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Grever, of near Medicine Lodge, Kans. Mr. Grever drove the cattle from this 

 county in the month of July to near the south line of Kansas, put same in with 

 other cattle there, a part of which were native Kansas cattle, grazed them to- 

 gether till fall, and there was not a case of splenic fever among any of them. 

 Later in the fall of 1885 we drove 800 head of steers to Hill County to feed for 

 market, and there were several that were sick with every symptom of splenic fever. 

 Again, in the fall of 1886, we drove 400 head to Hill County, and several were 

 affected in the same way. 



Mr. S. J. Blocker, San Angelo, Tom Green County: 

 I do not know of any bulls, or any other class of cattle, that have been brought 

 to this part of the country from Kansas or any other northern locality. I have 

 brought cattle from several of the named counties to Tom Green, and never have 

 lost any from disease. Have put them in the same pasture with the native cattle. 

 In 1886 I brought from Maverick County to this county 2,000 steers (yearlings), 

 wintered them with the rest of my cattle, and drove them to Wyoming last spring, 

 and I never saw healthier cattle in my life. Have been wintering steers here for 

 three winters, and they all came from the southern counties. 



Mr. William H. Jolly, manager of the Cresent H. Ranch, Wichita 

 Falls, Wichita County: 



There have been lots of bulls shipped into the adjoining counties from all parts 

 of the Northern States, and as far as I know there have been no losses among them. 

 There have been driven through our range, in Clay and Wichita Counties, in the 

 past four years, thousands of head of cattle, from all parts of eastern and southern 

 Texas, en route to Tom Green and other western counties and the Indian Territory, 

 and we* have never lost any of our native cattle from any disease from coming in 

 contact with the trail cattle. 



The foregoing letters and statements are the result of numerous 

 and persistent applications to stockmen of Texas for information, 

 desired by the Department. I am in hopes that further investiga- 

 tion the present season will definitely settle this vexed question, so 

 that the greatest freedom of movement for Texas cattle can be se- 

 cured consistent with protection to northern cattle. When the line 

 is officially determined upon by the Department, separating the in- 

 fected portions from the non-infected portions of Texas, I am satis- 

 fied that it will be respected by the live-stock sanitary authorities of 

 Northern States and Territories, and cattle from the non-infected 

 districts will be permitted to be shipped north without restrictions 

 other than satisfactory evidence that the cattle are either natives of 

 the non-infected districts, or have been there over ninety days, 

 which is admitted by all competent authorities to be ample time to 

 purge them of all infection. There is a disposition on the part of 

 some of the northern authorities to permit cattle from even the 

 known infected districts to be shipped into their territories, provided 

 they are kept separate and apart from native cattle en route by be- 

 ing fed and watered in pens provided for their special use, and un- 

 loaded directly into pastures provided for that purpose, from which 

 all native cattle are excluded. It is generally conceded that the 

 most profitable feature of the cattle business of the northern ranges 

 is the maturing of southern steers, and the demands of commerce 

 will, with intelligent direction, undoubtedly secure arrangements of 

 the nature indicated which will afford a northern outlet for south- 

 ern cattle from the infected districts without entailing any particular 

 hardship. While the northern ranges are being rapidly encroached 

 upon by settlers, at the same time the arid nature of the country 

 will for all time preclude any other use of large areas of land except 

 for grazing purposes, and if the breeding of cattle on northern ranges, 

 which has generally been found unprofitable, is abandoned, the 

 movement of southern steers to northern maturing fields will un- 



