The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23
TO SEE UNCLE JERE.
Colorado and Wyoming Cattle
men En- Route.
LIVESTOCK SANITARY LINE.
A Tremendous Loss of Cattle Will Result Unless
Change is Made.
This Fact They will Lay Before Secretary
Rusk at Galveston and Endeayor to
Dissuade the Enforcement
of the Act.
LIVESTOCK SANITARY LINE.
Special to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette
DENVER. Col, April 1S.-A party com
posed of Gen. Warren of Wyoming and \.
a. Holcomb, veterinarian of the state;
Senator H. w. Teller, Judge S. D. Symes,
j. l.. Brush, state veterinarian of the SAM
tary board of Colorado, and J. C. Leary,
general stock agent of the Union Pacific
system, left Denver last night for the pur
pose of meeting Secretary RuSk of the ag
rlcultural department at Galveston III re
gard to the recent governmental change of
the Southern livestock sanitary line. Their
object will be to dissuade the enforcement
of this act, by which it is claimed that
loss OF over 81 100000 will result to the cat
tie growers OF Colorado, Wyoming and
Texas
Under the new order over Is, 600 head of
young cattle will have to be placed on the
Northern markets Immediately. The cat
tlemen say that such a step would result in
tremendous loss, as the order could never
be carried out. Therefore, assuming the
position that it is impracticable, they will
do all IN their power to resist the act of the
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.
Addresses to this effect will be listened to
by Secretary Rusk at Galveston, when the
presidential party arrives at that point
Western men will endeavOr TO persuade
''Uncle jerry to modify the measure so as
enable them 10 take in the cattle inside OF
the old limit
Should such relief not be secured the con-
tracts for the past three years will be
broken. The burden of such is bad faith
resting upon the shoulders of the growers.
When u representative of THE GAZETTE
called upon Secretary Metcalf Of the Colo
RADIO cattle growers association. that gen
tleman said that owing TO the present re
strictions passed by the cattle boards of
Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, no fever
had ever been developed. This is under
the rule that no cattle can be shipped from
less elevation than $500 feet. Carrying
out the rule Of this proviso they have found
ii perfectly safe to ship cattle within the
old line by
TRAIL OR RAIL.
Continuing, Mr.. Metcalf said that the
vast amount of good work performed by
DR.. Salmon while chief of the bureau of an
imal industry would amount to nothing, and
be utterly obliterated if the order stood.
Secretary Rusk had never visited the cat
tie section Of the West, and hence was to-
tally incapable of forming competent I'M
derstanding of this matter Theoretically
he possibly might be correct, but practically
never.
In conclusion Mr.. Metcalf said that the
order had caused the greatest surprise and
trepidation among cattle growers generally.
After six years OF successful shipping by
both trail and rail they could not but help
recognize the utmost stupidity in the
measure, especially when there was no
cause for it.
The general sentiment Of the cattle
growers of Colorado is decidedly against it,
and, yoicing the sentiment OF the cattle
growers of Wyoming, the Northwestern
Livestock Journal Of Cheyenne will say
editorially to-day:
-Four years experience in the handling of
these cattle by rail has satisfied our scien-
flo tow tlas, npt
whose money was invested that there was
absolutely no danger from disease to be
feared from the movement of herds from
this wide area. In consequence there has
been purchased since the beginning of this
year not less than fifty thousand cattle by
Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota and Montana
ranchmen in the district above mentioned
for shipment this spring to their various
Northern ranches to take the place of
beeves shipped out and be matured for fut-
ure marketing. Most of these have been
Tailed out, paid for and are now on the
trail TO various shipping points in North
west Texas and New Mexico. They are
being driven through pastures and over
ranges already fully stocked by sufferance.
and there is absolutely no place where they
can stop and find range. The purchases
were
MADE IN GOOD FAITH,
believing that the quarantine lines estab-
ished by law in the respective states,
could be respected as heretofore, and know
ing that no damage could result to any one.
Hence the order of Secretary Rusk, if en-
forced, not only means the loss of 81, 00O,-
900 but it means financial ruin to many of
the operators. The order says in plain
English that all of these 100000 young
steers must be shipped direct to the great
markets for immediate slaughter 1t is
possible that under some former ruling Of
the department on the general unwritten
law that the lapse of time purges all quar-
antined subjects. The secretary may per-
nit their removal northward after ninety
days quarantine at the fever line.
Should this be done and the cattle be
so held it would simply be
NINETY DAYS OF STARVATION
for the reason that there is no grazing
ground adjacent to the shipping points
Ninety days of fasting and purging would
mean arrival on the Northern ranges in the
autumn so poor that the first blast of Win
ter would send them to the bovine heaven
unannounced. The loss would be total. If
shipped to market for immediate slaughter
the freight charges would amount to more
than the proceeds of sales.