DRIVES IN CALIFORNIA. 



List of California liahhit Drive 



55 



Locality. 



KabTaits 

 killed. 



Authority. 



Fremio County. 



Caruthers (6 miles west) 



Easton (12 miles southwest 

 of FresA)). 



Do 



Do 



Fresno (5 miles south) 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Fresno (10 miles south) 



Fresno 



Do 



Do 



Huron 



Wild Flower 



Do 



Kern County. 



Bakersfield 



Do 



Do 



Bakersfield (Houghton dairy) 

 Bakersfield (4 miles west)... 

 Bakersfield (Hosedale, 3 

 miles north). 



Do 



Do 



Bakersfield (5 miles south) .. 

 Bakersfield (6 miles south- 

 east). 



Do 



Do 



Delano 



Delano (10 miles southwest) . . 



Delano (9 miles west) 



Delano 



Haggin & Carr Ranch, Kern 



Island. 

 Mount View dairy '" (13 miles 

 southwest of Bakersfield). 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Mount View dairy'" (13 miles 

 southwest of Bakersfield) 

 (shotgun drive). 

 Mount View dairy'" (13 miles 

 southwest of Bakersfield). 

 Mount View dairy i" (13 miles 

 southwest of Bakersfield) 

 (shotgun drive). 



Do 



Do 



Feb. 22, 1892 

 Feb. 13,1892 



Mar. 12, 

 Mar. 18, 

 Mar. 16, 



Mar. 24, 

 Apr. 12, 

 Apr. 25, 

 Mar. 23, 

 Mar. 13, 

 Mar. 18, 

 May 5, 

 July 12, 

 Mar. 14, 

 Mar. 1, 



Jan. 2, 1888 



Jan. 10,1888 

 Feb. 9, 1888 

 Oct. 1, 1888 

 Jan. 20,1889 

 May 3,1891 



May 16, 1891 

 June 6,1891 

 June 10, 1894 

 Dec. 9, 1894 



Dec. 16,1894 

 Dec. 23, 1894 

 Feb. 4, 1888 

 Feb. 19, 1888 

 July 13, 1888 

 Nov. 14-Dec. 

 31, 1894. 



1875 



Jan. 15,1888 



Jan. 23, 1888 

 Jan. 30,1888 

 Feb. 5,1888 

 Feb. 12,1888 



Feb. 19,1888 

 Feb. 2!^, 1888 



Mar. 

 Mar. 



n,i26> 



796^ 

 '5,075> 

 500^ 

 3,500 

 8 1,600 

 200 

 1,500 



2,500 



3,500 



1, 000 



350 



500 



200 



5,500 



5,500 



10, 000 



'25,000 



1,200 



"3,500 



2,000 



5,000 



5,000 



500 



27,000 

 1,000 



1,946 

 4,428 



Alvah A. Eaton. 



Weekly Fresno Expositor, Feb. 17, 1892; 



Forest and Stream, XXXVIII, Mar. 3, 



1892, 197—15,000. 

 Photograph by F. M. Stiffler, Oakland. 

 Weekly Fresno Expositor, Mar. 22, 1892. 

 Fresno Daily Republican, Mar. 17, 1888; 



Expositor, "Mar. 22. 

 Fresno Daily Republican, Mar 25, 1888. 

 Fresno Daily Republican, Apr. 13, 1888. 

 Fresno Expositor, Apr. 25, 1888. 

 Fresno Daily Republican, Mar_24, : 

 Photograph bv E. R. Higgiiis. 

 Chicago Daily News, May 10, 1893. 

 Daily Evening Expositor, May 5, 1804. 

 TulareCountvTimes(Visalia), Julyie, ] 

 Weekly Visalia Delta, Mar. 29, 1888. 

 Scientific Am., LXI, Nov. 9, 1889, p. 295 



San Francisco Mining and Sci. Press, Jan. 

 28, 1888, p. 51. 



Do. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, Feb. 16, 1888. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, Oct. 8, 1888. 

 Weekly Kern Countv Echo, Jan. 24, 1889. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, May 7, 1891. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, May 21, 1891. 

 Gus. Kratzmer, Bakersfield. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, June 14, 1894. 

 C. A. Nelson, Bakersfield. 



B. L. Brundage, Bakersfield. 



Do. 

 Delano Courier, Feb. 10, 1888. 

 Delano Courier, Feb. 24, 1888. 

 Delano Courier, July 20, 1888. 

 Hill & Conrad, Delano. 



Geo. W. Stewart, editor Visalia Delta. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, Jan. 19, 1888. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, Jan. 26, 1888. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, Feb. 2, 1888. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, Feb. 9, 1888 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, Feb. 16, 1888. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, Feb. 23, 1888. 

 Weekly Kern County Echo, Mar. 2, 1888. 



Weekly Kern County Echo, Mar. 8, 1888. 

 Shooting and Fishing, V, Mar. 28, 1889, 13. 



> Actual count— 7,000 in the corral, 7,000 dead outside. 



* The great G. A. R. drive, which took place between Easton .ind Oleander; the largestdrive on record. 

 The Weekly Fresno Expositor of March 16, 1892, places the number of rabbits killed at 25,000. 



' Badly managed ; about 20,000 rabbits rounded up ; all but 2,000 escaped. 



*Two drives same day; 9,723 by actual count; about 4,000 hauled away before count began; 1,000 

 taken alive for Merced coursing match. 



*Mr. M. S. Featherstone, of Goshen, states that only 8,000 were killed by actual count. 



s 2.500 estimated to have been killed altogether. 



'500 estimated to have been killed outside the corral. 



^Private drive, covering 16 sections. 



■Thirteen private drives. About two-thirds of these rabbits were shipped to the San Francisco 

 market. 



•"Returns for these drives vary. Messrs. Nelson & Bailey have circulated a clipping from the Kern 

 County Echo with their photograph of the drive of March 4, 1888, which gives the following figures: 

 January 2, 2,500; January 8, 6,000; January 15, 5,500; January 23, 2,000; January 30, 4,000; February 

 5, 5,000; February 9, 500; February 12, 4,500; February 19, 7,000; February 23, 1,500; March 4, 2,000. 



"3,000, according to N E. White in American Field, XXX, November 3, 1888, 410-411. 



'2 Actual count, first drive, 5,500; second, 1,500. 



