Arizona republican., 1898-12-12
SOME DAMAGING EVIDENCE
Reliable Texas Authorities Say DEp-
 ping is a Failure.

The Texas Stock and Farm Journal
 is one Of the newspapers that has nev1r felt Justified in advising it's readers to dip their cattle in the solution required ny the general government. The
 Journal has watched the experime nts very closely, and has hoped that they
 would prove successful. Recent de- VeloPmeInts, however, have p0Yen to it's satisfaction that the solution now bs-
 ing used, while effective in killing the
 ticks, also cften kills the cattle, and in
 nearly every instance, at lsas.. d3es them considerable damage, even the best quality Of cattle. l. bass it's con
 clUsions On the fclIo1ing ccrresDcn-
 dsnce:
 MT. Jchn Scharbaucr, a prominent
 and reliable cattIeman Cf FCrt Worth,
 who owns several large ranches in the vicinity Of Midland, in a let CT to the
 Journal, says: q see by the papers ] that they are trying to make it app ar i that the cattle that were dipped for me
 were a very unhealthy lCi, and the5 the dipping was a success. My cattle were
 Q good, smooth, healthy lct, and in
 good flesh when they were dipped. There were no head Of theIn; g have
 died tc date, and I am liable to Icsa several mCrc. They have bcen in good pasture, with plenty ce grass and water. My experience Iea6s me to be-
 lieve that cattle dipping is a reat fail
 ure''
 A short time ago Messrs. Hagan & O'COnnOr cf Guthrie, Okla, bought 570
 4-ycar-cld stee.s frcm r. c. Sugg & Bro. Of Sugden, I. T., for faedsrs. These were an exceptionally fine lot Of c1t@le. Two cars, average Of the lot after be- ing shipped to Fort Worth, weighed an average of 1,170 pounds. These cattle Wee dipped about 9 week or ten days ago at the Fort Worth : ocll yards. Mir. Hag2n, enc Of the owners, who is prominent citizen Of Guthrie, Okla, in a letter to the editor Of the Jorcna', dated November 26, says:
 'tThe Sugg cattle arrived Sunday from 2 to i o'clock. They wore un- icadcd, driven across the creek so they could get water, and driven half a mile to the oil mill feed lots, wsere they were fed in the boxes and plenty of good straw. It rafncd that n;git and turned cold. Tho cattle drcw up and got as stiff as pOkers. Out Of tho 570 Head I dcn't think there were twenty but what were badly anec.e1. They ! moved around like they were found- erGd. Mr O'CCnnor worked for two days and took enc seer at a time and drove them up to thc water tank. We ! nursed them ike babies. They sem ed to be affected across the kidneys. At this writing We have lest four ste -rs | outright; about twenty arc down, and . the whole bunch is very much afc, ted | and damaged.
 We consider that we are dan2g- d i fully $2000 We would net dip any | more cattle if we were raid 8 a head fer doing So. MT. O'Connor is in hopes i that the mortality has about ceas 3d. but we feel very uneasy and worried.
 MT. Mcfarland di1 p-d 450 iDedal Fst Hcldsnville, l. T. His cattle were af- fected the same way. He dr fed them along about four milcsa day, and he g t here with 450 head Of lams ones His cattle are in very bad shape. but his mortality has not besn large. I was talking to him yesterday, and he sa d that $5 a had would bc nc induc m ont to try the experiment again.
 ''Mr Mcfarland last week sid to Simms 6 Shaeffer Of Chand CT. Okla, $50 calves Thcae c3lvos were dipp d at Wcwcka, !. T. News has rcachCd | here that the day aftsr these cattle were dipped twcnty-cight of ttcn died.
 "A mover was cCming to Oklahoma with twclvs cattle. The inspect tor made him dip at Wewcka, and in two days his entire bunch of twelve hcaj were dead.
 ''NIr. Mcfarland and I went to the governor and told him of the disaster Of this dipping, and he seemed very much distressed, and remarked. This IS worse than Texas fever 1 begged him to go over to the cil mill yards and see the eff cts of his proclam alton. He said lle was going tc call the qHaran- tine board together or the 1st, and hs thought they would haye an Cpsn sea- zop frcm that time on; that ha did net wish to des++f95y7 pr65bt$-T. raa-k9 hal been very much harraesed during the 1ast five days with complaints all over he territory about cattle dying, and ,e he'd sent Professor Lewis to inyesti- gate several punches. 1