California condor Eben McMillan 24 october 1963 Reading into Tejon Canyon, from Arvin, I met a Mr. Davis who works for an Oil Company that has wells in this area. Mr. Davis Told me of seeing Condor in past years, but none lately, W.E. Nichols, a deer hunting patrolman for Tejon Ranch, told me he saw two Condor circling at the mouth of Pastoria Canyon on the Tejon Ranch on October 6, 1963. Jose Gomez, a Mexican cowboy on Tejon, saw six Condor about Ten o'clock in the morning about one mile south of Old Tejon Ranch headquarters on October 22, 1963. No word of Condor at Tejon Ranch Office in Lebec. I met Henry Melendy at the Union Oil Company Service Station at Grapevine, at the north outlet of Grapevine Creek. He had seen no Condor. Mr. Melendy said that Deer hunters were still giving him problems. He has found the carcasses of dead spike bucks that had been shot, as well as some Doe deer, that had been wounded, or shot outright and left to lay. He thinks most of this irresponsible shooting is being done by unauthorized hunters who slip into the ranch property from the desert side. Henry was at this hour, 5:15 p.m., just going out to attempt to catch the son of Jose Mendiburu, a leaseholder of grazing rights, on Tejon Ranch. Young Mendiburu will not hunt on his father's lease, but slips into the section reserved for owners and stockholders, John Grigsby I drove to Rose Station, an old stage station that is now represented only by Cattle Corrals and a hay barn and is located about two miles east of Grapevine Station on highway 99, where I met the buckaroos of Tejon Ranch as they came in to these corrals. None of the cowboys had-