California Condor Eben McMillan 23 MAY 1964 To-day was cool with brisk west wind and high thin clouds in morning that thickened by mid-afternoon and thickened while threatening rain in the evening. A postal card from Mrs. Farnsworth, mailed at Glennville the afternoon of May 22, read thusly: one circling at the cannell corral between Carl West's and Granite Station at about 10 A.M. Thursday May, 21, with two buzzards probably feeding on the Nites' road casualties. signed; Farnsworth. I am sure this is authentic information and probably heralds the coming of condor to the Granite Station area to partake of the squirrel poisoning bill of fare at this season. Talking to Allen Still on the phone today he mentioned having heard of two Condor having been found poisoned by 1080 poison in Kern County. Mr. Still thought these Condor had been sent to the University of California, at Davis, where tests were made to identify the cause of death. Still is County squirrel poisoner! Yesterday, Jim Beard, who works for Hugh and Charlotte Smith on their property near Woody, told me that a Kenneth Mattern, who had worked with him for about two weeks, told Mr. Beard that he had seen Condor for the first time in his life while working on the Cantua Ranch last winter. This Ranch is north of Coalinga, California