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Sierra Club Bulletin 



Cash on hand distributed as follows : 



In First National Bank $ 579.75 



In Security Savings Bank 263.19 



In Savings Union Bank and Trust Co 698.51 



In War Savings Stamps 848.00 



Cash in Secretary's drawer 25.00 



$2,414.45 



Permanent Fund: 



Balance in fund January i, 1918 $2,107.42 



New life memberships 150.00 



Interest to date 52.32 



$2,309.74 



Interest withdrawn for Parsons Lodge 250.00 



$2,05974 



Distributed as follows : 



Bond of the Third Liberty Loan $1,000.00 



Bond of the Fourth Liberty Loan 1,000.00 



Cash in Security Savings Bank 59-74 



$2,059.74 



Respectfully submitted, 



Joseph N. Le Conte, Treasurer 



Parsons Memorial Lodge 

 custodian's report for 1918 

 Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park 



I reached the Lodge July 5th by horse over the Tenaya Trail. The club 

 is much indebted to Mr. Lewis, the superintendent of the Park, for as- 

 sistance in enabling me to reach the lodge at this date, and also for 

 many other favors. The lodge and log hut had been broken open dur- 

 ing the winter, and the whole place, inside and out, was in a bad state 

 of disorder. 



Travel began on the Tioga Road July 6th, the first cars reporting the 

 only snow to be a little patch at the summit. The river was then very 

 low and there was hardly any snow on the mountain peaks. Weather 

 conditions have been ideal all summer — cold frosty nights, ice in the 

 teakettle almost any morning, warm sunny days, and the mosquitoes 

 all gone by July loth. During my stay we had five thunder and rain- 

 storms, the lodge affording dry shelter to all near-by campers. 



Our visitors numbered one thousand, from July 5th to closing day, 

 September i8th. Some of them camped for a while near us, and all 

 were interested in what I could tell them about the trails, roads, fishing 



