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California Condor Eben McMillan 25 april 1964
Mrs. Reyes then told us how the man, who was doing the
brush clearing with his Bulldozer near Salisbury Potrero, when
arriving on the ground to so at his work found his
tuck missing and returning to the Reyes Ranch
was much worried as to its whereabouts. Upon being filled in
on happenings of the day previous he returned and after
bunting for some time found his truck several miles
from where he had formally left it, at a location the
two Trespassers had left it after returning to their Jeep
with the Gasoline.
Mrs. Reyes is of the opinion that the two men who
trespassed on primitive area, took another automobile
or truck, without authorization of the owner and took
Gasoline from Mrs. Reyes without Paying generally disturbed
the General area, had been fined in Court. It will
be interesting to see how this episode actually turned out.
One thing is sure, [illegible] One can easily see why
Mrs. Reyes would not be in favor of seeing the Sierra
Madre Ridge Road becoming a general Public thoroughfare.
We returned home via Taft and Blackwells Corner. From South
Bellridge to Blackwells Corner great numbers of Antelope
Ground squirrels were observed feeding from the grasses that
still remain green along the edges of the highway Right-
of-way, most of these Ground squirrels were immatures. Between
South and North Bellridge Oil fields, a distance of about five
miles, the numbers of these squirrels was estimated at more
than Twenty per hundred feet of Roadway.