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or of the river, is almost ice-cold, and the former a gentle tonic. 

 The scenery is nowhere more glorious." 



Mr. John Muir, in 'My First Summer in the Sierra," writes 

 that the Tuolumne Meadows region "is the most spacious and 

 delightful high pleasure ground I have yet seen." 



It is the consensus of opinion that there is no single place in 

 the High Sierra better fitted as a site for a Sierra Club Lodge. 

 It is only twenty miles by the new Mirror-Tenaya Lake Trail 

 from Yosemite Valley and from no other center can so many 

 interesting trips be made. Mts. Lyell, Ritter, Dana, Conness 

 and many other high peaks, innumerable charming lakes for 

 which the High Sierra is famous, as well as the wonderful falls 

 and cascades and water-wheels and sculptured cliffs and walls 

 of the Grand Canon of the Tuolumne are all within compara- 

 tively easy reach. 



The Tioga Mining Road will undoubtedly be acquired by the 

 Government and repaired in the near future. This road crosses 

 one corner of the property in question and connects with the new 

 State highway, recently built up from the Mono Lake region. 

 When completed this will become one of the most famous scenic 

 trips in the world. It should be open to automobiles and with a 

 short branch road one would be able to run to the foot of Mt. 

 Lyell and but a short distance from its glacier. 



Learning that this property was on the market, with every 

 likelihood of being sold and perhaps enclosed, so that the pubhc 

 would be excluded, some of the directors of the Club secured an 

 option on it and presented to the members a plan of purchasing 

 it by private subscription. The generous response to this pro- 

 posal has made it possible to effect the purchase and the property 

 will be acquired in the name of the Club, which will hold it in 

 trust for the subscribers and administer it for the benefit of the 

 Club members w^ith the public welfare in view. This plan has 

 met with the unqualified approval of Lieutenant-Colonel Benson, 

 former superintendent, and Major W. W. Forsyth, acting super- 

 intendent of the Yosemite National Park. It will insure a wise 

 administration of the property and prevent its being commer- 

 cialized by private owners. A large, substantial cabin already 

 exists on the property and this can temporarily be used as a 

 headquarters. We hope that in time the Club can place some 

 one in charge of the property during the summer months and 

 that some sort of lodging can be provided and staple provisions 

 placed on sale, so that Club members and others can leave 

 Yosemite Valley with the knowledge that there will be a place in 

 the !\Ieadows where they can secure essentials. It is to be hoped 

 that the Club will take over the property in time and build a 



