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the medium of communication with the public that 

 combined to render his services invaluable at this 

 juncture; the more so because he had the confidence 

 of the western people, and had already proved his 

 breadth of view by adding to his own stud in Iowa, 

 by purchase from Hon. George Murray of Eacine, 

 Wis., at a cost of $5,000 the celebrated imported 

 Clydesdale stallion Donald Dinnie. His sympathy 

 with and advocacy of all the improved breeds prom- 

 ising to be useful to the American people was a mat- 

 ter of common knowledge.* 



Foundation of the Stud Book. — With the great 

 expansion of the importing business following the 

 entrance into it of the Dillon confederacy and M. W. 

 Dunham the necessity for the establishment of a stud 

 book was sensed by those most in interest. Up to 

 that time "The General Stud Book" of England, 

 wherein the pedigrees of, and other data concerning, 

 the Thoroughbred horse were preserved, had been 

 the sole register of the kind in existence. Neither in 

 France nor in Britain had a similar record been 



*In further illustration of Mr. Sanders' desire to work disin- 

 terestedly for the Improvement of our American draft horse stock 

 as a whole, may be cited the following announcement appearing In 

 the editorial columns of the "National Live Stock Journal" for 

 December, 1876: 



"A Clydesdale Register. — At the urgent request of many of the 

 leading breeders and importers of Clydesdale horses in the United 

 States and Canada, the editor of Tub Journal has commenced the 

 compilation of a Clydesdale Register, which will be published as 

 soon as the work can be completed. It will contain an account 

 of the various breeds of cart or draft horses in Great Britain, the 

 origin of the Clydesdale breed, and, so far as can be ascertained, a 

 complete list of the Imported and prominent native-bred Clydesdale 

 horses and mares in the United States and Canada, with their 

 pedigrees." 



Only great pressure of work that accumulated shortly after- 

 ward prevented the carrying out of this sincere intent. 



