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ing of the remarkable and unique Devil's Postpile from destruc- 

 tion. When an application was filed with the Bureau of For- 

 estry for a permit to blast it into the river to form a dam for 

 power purposes, the directors took the matter up at once, and 

 by personal letters to President Taft succeeded in having both 

 the Postpile and the Rainbow Fall made into a national monu- 

 ment. 



The Sierra Club conceived the idea of the John Muir Trail, 

 for the starting of which the legislature appropriated $10,000 

 two years ago. We need an additional appropriation to finish 

 it and money to extend it northward to Lake Tahoe, and all 

 members of the club should urge the members of the state legis- 

 lature to appropriate the $20,000 required for its completion. 

 The greatest work which lies before us this winter is the pas- 

 sage through Congress of a bill which shall create a Greater Se- 

 quoia Park, including the headwaters of the Kern, Kaweah, 

 and Kings rivers, and a small portion of those of the San 

 Joaquin. 



The club is now in a flourishing condition. It has over 1800 

 members, and its income from dues and advertising is some 

 $5000 per annum. Its publications fill nine volumes, and these 

 contain practically all the results of exploration in the high Si- 

 erra during the past twenty-five years, as well as work in other 

 mountain regions. Let every one then put his shoulder to the 

 wheel, so that, as Mr. Muir says in his letter, "We will be able 

 to do something for wildness and make the mountains glad." 



