Rustown 1947 Journal 24 Sept. 8 3 ½ mi E, ½ mi N, McChesney Mt, 1900 ft, San Luis Obispo Co, California. I reported seeing 14 Condors. Perched in the south branch of Hay Canyon (my steel traps are in the N branch) and collected 4 Fox Sparrows representing 3 subspecies. Bessel fern collected yesterday and reamothus ? Ericameria which DeMilles brought down from the top of the mountain. Wrote notes etc. Retired about 5. Sept. 9 Heard Poewill calling early in the morning - must have come very near camp. Went up canyon to collect steel traps & heard Mt Densil at lower group of pools, but didn't see any. Nothing in traps. Took some pictures around the cabin & broke camp leaving about 9:15 am. General impressions of this camp. The mood of the camp was perhaps set by what E B McMillan told us about Dario Martinez. Martinez homesteaded here in the early nineties & one summer after he had gotten well settled, he went to Santa Barbara to the fiesta where he found a beautiful Mexican girl whom he brought back to his cabin. He was very jealous of her, & never let her go into town so about 3 or 4 months after their 9 th child was born she went off. Dario rushed off to the road to Pozo & waited 2 days for her to pass, but she was never heard of again. He stayed on & with help of the oldest daughter managed to raise the children - perhaps all but one. No body said much about Dario although once Bill was heard to say out of a clear sky "The Dirty Bastard" which upon questioning was found to refer to the tashing Californian Spaniard referred to above. It is surprising to see so much blue oak woodland about Bigger pric. It is also surprising to find so many amphibians & even turtles in a canyon bottom as dry as this one. The canyon must be particularly beautiful in the spring. This time of