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<br />002570 <br /> <br />he was told to do. Mulholland was portrayed as a very <br />focused engineer, the do-er to move !he water, with Iiuk <br />patience for any view other than 10 bring the water 10 the <br />largest concernration of people who could use it. The public <br />interest. in Mulholland's lexicon. is defined as the needs of the <br />greatest number, and a special interest is when a small number <br />profit from the public imeresL When asked if environmental <br />preservation was a concern when he was developing his water <br />transfer plans. he looked stunned and demanded. "lluough lhe <br />desert? There wasn '{ anything there. ~ <br /> <br /> <br />William MJJlIoIf(JM <br />dncribB his fNJjor <br />waurproja:u, <br /> <br />Mulholland was [allowed by <br />Sarah Winnemucca. who <br />became a spokesp::rson fot <br />the Paiute Indians during <br />the while expansion west., <br />working 10 coexist willi the <br />whites and to prevent her <br />people from being left with <br />no livelihood and no <br />education. Born in 1844 <br />near Hwnboh Lake in <br />Northern Nevada. she was always 10m between two societies. <br />Her maternal grandfather. Captain Truckce. believed that it was <br />imponant to live side by side with the whites. because he <br />believed the coming of the whites wa~ the fulfillment of the <br />Paiute creation story of the separation of God's children. red <br />.and white. .and that the star)' came full circle to reunion when <br />the whites moved West. Sarah's f.aJ.her was more skeptical: he <br />had a vision thai the PaiUle would suffer at the hands of <br />Captain Truckcc's white brothers .and he was therefore much <br />more cautious in his dealings with him. <br /> <br />Because Sarah spent part of her childhood among the whites <br />in California and because she spoke English and several Native <br />American languages. she became a spokesperson for the <br />Paiute. She auemplcd to convince the whites 10 follow <br />through with their promises of land. tents, and food, losing the <br />UUSt of her own people because she would lell them of these <br />promises thai later went unfulfilled. MI find it strange that our <br />Indian ways are not good any more and we are nO( allowed 10 <br />live that way, yet are e~pected to live in the white world <br />without the training (0 do SO.M <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br />There are moderates and absolutists. said Major Powell. and <br />John Muir was the most lyrical absolutist of the American <br />WCSL Much of his life was spent waging a battle to preSCTVe <br />Nature as Nature had designed iLSelf and to put man in his <br />proper perspective. Muir was a remarkable hiker. covering <br />thousands of miles of the Nonh American continent - the <br />Sierras.. the glaciers of Alaska, and discovering the Petrified <br />Fortst in Arizona. In 1871. he started taking people on tauts <br />and began to write articles for Eastern newspapers. He cited <br />such successes as the creation of the Sierra Oub to promote <br />Wilderness and the publication in 1894 of his farst book TIle <br />Mountains of Califomi~ and sorN! failwes. such as his fight <br />againsl the darruning of the HelCh HelChec. MI never saw <br />anything created by the hand of man 10 match the temple of <br />God. .. he said. <br /> <br /> <br />Saron W~l"a. c~flier, and Mary Hallock. FOOl~. risht. <br />lalk. willi a cor(e,e"u partit:ipmll. Wjffiam Midhoiland.jar <br />lql, CalCMS up OrIIM _5. <br /> <br />CluJllla~q~a. aMOflg 1M few adidt edw:miofl instilulionJ indigDflJILf <br />to 1M Un.iled SZales. 01lL oflMflF.v wasfOWtded 0rI tM 5horuof <br />ChalUa..qua [,QU, New York, t:ombining edw.:arion. recrearion and <br />relig~. By /878 a ChaMla..qU4 LiJerary and SC~fliiflC Circle g(]\le <br />year.roJVUi servit:e 10 local szlUiy groups, and in /882 a <br />t:orruportth"u scNxA w<1.l' added. TM pro~CI' s .nu:cess irt.rpired <br />imitalWm and by 1886 al ft'lJSt 50 ch.lul~W<1.l' _re KaIlered <br />across tM COlVllry. TM fI'IO\Imw'ru in.f!Jired tr(]\lding t:MM1~W<1.l', <br />I"" firsz appearillg abow /904 Tlu!se CornmhCial vefliwres B(]\Ie <br />progrQM.J in circlLf UralS ill 5m4l1 towIU and villages, empNuiri", <br />popidar I<<IIVU, f1W!iU:. and dramaJit: efliertairvn.efli. TN origUwi <br />CMM1<1OU1u.a. _ lhe Cha~auqua lfl..ftit...,ion, still alul;JC/s "*GIty to <br />iu l1NW01 sfUFlmL'r f1ILdings. <br /> <br />Hearing Be2ins; Interat Groups Teslif)' <br /> <br />Howard Berkes of National Public Radio set the stage for the <br />public hearing on the mythical proposed Coyote Flats Dam. <br />Co-<:hairs of the hearing were U.S. Representative Charles <br />Wilkinson and U.S. Scnalor Patricia Umerick. Berkes pointed <br />out thai Rep. Wilkinson. a Democrat. was a supporter of the <br />Coyote Aats project, while ScnalOr Umerick had voted both <br /> <br />for and against the project. The site for the S600 million dam. <br />just over the mownains. said Berkes. would create a 14.mile <br />lake. holding a supply of one )'eaf's water for four million <br />people. Asking if the project were the Holy Grail or the <br />Temple of Doom, Berkes IislCd the various interestS expected <br />to be represented at the hearing: downstream to\lrr"Tts. recrution <br />