Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-06
To Droyers of Southern Cattle.

The following circular is being print
ed in this Office this week, and will be
posted along the trails and in other pub
lie places, and should be needed by
drovers and taken in the spirit in which
! it is given
"Drovers of Texas and Arkansas and
other southern cattle are respectfully
requested not TO drive along the state
line or through enclosures where win
tered or domestic cattle are held, but
are requested to follow the trails that
have been provided by our association
for their especial accommodation. In
addition to these trails, ample quaran-
tine or grazing grounds have been set
apart for the common use and benefit of
all drovers, to which they are not only
welcomed, but invited.
In some localities organizations have
been, or are being, formed for the pro-
lection of domestic cattle and their res
pective ranges from contact with
through herds.
We therefore council our droTer
friends TO be very cautious and avoid
all infringements upon the rights of
their fellow steckmen, thereby avoiding
conflicts and losses to drovers and
ranchmen.
The stockmen of the state and Terri
tory want the drovers to come to this
market, and will give them all the assis-
tance in their power to make the drive
profitable and pleasant and they will
buy their cattle at good strong price
if the droTers will give them chance to
mature their beeveS on their own farms
and ranges. But if the drover persists
in driving his cattle through the ranges
of the local ranchmen and farmers, it
will be rather difficult for him to raise
money to pay for very large herd of
cattle.
1t is as much to the advantage of the
droTer as to the ranchman that these
southern cattle do not come in contact
with our northern cattle. 1t is almost
certain death to the northern cattle TO
cross the trail of the southern herds.
and these trails should not be made
with impunity inside of fenced pastures.
when there are trails prepared for them
to travel over, with all the conveniences
that may be found in the pastures. The
plain English of the matter is that it
will not be safe to drive cattle across
the state line nor through the pastures
of ranchmen.-Caldwell Journal.
In another part of the same issue, the
Caldwell Journal says this about the
disease-bearing cattle in question
Arkansas cattle or OK teams from
that state will have difficult time of
passing from this point west along the
state line if the ranchmen and farmers
of Harper and Barber counties protect
their property as they have legal right
to do. They can, however, avoid all
trouble by going down the Chisholm
trail to the Cantonment road to the Red
Fork, and thence west across the west
ern trail and up to Dodge City. The
farmers and stockmen of the counties
named have decided that no Arkansas
cattle shall cross the state line contrary
to law this season. and as they are on
the look out for that kind of Stock it
win be very difficult for any one to pass
over the line with his cattle. The BOYD
case in Barber county last year has Civ
en- them all warning that it is not safe
to leave it to the judgment Of the drover
as to whether or not his cattle would
impart the disease known as Texas few
er, and will this season see that no cat
tie are allowed to be exposed to the raw
ages of that disease. If the droyer will
consider the fact that some one else be-
sides himself has rights that should be
respected, he viii not blame them for
caring for the safety Of their stock. and
will not give them the alternative of
destroying his herd or having their own
destroyed To be explicit in the matter.
Texas or Arkansas cattle will be. killed
by the farmers and ranchnnen inst as
soon as they cross the state line Into
Harper, Barber or Comanche counties.
This Is, In the minds OF the farmers.
their only hope of saving what few cat
tie they have about their homes.