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and 2 cows on the Boyd trail. No loss. We next saw Mr, S. H. Coyer, 

 IJ miles northeast of L. M. Pratt's. He took 18 cows mto the Botkin 

 herd soon after the Boyd cattle passed his place. One of tliein died on 

 the Botkin range, in July ; he then took them home, but they continued 

 to die until 14 out of the 18 head were dead. 



We then proceeded towards Silas M. Shafer's place, north of Attica 

 post-office. On the way we met his brother, who told us'that Silas lost 

 10 out of 18 head of cattle ; they died in July and September. These 

 cattle crossed the Boyd trail in the spring. On the 1st day of July they 

 were taken into the Botkin herd, and remained there until the middle 

 of the month. In the latter i)art of A])ril, or beginning of May, a small 

 herd of strange cat tie were driven over the same trail that Boyd's cattle 

 passed over. This trail is located a mile south of Shafer's house. Mr. 

 Shafer has resided here for o years, and has never before lost any cat- 

 tle. I saw Mr. Helbert, who liveS'2 miles west of Pratt's, at Anthony, 

 on the 1st of November. He stated that he had two cows which fol- 

 lowed the Boyd herd on the 9th of April for a distance of 2 miles, and 

 that duriug the summer they grazed over the Boyd trail, otif and on, 

 without any bad results following. We then turned toward Harper, 

 and on the way stopped at Elijah Yian's pla' e, 10 miles southwest of 

 Harper. He lost 30 out of 100 head of cattle during the month of Sep- 

 tember. Their range was south of the Boyd trail. On the 20th we 

 drove north of Harper to gather the history of an outbreak which had 

 occurred in that locality. We first saw Mr. A. S. Woodward, who re- 

 sides 3 miles north of Harper. He reported a loss of 14 head of cattle 

 out of 32. These cattle, together with 29 head belonging to D. W. Fye, 

 were herded on the same range all summer, said range being H miles 

 square. One cow belonging to Mr. Carpenter, another to Mr. Creighton, 

 were also kept in this herd ; both of them died, and 20 out of the 29 

 belonging to Mr. Fye died. The disease manifested itself about the 1st 

 of September, and in the space of three weeks' time all of these deaths 

 occurred. Eight in the herd which presented evidences of sickness re- 

 covered. They were all good grade native cattle. The history as given 

 me by Mr. Woodward of the symptoms during life, and of the 2)ost- 

 mortem appearances, leads me to the conclusion that these cattle died 

 with southern cattle fever. 



Proceeding from Mr. Woodward's place eastward, 1 mile, to the resi- 

 dence of JohnChallis, 1 was there informed by Mr. Challis, jr., that 12 

 out of 100 head of their cattle died and 6 recovered. Here, also, the 

 disease appeared about the 1st of September. Forty head of these cat- 

 tle were brought from Donii)han County on the 12th of iMa> , and were 

 driven from the stock-yards at Harper, 4 miles northwest, to Mr. Chal- 

 lis' herd. Two of the Donii)han County cattle died; the other 10 

 were of the domestic herd. On the Otli of June, 200 head of cattle, 

 said to have been from Memphis, Tenn., were brought into Harper, un- 

 loaded at the stock-yards, and driven north 3 miles, where they were 



