Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-12
CATTLE QUARANTINE SERIOUS BLOW ID
 ARIZONA INDUSTRY
Foot and Mouth Disease Is Not Epidemic In This State and Drastic Measures of Commerce Uncalled For

TUCSON, March 11.-"A serious situation for Arizona has grown out of the recent drastic quarantine es- tablished by Texas and New Mexico against Arizona cattle. hay and feed, said w. D. Barnes. travelling passen- ger agent of the Southern Pacinc company today
 MT Barnes suggests that a call be issued for a joint meeting of Arl- zona, New Mexico and Texas cattle men at El Paso to take steus looksing to the lifting of this quarantine
 There is no foot and mouth dis ease in Arizona said Mir Barnes "A few isolated cases have been stamped out It is absurd for these states to quarantine against Arizona and it is a terrible blow to the cat tie industry with the spring round ups only three weeks off. The quaran- tine suspends indefinitely the ship ment of cattle. even those moving from districts where the disease has been unknown. The Texas Livestock
 Sanitary Board has placed the healthy cattle of Arizona under an unmerited suspicion As far as the herds in northern Sonora are con- cerned they are nearly ii not alto gether free from the disease and the situation there is not alarming as the action of the Texas Livestock Board would lead one to suppose"
 When in Fl Paso also recently. Mir. Barnes discussed the situation with officials of the Panhandle Cat. tle Association and is of the oniniou that uromut action on the mart of the livestock boards of Arizona and New Mexico will lead to reasonable mod ifcation of the drastic quarantine It is evident. he save. that the Tevas board has hecome neadlasslv alarmed A little wise discrimination on their part will he believes work to the advantage of all concerned and unless prompt action is taken the entire state will suffer an unnecessary loss of business
 J. M Bonstadt Richard Rradv both of Tucson and a committee from the Gila Valley consisting of w W Pace of Thatcher. W. Wilson of Saf- ford and Ph Freudenthal of Solo knoxville went to the convention at Fl Paso to take up the matter but they had no official status. Mir Barnes suggests a meeting at Fl Paso as the best means of obtaiuinQ quick modification of the quarantine
 Word has been received here that California has declared in effect a quarantine against Arizona cattle The report here is that the quarantine went into effect last night.
 It is impossible to state at this time how long the California 1uar- antine will be enforced. If it remains in effect very long it win cut the Arizona cattlemen off from the mar ket that will result from tlie provision- ing of the naval vessels at San Fran cisco and the increased demand for meat due to the enormous crowds that will attend the exDositions.
 One of the prominent Pima county cattlemen in speaking of the maran. tines against Arizona cattle said that it will not wor ksuch a serious hard, ship as mieht be sunposed as the num- ber of cattle in this state has been reduced by sales to out of the state buyers and this year Due to heavy rains the range will be in condition to feed many more cattle than is us- ual Cows and calves have been sold off as well as steers and the new mar- antine will ailo wthe herds to be built up again