The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
THE QUARANTINE
Prompt Action Necessary for
 Protection of StOckmen.

|
 The Phenix Gazette of Friday, the
 oth inst. contained the following arti-
 cle anent the needed action for the pro- lection of Arizona stockmen. It has
 been considered by the Committee on
 Live Stock, in the council, that a new
 codif1cation of the live stock laws is : imperativeIy demanded
 There has been tdbulation among the stock. men of Arizona and that tribulatlop was com municated yesterday to the legislature. The 1 house lobby benches were early diled with the sturdy handl7-z of the horned cattle from all ! pans oftbe territory and the Committee on Live Stock had charge of the operations on the floor. 1 Over one bill the house, in committee of the
 whole, spent all the forenoon snd large part of the afternoon the bill then passing to the i council, to be Dy that body delayed until Mon
 day.
 1 The bill was one codifying and rearranging and amending the present stock laws of the ter rttory, particularly In reference to the powers and duties of the Territorial Live Stock Sanitary board. The bill which is No 6l, O. the house register, was introduced early by Chairman Speed, of the Live Stock committee and atonce went under pressure to the committee of the after second reading by title. It Was a rather formidable document, experiencing fffty-six | typewriter pages. An attempt was made to pass it without reading in full, Mr. Speed stating that it had been fully discussed and worked over the previous evening by not on his con- mittee, but by large number of members of the council and house. The fact was apparent that the reading would take hours, but Reppy and Goldberg objected, and the assistant chief clerk entered upon his task.
 The reason for the haste manifested was given by Representatives Speed and Bernard
 It appears few days ago report can from Santa Fe that the sanitary commission of New Mexico had ordered quarantine against Arizo- na, on account of a report from California that cattle from Tempe, Arizona, had been found at Los Angeles, California, to be infested with Tex as fever ticks. It had at first been thought that the quarantine had been made operative at once but lately, through telegrams received by Colin Cameron, chairman of the Arizona Live Stock Sanitary board. has been found that the prohibition does not go into effect till February 15, 1897.
 This New Mexican prohibition would of course be of decided annoyance to Arizona cat tie growers and feeders. but a greater danger even is foreshadOwed in other telegrams lately received by the sanitary board. They are to the effect that even Kansas, among other west cen- rral states, may also prohibit the importation of Arizona cattle This prohibition would practic- ally ruin all the cattle shippers of the territory
 The bill, in the main, only reaffirms the exist ing cattle regulations and laws, which, howey CT arc deemed contradictory. Under She new act tho tarr5toriaI cattle beard is definitely given Pe--.. quarantine against any mfeCced distIiCt and a perpetual quarantine is expressly placed upon the district officially declared by the secretary of agriculture to be permanently infected. his district IS embraced ill the re- zion south of line that includes all of Southern California, hence running along the southern border of Arizona and New Mexico and to a point on the Texas border within Prcsidio coun- ty. thence running diagonally across the Lone Star state to the northern boundary of Indian territory thence eastward on the same line to the Atlantic ocean. This line of course, is sub ject 10 change by the agricultural department but on the change the law of Arizona will &C., company it without further legislative action.
 Chairman Cameron, of the Live Stock commis sion, was one of the most earnest supporters Of the measure. Ut is essential to the very exist 6nc6 or the CaClemen OI ATlZOHdI Sdiu ue Even the United States Bureau of Animal In- dustry may act against us if it be not shown that Arizona is active in her efforts to keep outinfec- tion and in the enforcement of correct sanitary measures Texas 1everis not an Arizona dis ease, and is known here only among cattle i'm ported and then not for long. Those Tempe cattle referred to were really herd of Califor- mia cattle that had taken the fever ticks with them to Arizona, here spending only few months. have telegram from Don A. Sweet, the general traffic agent of the tlantc X Pacific at Albuquerque, stating that the ruling O. the New Mexico board will probably be modified so that instead of including all the region south of the thirty fifth parallel it will only include the counties of Maricopa, Pinal, Yuma and Pima. This will be just about as bad, however, for great proportion of the cattle shipped from the territory are first fattened on the alfalfa fields of MaricOpa county The act under discussion to-day will, am sure, satisfy all the boards out side of Arizona that we are in earnest, and will keep open all the markets we now have for our cattle"