The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-02-06
The Goepni,su Sun.
SNYDER'S IMPORTATION.
Tick Infested Cattle Released From
Quarantine.


The Texas fever tick infested cattle
broughtin October. 1895. from Mitchell
county. Texas, to Bisbee. Arizona, and
there held In quarantine by the live
stock sanitary commission Of Arizona,
were released on the Esd of January,
after being examined by the territorial
veterinarian and found free from any
visible means of communicating Texas
fever.
D. n. Snyder. the owner who brought
these cattle to the Territory in viola.
tion Of the law governing impor,a,ions
of cattle from Texas. has had an ex.
perience IN this line that should be-
borne in mind by every cattle man
who contemplates bringing cattle Ia
Arizona. or for that matter, moving
cattle to any State.
Mr.. Snyder some time ago ran the
quarantine blockade into the State oi
Kansas and only succeeded In extricat.
Ing himself at an expenditure offs 500
In costs and expenses attaching to the
experiment. Not satisfied with this,
he tried a parallel violation Of the
quarantine law of Arizona, with the
result that his cattle were seized.
placed in the hands of the sheriff of
Cochise county. barbed wire enclo.
sure ,hree.fourlhs of mile wide and
one and a half miles long. enclosing all
the ground the cattle had been driven
over, was built under the supervision
OF the quarantine officer at Mr.. Sny.
der's expense.
The law directs the sanitary CONF
mission to deliver quarantined cattle
to the owner on December LIST. pro.
vided NJ pays all costs and expenses
caused by the importation. On this
day the Arizona commission rendered
the cattle to Mr.. Snyder with Il bill Of
1854 costs to that date. Mr.. Snyder
notified the commission that he would
not pay the bill presented until he
could consult his Tucson attorney
Mean time expenses continued. grass
got short in the pasture. which is To-
Gated In the bleak, open, unprotected
bottom between the Mule and San
Jose mountains. The water. never IN
abundance, grows less. so that the
result, summed up IN the morning of
January lSd was rs follows: Costs aud
expenses as per itemized bill pre-
sented. $6l0. The whole herd of
cattle. eighty-three head, then alive.
IN wreichrd condition. So poor that
they cannot be moved fifteen miles to
a more protected pasture until they
are fed with hay or grain into better
condition; seven. head of cows and
three calves dead.
The herd originally imported 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.nne cows.
twenty-five bulls and nineteen sucking
calves.
Because Of the importation to Ari.
coma of these Texas fever tick infested
cattle the Bisbee cattle-loading pens
were quarantiued by the United States
Government and were only released
after being thoroughly disinfected by
the live stock sanitary commission of
Arizona under the supervision Of an
agent of the bureau of animal indus
try. A quarantine Of the whole Of
Arizona was only aveited by the promp,
action of the Arizona commission, who
expressed themselves willing and did
comply with every demand of the ma.
tional authorities 10 charge Of quarau.
tine regulations.
That the cattle interests of the Ter.
ritory nearly received from this i'm.
portation an injury from which /,
never could have recovered should
make it awake and alive to the neces-
sity of greater watchfulness In the fu-
ture. Cattlemen IN their own interes,
should not bring dangerous disease
here. The live stock sanitary com.
mission should see that our most ex.
cellent laws are not violated with i'm
pnniiy. We are almost certain that |,
was mistaken judgment of@he commits
sion in the leniency shown Mr.. Snyder.
An intelligent man who wilfully vio-
lates the quarantine laws. endangering
so great an industry, one so important
to Arizona's prosperity. should be
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