The argus., 1896-02-13
sNYDER's IMPORTATION.
Tick Infested Cattle Released From
Quarantine.

The Texas fever tick infested cat
tie brought in October, 1895, from
Mitchell county, Tex, to Bisbee,
Ariz., and there held in quarantine
by the live stock sanitary commits
sion of Arizona, were released on
the 23d of January, after being ex-
amined by the territorial veterinari-
an and found to be free from any
visible means of communicating
Texas fever.
Mr.. D. H. Snyder, the owner who
brought these cattle to the territory
in violation of the law governing
importations of cattle from Texas,
has had an experience in this line
that should be borne in mind by
every cattleman who contemplates
bringing cattle to Arizona, or for
that matter, moving cattle to any
state.
Mr.. Snyder some time ago ran the
quarantine blockade into the state
of Kansas and only succeeded in ex-
Treating himself at an expenditure
of about 81, 500 in costs and expenses
attaching to the experiment; not
satisfied with this, he tried parallel
violation of the quarantine law of
Arizona, with the result that his
cattle were seized and placed in the
hands of the sheriff of Cochise coun-
ty. A barbed wire enclosure three
fourths of mile wide and one and
one-half mile long, enclosing all the
ground the cattle had been driven
over, was built under the supervision
of the quarantine officer, at the ex-
pense of Mr.. Snyder.
The law directs the sanitary COM
mission to deliver quarantined cattle
to the owner on December l, provid-
ed he pays all costs and expenses
caused by the importation. On this
day the Arizona commission tender
ed the cattle to Mr.. Snyder with a
bill of S564 costs to that date, Mr..
Snyder notified the commission that
he would not pay the bill presented
until he could consult his Tucson
attorney; meantime expenses con-
tinued, grass got short in the
pasture, which is located in the
bleak open unprotected bottom be-
tween the Mule and San Jose noun
tains, the water never, in abundance,
grows less, so that the result sum-
med up on the morning of Jan. %,
was as follows: Costs and expenses
as per itemized bill presented, S61O.
The whole herd of cattle eighty
three head) then alive, in wretched
condition; so poor that they cannot
be moved fifteen miles to more
protected pasture until they are fed
with hay or grain into a better con-
dition; seven head of COWS and three
calves dead.
The herd imported originally con-
sisted of eighty-seven head of mixed
Hereford and Durham cattle; ten
died and six calves have been born
since they were placed in quarantine,
there being now alive thirty-six cows,
twenty-five bulls and nineteen suck
ling calves.
Because of the importation of
these Texas fever tick infected cat
tie to Arizona, the Bisbee cattle
loading pens were quarantined by
the U. S. government, and were only
released after being thoroughly dis
infected by the live stock sanitary
commission of Arizona under the
supervision of an agent of the
Bureau of Animal Industry. A
quarantine of the whole of Arizona
was only averted by the prompt ac-
tion of the Arizona commission, who
expressed themselves willing and did
comply with every demand of the
national authorities in charge of
quarantine regulations.
That the cattle interests of the
territory nearly received from this
importation, an injury from which
it never could have recovered, should
make it awake and alive to the neces-
sity of greater watchfulness in the
future. Cattlemen in their own in
terests should not bring dangerous