duty now rests with the law-makers. I have worried over
the business far too much for my own good. I would have hated to have our attempt dribble along and peter out ignornimiously
, as other efforts in the same line have done. Now, although the fight has not reached a finish, it has reached a stage of
success that few people in California ever thought could be attained. People here have become such abject slaves of Southern
Pacific influence that they regard anyone who bucks against it as something like a hopeless idiot. The Yosemite question,
if final success turns our way, will assume a far wider importance than int illegible ally belongs to it. It will teach Californians
the strange doctrine that the Stanford is not the sole God, nor the Southern Pacific influence