Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-15

uection with the Bureau Of Animal Indus
try, engaged in ascertsining the limits OF
the country affected by Texas fever in
order to prescribe such regulations ss
msy ne necessary for the live stock trade
between Texas and Wyoming. The gen.
tleman who carried the circular. said
that II was probable there were
ether prominent cattlemen in Texas
whose Cpinions were valuable and would
be glsdly received By DR.. Holcomoe o.
the agents Of the bureau, to whom 1t
would be well to say that George s. Will
Hanson, the Texas agent OF the bureau,
whose address for the present Is the Lin
dell hotel, St. Louis. would be the proper
person to address, and that he would
place any communications that might be
sent him on the subject where they would
do the most good:
ALBANY TEX, Nov {, 1881
DR.. \ A. Holcombs, W, oming Territorial Vet
erinSrian, Cheyenne, WJo:
DEAR SIR: We inclose herewith cur
circular In the matter OF quarantine lines,
and 6, to this country will further state,
IS nossof orr cattle interests are Ia
Montsns, We would be willing TO admit
cattle into our herds BY rail. into that
eighth meridian, In Texas, beginning at
on ssid line TO Missouri Pacific Railroad;
thence southwest along ssid rosd to q
junction with the southern Pacific, about
San Antonio, Tex; thence west with said
Souiherc Pacific to the Rio Grande River
in Val Verde county; thence with the Rio
Grande to Nav Mexico, making a book
OF IA counties of Northwest Texas.
This We consider absolutely safe and
would risk said lines for the following
reasons, viz:
l, It follows The western limit CT the
timbered belt.
2. And the western limit Of the sage
grass, and the eastern limit OF the mes
quite grass.
8. Il is the eastern limit Of the lime-
stone and rocky belt OF country with
limestone end gypsum water.
4. 1t will syersge in altitude from 1000
to 1000 feet above coast level.
8 Il is west of the tick and grst telt,
both OF which We think tend to create
fever.
We thirk cattle from Eastern Texas
much more fatal TO our cattle than South
western or Southern cattle, at Ieas. such
has been cur experience that We
have suffered much more fstal
results from eastern cattle than
from any other, and especially those
from Florida aud Arksasae, and an cattle
thSs grow N low caney aud swsmpy
countries, rs they STRIVE here from said
districts in al emsciRted condition, their
blood having been sspped by insects, and
they appeSr to have hal the yellow fever
instesd Of the (aliss) maze, Texas fever.
To take more liberal view Of the mat
Ter, we 1n't believe cattle from west Of
line on Rad River taking the Missouri
Pacific from Red River to the Rio Grsnde
at Laredo, Texas, would transmit
fever. There is no doubt In
our minds that there should
be some concession from cur Northern
neighbers on this point, as the lines are
too closely drawn as they now stand, and
are oene6t to the few fortunate ones
above said line IN Texas. and digadvant-
sge to our Northern neighbors in making
their purchases of cattle.
Hoping this will be OF use in furtheriog
the interests Ct all concerned in this
q ueshon, we are yours respectfully,
REYNOLDS BROS.
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Harrers Weekly thus describes the
method in vogue in Texas for extingulsh
ing prairie 6res: Who first invented this