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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.