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Sierra Club Bulletin 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, MAY 3, I9I3, TO MAY 2, I914 



The total membership of the Club at the end of the Club year is 

 1797, making a net mcrease of 207 members during the year. The 

 total number of new members added during this period was 282, which 

 is the largest increase within the history of the Club. There were sev- 

 enty-five names dropped during the year, owing to resignations, death 

 and non-payment of dues. A large share of the credit for the unusual 

 increase of membership during the past year is due to the activities 

 of the Southern California section of the Club. They have completed 

 the Muir Lodge in Santa Anita Cafion and it has proven to be a very 

 attractive feature of the Club life in Southern Cahfornia. With a little 

 energetic work during the coming year, the membership of the Club 

 ought to reach the 2,000 mark by May, 191 5. 



The Club will have an exceptional opportunity during 191 5 to enter- 

 tain members from other mountaineering and Alpine Clubs who come 

 to visit the Exposition. We will expect all such members to make 

 their headquarters at the Club Room and join in the local walks and 

 outings. In order to accommodate the large number who will wish 

 to see something of the high Sierra, we are planning to have a central 

 camp established on the Soda Springs property at Tuolumne Meadows 

 during July, August and possibly September, 1915. By having a pack 

 train running between this camp and the Yosemite Valley, we will 

 be able to take care of a large number of visitors. From this central 

 camp a continuous series of side trips will be taken to the innumerable 

 points of interest which can be easily reached from this camp as a 

 center. 



The interest in the local walks is steadily increasing, both in the 

 vicinity of San Francisco and in Los Angeles. Great credit is due 

 Mr. James E. Rother and the Local Walks Committee in Northern 

 California, and too much praise can not be given Mr. Phil S. Berna3'-s 

 and his associates for the very excellent work that is being done in 

 Southern Cahfornia. 



Active work on the trail which will open up Grouse Meadows on 

 the Middle Fork of the Kings River so that it can be entered from 

 the West, will be prosecuted this summer. This is a trail that will 

 mean much for future travel into this region. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Wm. E. Colby, 



■ Secretary 



