328 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



signer and consignee, and way-bill reference, that such information may be fur- 

 nished the officers of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry as will enable 

 them to trace the cattle. 

 Approved: 



For the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and the Southern Kansas 

 Railway Company, 



J. F. GODDARD, G. M. 

 For the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, 



W. SNYDER, O. M. 



For the Houston, East and West Texas Railway Company and Shreveport 

 and Houston Railway, 



M. G. HOWE, Receiver and G. M. 

 For the Houston and Texas Central Railway, and Texas Central Railway, 



CHAS. DILLINGHAM, Receiver. 



For the Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis Railway, and Kansas City, 

 Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, 



GEO. H. NETTLETON, President and G. M. 

 For the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, 



W.H.NEWMAN, 3d F. P. 

 For the Memphis and Little Rock Railway, 



RUDOLPH FINK, President and G. M. 

 For the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway, 



R.C.KERENS, V. P. 

 For the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, 



W. H. NEWMAN, 3d V. P. 

 For the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, 



H. L. MORRILL, 2d V. P. and G. M. 

 For the Southern Pacific Company Atlantic system, 



A. C. HUTCHINSON, G. M. 

 For the Texas and Pacific Railway, 



JOHN A. GRANT, G. M. 



This circular was forwarded from this office for signature November 1, 1887. Re- 

 turned, signed as above and ordered printed December 16, 1887, and is hereby made 

 effective January 1, 1888. 

 Official. (Signed by Commissioner.) 



I have found the managers of western railway lines to be equally 

 alive to the importance of doing all in their power to protect the 

 cattle interests of their respective territories, and in all cases the 

 western roads have instructed their agents to respect and carry out 

 the quarantine regulations of the States and Territories which they 

 pass through. As indicating the general tenor of the action that 

 has been taken by railroads in this important matter, I attach hereto 

 a letter from the general freight agent of the St. Louis and San 

 Francisco Railway Company, which is a sample of numerous other 

 letters I have from officials of other roads: 



ST. Louis, October 10, 1887. 

 H. M. TAYLOR, Esq., 



Agent U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 



Kansas City, Mo.: 



SIR: Your circular letter of the 7th instant, calling attention to Commissioner 

 Colman's circular of May 31 last, is before me. In reply to same beg to state, for 

 your information, that we have been as careful of the live-stock interests of the 

 Indian Territory, where they have no laws to protect them against disease, as we 

 have been of any other territory where these interests are protected by the act of 

 legislature. We have declined to transport cattle into the Indian Territory from 

 the State of Texas, or from any other quarter, where disease has been known to 

 exist, believing that by so doing we were protecting our own interests as well as 

 those of the cattle shippers and owners. You can rely upon our hearty co-opera- 

 tion in the matter referred to in your communication. 

 Yours truly, 



G. W. CALE, G. F. A. 



I would suggest to the different State and Territorial live-stock 

 sanitary authorities the importance of arranging with railroad com- 



