The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-06
CALIFORNIA REBELS AT
FUMIGATION STATIONS
Asks That Nevada Stations
be Removed from that
State Immediately

Unless steps are taken Immediate
ly by the supervisors of Mono and
Alpine counties to abolish several
foot and mouth disease fumigation
stations which are being operated by
officials of the state of Nevada on
the California side of the border the
state highway commission threatens
to withdraw its crews and stop all
road maintenance work in the two
counties for the balance of the sum-
mer, according to T. E. Stanton, as
sistant state engineer at Sacramento.
This statement of California's most
recent protest against the Nevada
methods to prevent the spread of the
dread epizootic across the Sierras is
contained in an Associated Press
dispatch to the Reno Journal.
The pressure brought by the Cali
fornia highway commission drew
reiterations from Nevada quarantine
officials last night that there would
be no relaxation of fumigation
methods at roads leading into the
state.
"Officials of the California COM
mission" the dispatch reads, lob
ject to the presence of the Mono and
Alpine stations on the ground that
they are interfering with public
travel between California and Ne
vada; that if the interference with
travellers continues traffic over the
roads affected is apt to be reduced
to the point where further mainten-
ance work will be unnecessary, and
that the fumigation stations, al
though established as precaution
against the spread of the foot and
mouth disease, serve no useful or
beneficial purpose.
"The state department of agricul-
tture also frowns upon the fumiga-
ton stations and is preparing to
take action if the righway commits.
sion fails to have them removed"
DR.. N. E. Nielsen, veterinary field
agent in control of the Nevada fumi-
cation stations, went to Bridgeport
Wednesday to confer with the sup
ervisors of Mono county in regard
to the highway commission ulti-
matum.
Three fumigation stations are
operated in Alpine county, Nevada
maintains one at the Luther Pass
road between Meyers and Hope VAL
ley, while Alpine county maintains
the other two at the Carson and
Ebbetts pass.
In Mono county the Nevada sta
tions are at the foot of the Sherwin
grade and at Chalfant, nine miles
from Bishop on the road to Laws.
Inyo county also has established a
station at Little Lake, in the lower
end of the county, where similar fu-
migation methods as carried out by
Nevada are enforced.
In addition Nevada has established
posts on the Tioga and Sonora pass
es, in Mono county.
These stations were established on
California soil with the consent of
the counties involved. They are de-
clared to be in sympathy with Neva-
da, since their problems of the epi-
zootic spread are similar.
What action Nevada will take aft
er the California commissions move
probably will not be known until fol-
lowing the conference of DR.. Nielsen
with officials of Mono and Alpine
counties.
While California sends encouraging
reports of the stamping out of the
disease, Nevada officials are not so
optimistic.
DIR. Edward Records, state quaran-
tine officer, and DR.. Nielsen, his field
assistant, both summarize the situa-
ton in several California counties
as "rotten."
They base their statements on re-
ports of special agents closely in
touch with the California situation.
A wire from Commissioner Hecke
of the California department of agri-
culture requesting that Nevada name
the number of days that must elapse
after the last reported outbreak of
the disease before it considers the
county "clean" or free from the
disease brought a reply from Dr.
Records last night that Nevada was
not yet ready to make a decision.
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