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" Their second and last purchase was one thousand eight hundred 

 head at Tehachapi, on the Mojave desert, elevation four to five thou- 

 sand feet above the sea level. These cattle were moved in two drives, 

 the first drive about June 1, 1893, and the second about June 1~>, 



1893. About six hundred of the one thousand eight hundred were 

 taken to the Tapo ranch, where one hundred of them died. The other 

 twelve hundred were placed on the Broome ranch, and in a month six 

 hundred of these had died, and yet none of the cattle which were on 

 the ranches previous to the purchases above made had died or been sick. 

 The total loss was nine hundred and seventy head. It seems clear to 

 me that the two thousand three hundred head bought and placed on 

 these ranches were susceptible cattle, and those which were previously 

 on the two ranches were infectious and gave the disease to those which 

 had been purchased elsewhere and moved onto these ranches. I call it 

 Texas fever. Mr. Rose further said that when the fall rains came and 

 the weather became colder, the cattle quit dying, and he has had no 

 further trouble in that direction. In the spring of 1894, owing to the 

 limited amount of rainfall the previous winter, and the probability of 

 the coming season being dry, with a scarcity of feed on the ranges, he 

 and Mr. Hobson concluded to wind up their cattle business; and to better 

 accomplish this, they divided the cattle. From the portion taken by 

 Mr. Rose, three hundred and forty-one head were driven across the 

 country to Los Angeles, where he shipped them, via the Santa Fe Rail- 

 road, to Barse Commission Company, Kansas City, Missouri; one heifer 

 died en route, leaving three hundred and forty head, which he says were 

 sold to a Kansas man by the name of Pitney. He further said that it 

 was quite likely these cattle had some ticks on them when shipped; 

 that he did not especially recollect about it, but that the remaining cat- 

 tle left at home had an abundance of ticks during the summer, and lie 

 therefore took it for granted that the cattle shipped must have had ticks. 

 This is the only shipment made by Mr. Rose to points outside of Cali- 

 fornia. 



" Now, Mr. Dean, I think a careful perusal of the above will convince 

 you, as it has me, as to how the Berry pasture became infected. I have 

 traced two shipments of infectious cattle from California to this pasture, 

 either of which could have infected it. One by J. L. Heath, shipped 

 from Los Flores, California, about June 1st, arriving at Hymer June 8, 



1894, and the other by L. J. Rose, from Los Angeles, about May 21st, 

 and arriving at Hymer May 27, 1894. Each of these shipments of cat- 

 tle remained in the Merry pasture about two weeks. Mr. Rose also said 

 that his cattle, when sick, voided bloody urine, and a post mortem exam- 

 ination showed an enlarged spleen symptoms of Texas fever. 



" Mr. Muse gave ine the following history of the W'il lough by shipment 

 of cattle last summer, to wit: He made two shipments; the first was 

 from his own ranch, which all say is not infested with ticks oi any kind. 

 Mr. Dunn, of this place, went with this shipment . For Mr. Willoughby J S 



second shipment, he boughl one hundred and fifty-four bead from 

 William Hobson, they being part of the Rose and Hobson cattle from the 

 Broome and Tapo ranches t infected ranches). The balance came from 

 the Conejo and Casitas ranches. The Conejo adjoins the Broome ranch, 



and is said to he infested with ticks. The Casitas is some miles 

 distant, and said to be free from ticks. Mr. Willoughhy's boyB 

 went with this last shipment, which was consigned to the Kansas 



