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them, with others, hack to the Penasquitos ranch, and in aboul two 

 weeks after their arrival two deaths occurred, and we Btarted the cattle 

 next day for the Cuyamaca ranch, driving them by way of Poway and 

 El Cajon, and on arrival at Cuyamaca three died the same night. We 



then had no deaths for a few days, when two more died. They all 

 exhihited the same symptoms. Mi'. Shutton's rattle commenced t" die 

 after Governor Waterman's passed through. Mr. Shutton then shipped 

 the remainder to San Diego, and they were slaughtered.' 



"1 must here refer you hack to my interview with Mr. Hardy, at San 

 Diego. Mr. Hardy slapped cattle to El Cajon in April and May. L888, 

 and they began to die in August, 1888. Governor Waterman's cattle, 

 having gone through at the end of July or beginning of August, on 

 their way to Cuyamaca, it would appear that the (iovernor'e cattle 

 may have infected both these herds, as the two cattle which Mr. Hardy 

 slaughtered at San Diego, and which he believed to he a fleeted with 

 Southern fever, were taken from the remainder of Mr. Shutton's herd. 

 which Mr. Hardy purchased from Mr. Shutton. In connection with 

 Governor Waterman's cattle, I must state that, yearly, death- take place 

 at the Penasquitos ranch. It is, however, a curious fact that none of 

 the cattle shipped to San Bernardino from Penasquitos died, hut that 

 the deaths took place two weeks after their return, with other cattle, to 

 Penasquitos, which, the Governor's son informed me, came from their 

 San Bernardino dairy. It is a well-known fact that deaths have occurred 

 close to Colton (which is two miles from San Bernardino) from Southern 

 fever, and it may be that Governor Waterman's cattle crossed a trail 

 and became infected, or became infected from the cars on their return to 

 Penasquitos; but these, being native cattle, could not infect Hardy's and 

 Shutton's herds, unless some Southern cattle were mixed in the herd. 

 It is also a fact, that the hull that died at the Cuyamaca ranch was raised 

 on that ranch, and that there were no deaths there until the arrival of 

 the herd from Penasquitos. I am informed that the original >t<>ck <>i 

 these two ranches was brought in by Colonel Taylor, from Springer 

 (New Mexico), Iowa, and Kansas. 



"I left Cuyamaca to trace up the infection on Warner ranch, and. 

 on my way, passed through the San Felipe ranch, which adjoins the 

 Warner, and 1 found they had lost three head, and attributed their 

 loss to black leg. During one year, they informed me, they had Losl a 

 considerable number with black leg; in fact, it was of annual occurrence. 

 I now crossed the Warner ranch for the second time. 1 passed through 

 the center of the Chihuahua steers, all of which, as well as the nativi -. 

 seemed in splendid condition, no deaths having occurred since my first 

 visit. In following the trail of those cattle, the first place 1 reached 

 was <>ak Grove, owned by Mr. Studebaker, who informed me that the 

 Warner steer- passed through his place, and up to the present no deaths 

 have occurred, hut that one of his cows was Bick and passing bloody 

 urine. He said, also, that one of the Warner steer- had mixed with the 



herd. From here 1 proceeded to Temecula, and found that a great 

 number of cattle had died around this place. Here I interviewed the 

 following named gentlemen : 



" Mr. E. -I. Talan stated that he had lost one heifer three weeks after 



the Warner Ranch cattle passed, and that two years ago he losl thirteen 



head on the san H' trail. Mr. Nickels, ] was informed, lost ten or twelve, 

 ami Mr. Philip Cases lost five head. 1 went to Mr. Hutchinson's dairy 



