PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. 



In August, 1900, while making examinations of the forests in California, 

 there was a meeting of a club of merchants, who were to discuss the subject, 

 "Our Vanishing Forests." Mr. J. S. Bunnell, auditor of Wells, Fargo & Co. 

 express company, had an exhaustive paper, most ably prepared, and, I hav- 

 ing been invited to be present at the meeting, was called upon for some re- 



TIIE THREE BROTHERS, YOSEMITE VALLEY. 



marks. I emphasized the rights of the constituted authorities representing 

 the people to prohibit the destruction of the forests where such act would 

 make barren forever a tract of land, as was being done throughout that 

 State. 



