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City Live Stock Commision Company. From this shipment came the 

 cattle bought by Mr. Blackwell, of Lees Summit, and Mr. O'Donald, of 

 Gridley, Kans., which arrived in Kansas City, June 5, 1894. In this 

 shipment were one hundred and fifty-four cattle from the Broome and 

 Tapo ranches, which I consider were infected, and would give disease to 

 susceptible cattle. The same is probably true about the cattle from the 

 Conejo ranch. It is clear to my mind that the fever outbreak in the 

 Blackwell and O'Donald pastures came from the Rose and Hobson cattle, 

 aided somewhat by those from the Conejo ranch. It is said, by the 

 cattlemen of this county, that only a part of the cattle ranches of Cali- 

 fornia are infested with the cattle-ticks, and, from the information I 

 have obtained from various sources, I think this may be true. I am 

 firmly of the opinion that for the safety and protection of other States 

 and Territories, California should be quarantined against, and no cattle 

 allowed to be driven or shipped out of the State, except as provided by 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry in its regulations." 



The following extracts are made from a report submitted by Mr. Hill, 

 February 9, 1895: 



" After gaining what information I could in Los Angeles, I started 

 down the coast for the purpose of visiting some of the ranches and 

 obtaining ticks from the cattle. The first ranch visited was the San 

 Joaquin, below Santa Ana, managed by Mr. George Irvine. On account 

 of a severe rainstorm that prevailed at the time, and the cattle being 

 from five to ten miles away in the Coast Range hills, I was unable to 

 obtain ticks at this ranch. Mr. Irvine said that if I had been present 

 about November 1st, when they removed the ticks from the cattle with 

 a currycomb and saturated their bodies with crude petroleum, I could 

 have obtained a bushel of ticks. Mr. Irvine also informed me that of 

 late years they had brought no cattle, except bulls, from other ranches; 

 that in the spring of 1893 he brought from Puente ranch, elevation 

 1,200 to 1,500 feet, nineteen bulls, all of which died during the follow- 

 ing summer. On a later occasion they brought to their ranch a number 



of yearling bulls, about one half of which died. 



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" Mr. Manuel Lucero, a Mexican, said that he at one time lived near 



the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco, and that he had 



seen plenty of the same kind of ticks in that section of the country. 

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" Mr. Gates, of the firm of Vail & Gates, also informed me that eight 

 or nine years ago he was engaged in the cattle business in the Salinas 

 Valley, between Soledad and Monterey, California, and at that time 



there were plenty of ticks in the valley, and that his cattle were infested. 



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" I did not see Mr. H. C. Hooker, he having disposed of all his cattle 

 and returned to his ranch in Arizona. At Ventura and Santa Barbara 

 I obtained what information was possible from other persons concerning 

 his cattle shipments from California to Kansas during the summer of 

 1894, as follows: 



" He sent three trains, two of them from the Foxon, or Bell ranch, 

 near Los Oligos, California; the third or last train was from the Santa 

 Anita, or Hollister, ranch, near the Santa Ynez Mountain, bordering on 



