59 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- 
THE 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. 
