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through in August, and that his cattle died before they came through; and, 

 as Mr. Hutchinson's hoys informed me they saw steers around the hills in 

 the vicinity of Temecula as early as the sixth of July, they could not be 

 stragglers from those that went through in August. 



I now proceeded to the Santa Marguerita Ranch, when Mr. O'Neil 

 informed me, concerning the Warner steers, that Mr. Strausenbach brought 

 them from Chihauhua and pastured them on the Castile Ranch, fifteen 

 miles from Col ton, and sold them to ex-Governor Downey; he went to see 

 these cattle, but declined to purchase them. On the twelfth of July, I 

 delivered cattle to Hardy, of San Diego, and he informed me that he had 

 seen stragglers (southern cattle) on the hills around Temecula; this seems 

 to coincide with the date of the death of Mr. Hutchinson's first cow. He 

 also said that Colonel Taylor brought cattle from Texas to Cuyamaca and 

 Penasquitus two years ago, and some of these, which were of a high grade, 

 died, the Texans,in his opinion, infecting them; also that they are killing- 

 Texan and New Mexican cattle continually in San Bernardino City. He 

 stated his own losses had been about ten to fifteen head this fall, and attrib- 

 uted the same to cinnabar poisoning and ticks. From here I went to San 

 Juan Capistrano, and interviewed Mr. Marcus Foster; he said that Mr. 

 O'Neil brought in cattle from Texas on to the Santa Marguerita Ranch, 

 which adjoins his, and that said cattle broke down the fences and mixed 

 with his, and he lost two head. Next year the same thing occurred, and 

 they mixed with others he brought from Arizona, and he lost from eight 

 hundred to one thousand head; this year, 1888, he lost about one hundred 

 head. I made an autopsy on this ranch, and found the cause of death to 

 be southern fever. He further stated all the ranches below have been 

 affected in a similar manner, and as we never had the disease before, it 

 must have been brought in to the ranch. 



I went to Col ton, where the Warner steers were unshipped. I inter- 

 viewed Mr. Castile, owner of the Castile Ranch. He said: " Mr. Strausen- 

 bach brought four hundred steers from Chihuahua to my ranch, fifteen miles 

 from here, in June, 1888, and pastured them on my ranch for two months, 

 and then sold them to ex-Governor Downey. His son helped to deliver 

 them on to Warner's Ranch, and denied losing any on the way. In Septem- 

 ber, 1887, I lost fifty-six dairy cows worth $3,000, and attribute this loss to 

 cattle being driven across my ranch and affecting it. This year I lost none." 



I now proceeded to the Southern Pacific Office at Colton, and found the 

 shipment of cattle to this point, as follows: 



First — From Benson, Arizona, arrived May third, for Marcus Foster, San 

 Juan Capistrano. 



Second — From Tucson, Arizona, arrived April sixth, also for Marcus 

 Foster. 



Third — March thirteenth, Mr. Strausenbach shipped one hundred and 

 thirteen head of cattle, but they were slaughtered in Colton and San Ber- 

 nardino. 



I now went to the Santa Fe office at Colton and found that Strausenbach 

 shipped four hundred head of Chihuahua cattle into Colton on June 6> 

 1888, and sent them down to the Castile Ranch, as already stated. Hav- 

 ing now obtained all the evidence, and with due regard to conflicting 

 statements, no doubt purposely made in a great many cases, I drew the 

 following conclusions concerning the outbreak of southern fever in San 

 Diego County: That southern cattle have been shipped into Colton, and 

 there traveled by the following trails: that going to Warner's Ranch, and 

 that going to Capistrano, and also by O'Neil's trail from San Gorgonia to 



