. Sierra Club bulletin . sitionsrelative to the other great features—the Merced andTuolumne canons, and the High Sierra peaks andglaciers, etc., at the head of the rivers. The main part ofthe Tuolumne Valley is a beautiful spacious flowery lawnfour or five miles long, surrounded by magnificent snowymountains. It is about 8,500 feet above the sea, andforms the grand central High Sierra campground fromwhich excursions are made to the noble mountains,domes, glaciers, etc.; across the range to the Mono Lakeand volcanoes; and down the Tuolumne Canon toHetch-Hetchy. But should Hetch-Hetchy be submer
. Sierra Club bulletin . sitionsrelative to the other great features—the Merced andTuolumne canons, and the High Sierra peaks andglaciers, etc., at the head of the rivers. The main part ofthe Tuolumne Valley is a beautiful spacious flowery lawnfour or five miles long, surrounded by magnificent snowymountains. It is about 8,500 feet above the sea, andforms the grand central High Sierra campground fromwhich excursions are made to the noble mountains,domes, glaciers, etc.; across the range to the Mono Lakeand volcanoes; and down the Tuolumne Canon toHetch-Hetchy. But should Hetch-Hetchy be submerged,as proposed, not only would it be made utterly inacces-sible, but the sublime canon way to the heart of the HighSierra would be hopelessly blocked. None, as far asI have learned, of all the thousands who have seen thepark is in favor of this destructive water scheme. My last visit to the valley was made in the autumnof last year, with William Keith, the artist. The leaf- SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, VOL. VI. PLATE SUNRISE IN HETCH-HETCHY photograph by E. T. Parsons, 1907. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley. 219 colors were then ripe, and the great god-like rocks inrepose seemed to glow with life. The artist, under theirspell, wandered day after day along the beautiful riverand through the groves and gardens, studying the won-derful scenery; and, after making about forty sketches,declared with enthusiasm that in picturesque beauty andcharm Hetch-Hetchy surpassed even Yosemite. That any one would try to destroy such a place seemedimpossible, but sad experience shows that there arepeople good enough and bad enough for anything. Theproponents of the dam scheme bring forward a lot ofbad arguments to prove that the only righteous thingfor Hetch-Hetchy is its destruction. These argumentsare curiously like those of the devil devised for thedestruction of the first garden — so much of the verybest Eden fruit going to waste, so much of the bestTuolumne water. Very few of their
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