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posal we could make a cattle paper of "The 

 Breeder's Gazette" that would compel recognition 

 in influential circles. It was a gold mine. The 

 price was $1,500 cash. That staggered me a 

 little; but I posted back to Chicago and recom- 

 mended the purchase, even if we had to curtail 

 expenditures in other directions. The deal was 

 closed by wire, the draft forwarded and the 

 material shipped. Hence the announcement appear- 

 ing in the very first issue of "The Gazette" to the 

 effect that the RUST collection was to be a part of 

 our library, and that cattle matters in the new 

 paper would be in my special charge. Before the 

 winter had passed the paper was upon a paying 

 basis. 



A little later J. H. SANDERS was named by the 

 President of the United States as one of a com- 

 mission authorized by Congress to locate lands 

 adjacent to certain Atlantic seaboard cities for the 

 establishment of quarantine stations for the deten- 

 tion of cattle then being imported in large numbers 

 from England, Scotland, the Netherlands and the 

 Channel Islands. Prof. JAMES LAW of Cornell Uni- 

 versity and the Secretary of the Treasury were the 

 other members. This served to bring 'The Gazette" 

 into still closer relationship with its patrons. In 



