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2 the Yosemite. It looks ten times worse now than when you saw it seven years ago. Most of the level meadow floor of the
valley is fenced with barbed unbarbed wire. about 300 head of horses are turned loose every night to feed trample the flora
out of existence. I told the hotel horsemen that they were doing all they could to prevent lovers of wild haunts from visiting
the valley that soon all tourist travel would cease. This year only 1200 regular tourists visited the valley while 2000 campers
came in remained a week or two. But a change in the management is now on. One of the eight commissioners, Mr Fields told
me that from a conversation he had with me 3 years ago he had been looking for a landscape artist to lay out the floor of
the valley at last had found him. A Mr Radford who told me that he had been associated with Olmsted 30 years. He has just
completed a survey of the Yosemite is now laying out a plan of roads paths clearing etc. Do you know him. Please inquire of
Olmsted let me know how much I may rely on him. Bancroft Library