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to attend the exercises on the follow- 

 ing day at the opening of the Truckee- 

 Carson irrigation project, the first to 

 be completed under the Reclamation 

 Act. 



This article would be incomplete 

 without mention of Mr. J. B. Lippin- 

 cott, the distinguished and unusually 

 energetic engineer of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey in California, and his 

 assistants. Mr. Lippincott's work has 



prepared the way for government pro- 

 jects far in advance of what his office 

 would call for. He is eager for Cali- 

 fornia and the west. He possesses the 

 confidence of all the people and invites 

 their cooperation. 



The members of the Congressional 

 Committees were enabled to make a 

 most comprehensive itinerary owing 

 to the fact that the Southern Pacific 

 Company placed a special train at their 

 disposal. 



THE SIERRA CLUB 



An Interesting and Useful Organization of Mountaineers and Nature Lovers 



BY 



WILLIAM E. COLBY 



. Secretary, The Sierra Club. 



LIMB the mountains and get 

 their good tidings. Let 

 Nature's peace flow into you as sun- 

 shine flows into trees. The winds will 

 blow their own freshness into you, and 

 the storms their energy, while cares 

 will drop off like Autumn leaves." 



This is the gospel preached by John 

 Muir for these many years. It has 

 been taken up by the Sierra Club, 

 which was organized in California in 

 1892 by a number of enthusiastic 

 mountaineers and nature lovers whose 

 thoughts and ideas had become crys- 

 tallized in the successful effort to es- 

 tablish the Yosemite National Park. 

 John Muir was chosen as their leader 

 and has presided over their counsels 

 ever since. The university of Califor- 

 nia and Stanford University, through 

 their faculties and alumni, have fur- 

 nished a large part of the strength and 

 vitality of the club. The corporate 

 purposes are, "To explore, enjoy, and 

 render accessible the mountain regions 

 of the Pacific Coast ; to publish au- 

 thentic information concerning them ; 

 to enlist the support and cooperation 

 of the people and the government in 

 preserving the forests and other 

 natural features of the Sierra Xevada 



Mountains." Its members have made 

 pioneer ascents of almost inaccessible 

 peaks, have explored and mapped 

 large areas of the High Sierra, and 

 have called the attention of the public 

 to the beauty and grandeur of the 

 mountains of California. But its most 

 important work has been in aiding in 

 the establishment of the forest re- 

 serves. 



President Roosevelt, in his address 

 at Stanford University in 1903, spoke 

 of the Club's work as follows : "Cali- 

 fornia has for many years, I am happy 

 to say, taken a more sensible, a more 

 intelligent interest in forest preserva- 

 tion than any other state. It early ap- 

 pointed a Forest Commission ; later on 

 some of the functions of that commis- 

 sion were replaced by the Sierra Club, 

 a club which has done much on the 

 Pacific Coast to perpetuate the spirit 

 of the explorer and pioneer." 



Every movement which has for its 

 object the preservation of our forests 

 or our natural scenery finds the club 

 an active champion. It has been co- 

 oprrating with other organizations 

 which have allied interests and par- 

 ticularly with the various branches of 

 the government service which have 



