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you again. I am very glad to say we have started our subscrip- 

 tion to finish the Mount \Vhitney Trail, and I am glad to say 

 we are getting along very well, but I am afraid we shall need 

 outside help. Independence has promised me $100, and Keeler 

 will help a little, and I think Mr. B. P. Oliver, of 114 Mont- 

 gomery St., S. F., will help, and his friends. I shall be very 

 glad of your help in speaking to any of your friends interested 

 in the mountains. Perhaps you may induce some of the Sierra 

 Club to help us. Most of the people are poor, and many have 

 offered to work instead of giving money, but we need some 

 money for powder, food, and pack-animals. Last year we bor- 

 rowed all the tools and cooking outfit. I hope you will try 

 and help us, if it is only a few dollars. 



We hope to have the trail completed by the 4th of July, but 

 it depends on the money and the snow, but the snow is very 

 light and soft. We have had some very warm weather lately, 

 and the water from the mountains is coming very fast — much 

 earlier than last year. I am in charge of finishing of the trail, 

 and I am very anxious to get at it. Trusting you will do all 

 you can for us, and some day we may be able to repay you, 

 Yours truly, G. F. Marsh. 



[If any member of the Club desires to subscribe to this fund 

 for completing the trail from Lone Pine to the summit of Mt. 

 Whitney, such subscription forwarded to the Secretary of the 

 Club will be sent to those in charge of the work. — Editor.] 



Stanford University, Cal., April 8, 1904. 

 Mr. William E. Colby, Secretary of the Sierra Club. 



Dear Mr. Colby — I take the liberty of calling your notice to 

 a subject which seems to me to merit emphatic attention from 

 the Sierra Club, and one which might well receive mention 

 before the members at the Saturday meeting. This is the nomen- 

 clature of features in the California mountains. 



In the first place, and specifically: the Sierra Club should 

 this summer permanently fix the original Indian names, which 

 are so exquisitely appropriate, on the three most striking wonders 

 of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, — the shower, Tuccoolala; the cata- 

 ract, Wapama; and the rock, Kolana. (John Muir, California 

 Series 7, Picturesque California.) These have been dubbed in a 

 commonplace fashion by mappers and tourists, — the first " Ribbon 

 Fall" or "The Hetch-Hetchy Bridal Veil," and the second 

 " Hetch-Hetchy Fall," — or have been left unnamed, while their 

 true, primitive christenings have remained quite in oblivion. 

 " Falls Creek " likewise is an applicant for emendation, and 

 " Mt. Smith," on the crest of the canon-wall just south of the 



