Field journal, v4159
Page 117
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Transcription
Pinnacles Mar 4, 1930. This collection of relics is to be donated to the monument as soon as there is housing or museum facilities. (My personal opinion is that the collection is not worth much. It is simply an endless repetition of the same thing, gathered in a haphazard fashion without records). There is another collection like it, in Monterey County, which will be given to the monument under the same conditions. A rancher near the Pinnacles has the last Condor's egg taken from the Pinnacles, which was about 40 years ago. He is holding it for about $500. In general: Hawkinson is anxious to get the egg for a spectacle, & the mortars too. He hopes for a direct road over to Gonzales or thereabouts. He is a loyal Pinnacles man, but sees only the spectacular side.