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Sierra Club Bulletin 



Constituents : 



Sodium (Na) ... 

 Potassium (K) . 

 Calcium (Ca) . . . 

 Magnesium (Mg) 



Iron (Fe) 



Aluminum (Al) . 

 Sulphate (SO4) . 

 Chloride (CI) .. 

 Carbonate (CO3) 

 Silica (Si02) .... 



By weight 



Reacting 

 values 



229 



5.3 

 196 

 20 



9.96 

 .14 

 9.81 

 1.64 



I 6.2 



.22 



24 

 66 

 564 

 58 



.49 

 1.87 

 18.80 

 1.93 



Carbon dioxide (CO2) 



1,168.5 



Present Present 



EXTENSION OF THE PARK BOUNDARIES 



Under the act approved February 7, 1905, entitled "An act to exclude 

 from the Yosemite National Park, Cal., certain lands therein described 

 and to attach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest Reserve," 

 542.88 square miles were excluded, certain parts of which lie on the 

 eastern boundary of the present park, and which contain many scenic 

 views such as the Devils Post Pile, lakes, high mountains, glaciers, can- 

 ons, which are in the judgment of many not equaled by any of the views 

 that are within the present park boundaries. Such beautiful lakes as 

 Thousand Island Lakes, Garnet Lake, and the Minaret, with the glaciers 

 leading into it, and the floating glaciers in the lakes are remarkable. 

 These lakes lie at the foot of Mount Ritter and Moimt Banner, which 

 are of great beauty, and also Mount Ritter is of higher altitude than any 

 of the mountains within the boundaries of the present park and gives a 

 very commanding and impressive view. This section compares very fa- 

 vorably with the Canadian Rockies, and would make a beautiful trip of 

 scenic value in connection with the people visiting the Tuolumne Mead- 

 ows and the Lambert Soda Springs by automobiles traveling over the 

 Tioga Road. 



I therefore would recommend to the Government that the necessary 

 steps be taken to have put back into the park boundaries all the land 

 excluded by this act lying on the eastern boundary of the park, and also 

 taking in township 1 north, range 25 east, which will include the won- 

 derful set of Saddlebag Lakes an4 also the Leevining Canon, which is 

 traversed by the Tioga Road after leaving the park boundaries in its 

 route to Mono Lake, and which is of so much value to the park at the 

 present time that people travel from Yosemite Valley, a distance of 80 

 miles through the park land and out of its boundary on the east side, for 

 the one purpose of seeing Leevining Creek Canon, which is in the opin- 

 ion of many people not equaled by the Grand Canon for its impressive- 

 ness as to depth, ruggedness, and other scenic beauties. Its head is con- 

 tinuously capped with snow, large waterfalls pouring down the canon. 



