RESULTS OF THE DRIVES. 



57 



List of California BaMit Drives — Coutinued. 



Locality. 



Kabbits 

 kiUed. 



Authority. 



Tulare County— Continued. 



Joneaa 



O.akdale 



Oakdalo (3 miles south) 



Pixlev 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Pixley (12 miles south) 



Pixl^ 



Do 



Do 



Apr. 9.1888 

 Mar. 18, 1888 

 Mar. 24, 1888= 

 Nov. 14, 1887 

 Dec. 3, 1887 

 March, 1888 

 June 1,1888 

 May — , 1889 

 Aug. 20, 1893 

 Nov.(7?),1894 

 Dec. 14,1894 



1,211 



3 2, 000 



1,000 



1,300 



i, 000-10, 000 



1,000 



300-400 



3,900 



Pixley (other drives'") 



Piano ( 18 miles west) 



Poplar 



Do 



Tipton (Lake View school) . 



Tipton 



Tokay (5 miles south Tulare) 



Tokay 



Traver(Settlers ditch, south- 

 west of town). 

 Traver 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do. 



Do , 



Do 



Do 



Do I 



Traver (10 miles southwest) . 



Traver 



Tulare (Mitchell Eanch, 6 



miles west). 

 Tulare (Birch Eanch, 7 miles 

 west). 



Tulare (7 miles south) 



Tulare 



Do 



Tulare ( 6 miles east) 



Tulare 



Tulare (Parkwood, 7 miles 



northwest) . 

 Tulare 



Do 



Do 



Tulare (MitcheU Kanch, 6 

 miles west). 



Visalia 



Visalia (north of town) 



Visalia (?) (McCann Ranch) . 

 Waukena 



Do. 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Jan. 20, 1895 

 Jan. 27, 1895 

 Jan. 28.1888 

 May 18,1889 

 Mai-. 10, 1888 

 Feb. 25, 1890 

 Apr. 7,1888' 



Feb. 26. 1889 

 Mar. 8,1889 

 Anr. — , 1891 



.-.^.do 



Mar. 6,1892^ 

 Apr. 8,1892 



Feb. - Apr.. 



1892. 

 Apr. 8,1893 

 Feb. 25, 1894 

 Mar. 4,1894 

 Apr. 7,1894 

 Mar. 31, 1895 

 Apr. 8,1895 

 Feb. 11,1888 



Feb. 15,1888? 



Feb. 20, 1888 

 Feb. 24, 1888 

 Mar. 2.1888 

 Mar. 4,1888 

 Uar. 9,1888 

 Mar. 24, 1888 



Feb. 9,1889 

 Feb. 25, 1889 

 Mar. 30, 1889 

 Feb. — , 1890 



Mar. 16, 1888 

 Mar. 18, 1888 

 Apr. 14, 1888 

 Feb. 11,1888 

 Feb. 2,1889 

 June 11, 1894 

 June 30. 1894 

 Nov. 16, 1894 



145 

 235 

 420 

 117 

 2,500 



1,000 

 1,200 



1,500 



500 



4,000 



4,000 



12,000 



2,500 

 2,000 

 1,500 

 2,000 

 370 

 300 

 85,000 



2,500 



1,000 

 2,300 

 3,000 

 2,232 

 2,000 

 2,200 



1, 400 

 350 

 200 



"Weekly Visalia Delta, Apr. 26, 1888. 

 Weekly Visalia Delta, Mar. 29, 1888. 



Do. 

 Tulare Register, Nov. 18, 1887. 

 Tulare Register, Dec. 9, 1887. 

 Samuel Shilling, Pixley. 

 John W. Harper, Pixley. 

 Samuel Shilling, Pixley. 

 John "W. Hai-per, Pixley. 

 Maj. C.J. Berry, Visalia. 

 John W. Harper, Pixley; G. J. Martin, 



Poplar— 290. 

 John W. Harper, Pixley. 

 William Thomson, Piano. 

 G.J.Martin, Poplar. 



Do. 

 W. J. Browning, Tipton. 

 Tulare Register, May 24, 1889. 

 Tulare Register, Mar. 16, 1888. 

 M. S. Featberstone. Goshen. 

 Weekly Visalia Delta, Apr. 12, 1888. 



Fresno Daily Republican, Mar. 2, 1889. 

 Fresno Daily Republican, Mar. 10, 1889. 

 Henry Lahann, Traver. 



Do. 

 Los Angeles Times, Mar. 7, 1892. 

 C. S. Greene, Overland Monthly, 2d ser., 



X5, July, 1892, pp. 49-58. 

 4 drives,' Henry Lahann, Traver. 



Henry Lahann, Traver. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Vi3alia(Tulare County) Times, Apr. 12, 1894. 

 S. S. Cederberg, Hanford. 

 Henry Lahann, Traver. 

 Weekly VisaUa Delta, Feb. 16, 1888. 



Photograph from D. K. Ztimwalt, Visalia. 



Tulare Register, Feb. 24, 1888. 

 Weekly Visalia Delta, Mar. 1, 1888. 

 Tulare Register, Mar. 2, 1888. 

 Tulare Register, Mar. 9, 1888. 

 Tulare Register, Mar. 16, 1888. 

 Tulare Register, Mar. 30, 1888. 



Tulare Register, Feb. 10, 1889. 

 Tulare Register, Feb. 28, 1889. 

 Tulare Register, Apr. 5, 1889. 

 M. S. Featberstone, Goshen. 



3, 300 Weekly Visalia Delta, Mar. 29, 1888. 

 1, 400 Do. 



400 Weeklv Visalia Delta, Apr. 19, 1888. 



5, 000 ' Weekly Visalia Delta, Feb. 16, 1888. 

 1, 067 Weeklv Visalia Delta, Feb, 7, 1889. 



500 I W. F. Glass, Waukena. 



500 I Do. 



150 Do. 



' 300-400 more probably killed before reaching the corral. 



^Another drive announced for March 29, 1888. 



' First public drive in California. 



* Several small shotgun drives took place about 1882 and 1883.— J. Ellis McLellan. 



s Another drive announced for April 15, 1888. 



^ Third drive of the season. Another was planned for March 13, 1892, but no report has been received. 



' Six drives in all took place during February, March, and April, in which 20,000 were killed. 



8 About 1,000 more estimated to have escaped. Another drive planned for March 18. 



ItESULTS OF THE DRIVES. 



Althougli it is practically impossible to give all the rabbit drives 

 which have occurred in California during the last eight years, still this 

 list of 155 drives, including the more important ones during the twenty 

 years from 1875 to 1895, should be sufficient to show the progress of 



