P-421 Bakerfield Henry McKenzie California Condor Ebend Mcmillan 5 November 1962 [illegible] Poison Years ago. He thinks this new squirrel poison has killed the condor off. He remembers when they first commenced poisoning squirrels with strychnine baited wheat, or barley. Condor followed the poisoning crews about and would be strung out behind them feeding on the dead squirrels. About 20 years ago, some men by the name of Harris, were supposed to have found the egg of a condor in Tecopa, or Salt Canyons, to the West of the Grapevine Canyon. Henry McKenzie remembers when there were lots of sheep on the Tejon Ranch. A man by the name of Pete Miller was sheep boss. He used to ride about the Ranch Property carrying food and other necessities to the shepherds, who were mostly Indians. He said his father was a cattle boss for General Beal and at one time or another moved his family to all parts of the ranch. As a young lad Henry McKenzie lived at La Liebre Rancho, The Fort (Fort Tejon), White Wolf, and in the canyon behind old Tejon Ranch Headquarters, where his father took up a homestead that is still held by Mr. McKenzie. He thinks that a cycle of dry years has held all of central California in a grip for the last thirty years. He thinks this drought is what is responsible for the Valley Oaks dying out on the Tejon Rancho.