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Georgetown, Ky.; Greenville, Lebanon, Montgomery, and Bucyrus, 

 Ohio; Green County, Ind. ; Chicago, Decatur, and Evanston, III.; St. 

 Louis, Maramee, and Faj^ette, Mo. ; Baltimore, Md. ; Leavenworth, 

 Kans. ; Brownsville, Pittsburg, Washington, and Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 New York City, N.Y. ; Boston and Belmont, Mass.; Austin, Tex.; and 

 in the States of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, California, and in other 

 localities. So it will be observed that they were so distributed as to 

 test in a most excellent manner the several phases of our climate upon 

 them. On account of the civil war, however, little or no progress was 

 made in the South, where the largest herd^' were located and where 

 most interest was manu'ested, until about 1866. Soon after the close 

 of the war they spread out into the West, principally into Texas and 

 California, where the natural conditions were most favorable, and 

 where they have, quite unknown to the public, increased wonderfully 

 in numbers and, in the light of recent events, in importance also. 



In the spring of 1861 Colonel Peters sold two 16-months-old bucks 

 to William M. Landrum, of San Joaquin County, Cal. They were 

 sent from Atlanta to St. Louis by express ; thence by steamer to 

 Fort Leavenworth, and thence on foot to California with a wagon 

 train. They subsisted on the journey by browsing on what other ani- 

 mals rejected, and arrived at their destination uninjured and in good 

 condition. Mr. Landrum exhibited them at the State fair the same 

 year, being awarded a silver goblet and $25 in cash. One of the goats, 

 after siring about thirty kids, died of snake bite; the other one, famous 

 on the Pacific coast under the name of '""Billy Atlanta," lived to be 10 

 years old, and then was accidentally killed. He had sired about two 

 thousand kids. This buck won the sweepstakes prize over all compet- 

 itors at every State fair down to his death; and Colonel Peters stated 

 in 1876 that his numerous descendants were scattered all along the 

 Pacific coast, and that "his blood courses in the veins of over one-half 

 the Angora flocks in that part of the Union, estimated to approximate 

 70,000." Colonel Peters further stated "that about one-third of the 

 purebreds introduced into California were contributed from the first 

 and original (Davis) importation of 1849, and that their blood is pres- 

 ent in probably two-thirds or three-fourths of the Angora stock on the 

 Pacific coast." 



Mr. Landrum was in California from 1850 to 1883, after which time 

 he went to Texas. He is now at Laguna, Uvalde County, Tex., and, 

 with his sons, is still interested in the Angora goat industry. The 

 Chenery importation was shipped b}^ the British consul in Angora to 

 Constantinople, where they were sorted by Mr. John R. Thompson and 

 the American consul, and shipped by a sailing vessel to Boston. 



Ten head of the Chenery importation were taken to California and 

 disposed of as follows: A pair to C. P. Bailey, San Jose, at $500 each; 

 a pair to Thomas Butterfield & Son, Watsonville; a pair to William 

 M. Landrum, San Joaquin County; a pair to Mr. Pierson, Santa Cruz; 

 and a pair to Flint & Sargent, Monterey County. This lot was the 



