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same tiling occurred, and the animals mixed with hi>, as well as others 

 which he brought from Arizona, and he lost from eight hundred to one 



thousand head. This year (1888) he lost about one hundred head. Hi 

 further remarked that all the ranches below had been affected in a simi- 

 lar manner, and as they never had this disease before, it nm-i have been 

 brought in. 1 made an autopsy on this ranch, and found tie- Lesions 

 those of Southern fever. 



"1 now started hack on the trail of the Warner steers, and went to 

 Colton. I here interviewed Mr. Castile, owner of the Castile ranch, and 

 he informed me that Mr. Strumsbaker brought four hundred Bteers from 

 Chihuahua, unshipped at Colton, and drove them to his ranch, fifteeu 

 miles from Colton, about June 6, 1888, and pastured them there two 

 months. He then sold them to ex-Governor Downey, and hi- -on 

 helped to deliver them on the Warner ranch. He denied losing any 

 on the way. He further said that a year ago, in September, 1887, he 

 lost fifty-six dairy cows, which he valued at $3,000, and ascribed the 

 cause to cattle being driven across the ranch. This year he had ; - 

 none. 



"I now proceeded to the Southern Pacific office at Colton, and found 

 the shipments to this point as follows: (1) From Benson, Ariz., for 

 Mr. Marcus Foster, San Juan de Capistrano, unloaded May 4, L888 

 (2) From Tucson, Ariz., for Mr. Marcus Foster, San Juan de Capistrano, 

 unloaded April 6, 1888; (3) On March 13, Mr. Strumsbaker shipped in 

 one hundred and thirteen head, which I found were slaughtered at 

 Colton and San Bernardino. 



"At the Santa Fe office, in Colton, I found that Mr. Strumsbaker 

 shipped four hundred head of cattle from Chihuahua, which arrived 

 June •"), where they were unloaded and sent down to the Castile ranch, 

 as already stated. 



"I had the greatest difficulty in getting my questions answered, and 

 in a good many instances, instead of trying to assist, they tried to mis- 

 lead and perplex me. 



" Having now obtained all the evidence I could concerning the out- 

 break of disease in San Diego County, and with due regard to conflict- 

 ing statements, no doubt purposely made in a great many ca6es, 1 draw 

 the following conclusion-: 



"That Texan, Arizona, and Mexican cattle have been shipped into 

 Colton, and from there traveled by the trail going to Warner's Ranch 

 and that going to Capistrano; also, by O'Neil's trail from San Gorgonio 

 to Rancho Santa Margarita, and that the cattle infected these trail- and 

 the individual ranches, and by that means caused the death of bo many 

 native cuttle in San Diego County. The only objection 1 can Bee to 

 these conclusions is: Can permanent infection exist, as Mr. Mercer was 

 inclined to think during our inspection in the Salinas Valley of Monte- 

 rey County? To prove this would require further and special examina- 

 tion of tin' varioii- ranches in California at a time when the disease is 

 at its height. 



" In Los Angeles City, Dr. Whittlesey, Y.S., drew my attention to the 



fact that BOme COWS had died within the city limits, from what he <up- 



posed was Southern fever. The cows belonged to Mr. W. \V. Cate, who 



aid that his cows died from red-water, and were treated for the disease 



by an empiric, without any of them recovering. The animals were in the 



babil <>f grazing in the river bottoms, along which river-bed Scanton 



