Reports of Committees 217 



John Muir Trail $ 249.36 



Southern California Section 250.00 



Out of Doors magazine 50.00 



Exhibit at P. P. I. E 45.50 



Furniture and equipment 102.00 



Dues to other clubs 13.00 



Taxes 5.56 



Clerical assistance 15-45 



Sundry small expenses 25.68 



Total expenditures $5,040.61 



Excess of receipts over expenditures $ 80.74 



Cash on hand — May i, 191 5 i,955.8i 



Cash on hand— May 6, 1916 $2,036.55 



Made up as follows : 



In office $ 25.00 



First National Bank 1,461.53 



Savings Union Bank & Trust Co 343-19 



Security Savings Bank 206.83 



Total $2,036.55 



Sierra Club Permanent Fund 



Balance — May i, 1915 $1,514.90 



Interest 60.02 



Balance — May 6, 1916, in Security Savings Bank $1,574.92 



Whymper Fund 



Balance — May i, 191 5 $ 239.48 



Interest 9.66 



Balance — May 6, 1916, in Savings Union Bank & Trust Co $ 249.14 



Report of 1916 Outing 

 The standard of excellence of recent annual outings has been so high 

 that each year the Outing Committee has been apprehensive that it would 

 not be able to live up to its past record. However, the opinion was 

 unanimously expressed, at the close of the 1916 outing into the Kern and 

 Kings River regions, that the trip was the finest that the club had ever 

 undertaken. 



The party left the train at Springville and camped the first night near 

 Smith & Wilson's summer resort in a beautiful pine forest. The next 



