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California Condor
Eben McMILLAN
27 September 1963
both Mr. and Mrs. Shaubach to be very interested in wildlife
as well as being good observers. They are both people probably
in their sixty's, and have [illegible] on their ranch here for about Twenty
Years. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Shaubach knew of Condor ever having been in their
country and were quite sure they had never observed birds in their area that
would be as large as condor.
Mrs. Jameson answered my questions as did all other residents
of this area, in a negative manner. That is, they were not aware of
Condor. Mrs. Jameson, who lives in her nice Ranch home, that is
located on the east side of 41 highway and about one-quarter
mile south of the 41 Highway-Madera to Friant Road N10.145. Crossroads
is the daughter of the late Mr. O'Neil, founder of the Town of
@Nails, and one of the early Settlers and large landowners of
this area. She had never heard her parents speak of Condor, nor had she
ever talked to anyone in the area who had seen Condor.
At a roadside Tavern, on the North side of Friant Dam, I met a
Mr. McDougald, who is the father of D.N. McDougald, to whom I had
Talked to earlier in the day. The elder McDougald, although being a
sizeable Stockman and owner of good acreage in the area to
the North of the Friant Dam impoundment, thought it unlikely
that Condor ever frequented his range much in late years, for
he professed to be quite observing and had never seen large
birds that would answer the description of a Condor.
At the Indian mission, on the Table Mountain Indian Reservation, that
is about five miles East of Friant, on the Auberry Road, I talked with
John Grigsby who was born and raised on the reservation and has
spent a good part of his 60 plus years hunting and prowling—