california condor Eben McMILLAN 19 June 1964 member of the family who own the Avenales Ranch. He assured me we could get saddle horses at the Avenales with which we could ride the telephone line between Avenales and Buckhorn Ranches in search for the condor carcass Murphey ChaneY was to have seen. The man at the Buckhorn Ranch today, told me that out of 1205 cattle that had been shipped into the Buckhorn Ranch, the greater portion of which were herford or herford Durham crosses and considered standard to good grade cattle, he had lost 23 head from one cause or another. He thought about Twenty Percent of this number of cattle shipped in were Mexican, or mex-Brahma cross. Of these he lost only one. This seems to again bear out the thinking that the Mexican or mex-Brahma crossbred cattle are much hardier and less susceptible to disease than are the better grades of cattle. A letter from Mrs. Rutledge today - stated Jim Rutledge had observed 8 condor today 8 miles east of Porterville Calif. Just off reservation road. That was the extent of her message, I wrote for more particulars. Particulars stated he observed these condor at 12:00 noon today. They were feeding on the carcass of a dead fox.