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N. Smith, Lexington, 111. Mr. Sanders came to the rescue in 

 the pinch, and was so successful that his permanence as a live- 

 stock writer was assured. With the launching of The Breeder's 

 Gazette in December, 1881, Mr. Sanders took most active steps 

 toward the upbuilding of the new undertaking. He personally 

 made a trip to Colorado to secure for $1,500 the invaluable 

 collection of old sale catalogs and herd documents belonging to 

 George Rusk that gave almost the week to week story of Short- 

 horn beginnings in America. In 1883 he was first charged with 

 the entire responsibility of editing and publishing the paper, a 

 position he has held unremittingly ever since. 



The national prestige of The Breeder's Gazette has led Mr. 

 Sanders into many public undertakings. He was one of the 

 guarantors of the International Livestock Exposition and one 

 of the founders of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. In 1900 he 

 was a member of the United States Commission to the Paris 

 Exposition, and under President Taft's administration was Vice 

 Chairman of the U. S. Tariff Board, with personal attention to 

 the wool tariff and the wool growing situation. For a number 

 of years he was president and vice-president of the International 

 Livestock Exposition and for his broad agricultural service was 

 made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold by the King of 

 Belgium. 



Mr. Sanders' personal acquaintance and intimacy with the 

 rapidly vanishing pioneers of the Booth and Bates tribes, and 

 his hearty co-operation with the builders of the Scottish power, 

 brought him in the closing years of the last century to prepare a 

 "History of Shorthorn Cattle" which came off the press in 1900. 

 For the next dozen years he was so occupied that he did not 

 pursue his success there won. Following his release from the 

 Tariff Board, however, he again took up his pen, and in 1914 

 "The Story of the Herefords" was put forth by the Sanders 

 Publishing Company. In 1915 "At the Sign of the Stock Yard 



