328 BEPOET OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



secured, and that knowledge of them should be widely disseminated 

 among shippers. It shall be my aim to secure these results during 

 the coming year. 



RAILROAD CO-OPERATION. 



There has been a very general apprehension on the part of Western 

 cattlemen that contagious pleuro-pneumonia would be introduced 

 from the East upon Western cattle ranges. While most of the West- 

 ern States and Territories have enacted effective sanitary laws which 

 are being efficiently enforced by capable officials, at the same time 

 some contiguous States and Territories have been without any live- 

 stock sanitary laws, and, in consequence, without any power to pro- 

 tect themselves from the introduction of diseased cattle. Until re- 

 cently Dakota was without any effective legislation on this subject, 

 which endangered the herds of Montana and Wyoming to almost as 

 great an extent as if those Territories had not done all that was in 

 their power to protect their interests. Texas, at the present time, is 

 in the position formerly occupied by Dakota, and the only protection 

 she has is afforded by the law under which the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry is operating. 



The managers of the railways belonging to the Texas Traffic Asso- 

 ciation being fully alive to the danger, and appreciating the fact 

 that their interests are in common with the cattle producers from 

 whom they receive on an average a fifth of the annual returns from 

 the sale of beeves in the way or freights, expressed a desire to have 

 the Department issue regulations placing restrictions upon the move- 

 ment of cattle from districts in the East infected with pleuro-pneu- 

 monia. I have attended, a number of meetings of this association, 

 and I have always found its members- ready and anxious to co-oper- 

 ate with the Bureau to the fullest extent. 



The following is a copy of a circular that has been issued by the 

 managers of all the railroads belonging to the association to their 

 agents, the enforcement of which affords a degree of protection not 

 previously attained : 



Tlie Texas Traffic Association. 



^The Atchison,Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad, and 

 the Southern Kansas Railway Company. 



The Gulf, Colorado and Santa F6 Railway Com- 

 pany. 



The Houston, East and West Texas Railway, and 

 the Shreveport and Houston Railway Com- 



pany. 



The Houston and Texas Central Railway. 



The Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis Rail- 

 way, and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf 

 Railroad. 



The Missouri Pacific Railway Company. 



The Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company. 



The Southern Pacific Company Atlantic system. 



The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail- 

 road Company. 



The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway. 



The St. Louis and San Francisco Rail way Com- 

 pany 



The Texas and Pacific Railway. 



The Texas Central Railway. 



CIRCULAR No. 246. 



HOUSTON, TEX., December 16, 1887, 



The executive committee of the Texas Traffic Association at convention held at 

 St. Louis, October 20, 1887, adopted the following : 



"Resolved, That the attached circular relative to the establishment of rules for 

 the transportation of cattle into Texas from territory east of the Mississippi River, 

 be submitted by the commissioner to the several lines in the association, with re- 

 quest that they advise their views as to the advisability of its issuance. In the 



