The oasis., 1898-04-02
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Saturday, April ?, 1898. :
Mexican Hides

tagged by the inspectors or the i've
 stock sanitary board before they could
 be received for shipment by any rail
 road, the Mexican hides have caused
 some inconvenience and annoyance, on
 account of those handling such hides claiming they were exempt from the provisions of the Arizona law by req son of their being foreign.
 Numerous questions have arisen on this point and in order to settle the matter the live stock sanitary board communicated with the treasury de- partment at Washington certain recommendations. Assistant Secreta- ry Howell has, in reply to the recom- mendation there made, written t3 the collectors of customs along the Mex ican border, as follows, under date of the 26th ultimo.
 Tt is represented to this depart ment by the chairman of the livestock sanitary board of Arizona that said board is charged, among other duties, with the inspection and tagging of all domestic hides taken from animals by butchers and ranchmen and others in the territory of Arizona; that the law places penalty upon the different railroads for transporting untagged hides, and that, enforcing the law, the
 inspectors of the law are embarrassed in their work by finding large num-
 bers of untagged hides in the posses sion of dealers and others along the Mexican border, and therefore exempt from inspection. The chairman states that all of the inspectors of the board are furnished with metal tags similar to those used by the various roads in sealing cars, for the purpose above stated, the tags being numbered con- secutively and attached to the hides and sealed thereon, and he suggests as a remedy for the evil complained of, that officers of the customs along the Mexicon border be furnished by the board with a supply of tags of a style and color different from, those used on the American hides, for attaching on all hides imported from Mexico. The chairman adds that it is but the work ofan instant to attach these tags; that they will remain on the hides un- til they leave the territory; that they will be the means of identifying ali imported hides, and may possibly bring to light the cases of smuggling as hides found untagged would be sub ject to investigation.
 "The department favors the plan suggested by the chairman and upon reports received from the Electors along the frontier, it appears that the plan is considered feasible and good | one and unattended by any expense to the government. You are, there fore, instructed to make acquisitions upon the chairman of said board for supply of such tags, and upon re- ceipt thereof to furnish the same to the inspectors of your district with directions to attach them to all hides imported into your district from Mex ico"
 : This it will be seen displaces any doubt there may be in the premises, only the expense of providing the seals | and the tags will fall on Arizona.
 A question may arise here as to hides which were removed from ami ! mals across the line in Utah, Colorado New Mexico, Nevada, or California, and which were disposed of to Arizona who would haul them by | wagon to some Arizona railroad sta tion for shipment They would be in forcfafa bidac or in fho carna cafarorv