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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



In addition to longer articles suitable for the body of the magazine, the 

 editor would be glad to receive brief memoranda of all noteworthy trips or 

 explorations, together with brief comment and suggestion on any topics of 

 general interest to the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes 

 concerning the animals, birds, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of the 

 mountains, will be acceptable. 



The office of the Sierra Club is Room 302 Mills Building, San Francisco, 

 where all Club members are welcome, and where all the maps, photographs, 

 and other records of the Club are kept. 



The Club would like to secure additional copies of those numbers of 

 the Sierra Club Bulletin which are noted on the back of the cover of this 

 number as being out of print, and we hope any member having extra 

 copies will send them to the Secretary. 



The following is the decision of the Secretary of the Interior 

 upon the appHcation of the city of San Francisco for reservoir 

 sites in the Hetch Hetchy Valley and at Lake Eleanor, Yosemite 

 National Park: — 



The Commissioner of the General Land Office. 



Sir: October 15, 1901, James D. Phelan, then Mayor of the 

 city of San Francisco, filed application for reservoir rights of 

 way within the Yosemite National Park upon what are known as 

 the Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy Valley reservoir sites. This 

 application was made under the act of February 15, 1901, and 

 was in fact the application of the city made in the name of 

 James D. Phelan to avoid the difficulties which beset a city if 

 it must announce its business intentions to the public before 

 securing options and rights necessary for its project. This is not 

 disputed, and the fact is corroborated by his assigning to the city 

 and county of San Francisco, on February 20, 1903, all his rights 

 under the above application. 



This application was considered by the Secretary of the Interior 

 and, on December 22, 1903, rejected, on the ground that he did 

 not have the legal power to allow such a right of way within 

 the Yosemite National Park. From that time to this the city has, 

 with practical continuity, pressed its request for a permit to use 

 these reservoir sites. The city failed, however, to take steps to 

 reopen this case in the form prescribed by the Rules of Practice 

 of this Department, and for that reason, technically had no 

 application on file after December 22, 1903. On the other hand, 



Decision of the Secretary of the Interior. 



Application for Lake Eleanor and 

 Hetch Hetchy Valley Reservoir 

 Sites. Act of February 15, 1901. 



