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of Lake Eleanor at the head-waters of the Tuolumne River, and 

 described as being 10,510 feet in height; therefore be it 



Resolved by the Grand Parlor of the N, D. G. W., assembled 

 this fifteenth day of June, 1905, in San Jose, California, That the 

 aforementioned mountain be named Mt. Jumpero Serra ; and be 

 it further 



Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the Gov- 

 ernor of the State of California, the President of the United 

 States, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, the Geographical Society of the Pacific, the 

 Geographical Society of California, the Sierra Club, the California 

 Club, the press, and to any other persons and societies that the 

 Grand President may direct; and that the Government, the press, 

 and the public are hereby requested to accept the name hereby 

 given and to assist in making its use accepted and general to the 

 end that the pioneer of pioneers may be duly honored in the land 

 for which he worked and in which he died. 



Lilly O. Reichling Dyer. 



San Francisco^ Oct. 27, 1905. 

 Mrs. Lilly O. Reichling-Dyer, 2708 Hyde St., San Francisco. 



Dear Madam: Replying to your favor of July 15th, inclosing 

 certain resolutions adopted by the Grand Parlor of the Native 

 Daughters of the Golden West, I will state that the matter con- 

 tained in those resolutions was referred by the Board of Directors 

 of the Sierra Club to Professor George Davidson as a committee 

 of one to report upon the matter. 



I herewith inclose the report of Professor Davidson, which is 

 sent you by way of suggestion, and I wish to assure you that the 

 Sierra Club will be only too glad to co-operate with you in any 

 matter which pertains to the preservation of the scenery and 

 other natural features of our Pacific Coast. 



Very respectfully yours, William E. Colby, 



Secretary of Sierra Club. 



2.22.1 Washington Street, 



San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 5, 1905. 

 To THE Board of Directors Sierra Club, San Francisco. 



Gentlemen: On the 23rd September, at a meeting of the 

 Directors of the Sierra Club, the undersigned was appointed a 

 committee to frame an answer to an undated circular from the 

 Grand Parlor of N. D. G. W., stating that on the isth of June, 

 1905, an unnamed mountain in the Sierra Nevada, "located in the 

 "watershed of Lake Eleanor at the head-waters of the Tuolumne 

 "River, and described as being 10,510" feet elevation, was given 

 the name of Jumpero Serra to commemorate the life services of 



