| Show i I tw by Lt1a Tho eooallod quarantine of Astern Cttrt southern cattlo nt Cheyenne has been a j great annoyance as well as expense to I I Utah cattle owners and shippers Utah cattle men have been so in the habit of minding their own business and never thinking of trying to interfere with the peace and prosperity of others that the impositions to which they have been subjected sub-jected at Cheyenne were entirely new and unexpected on their part They have imported and exported thousands and thousands of cattle and have never had any cases of Texas cattle fever or pleuro pneumonia among their cattle They are i practical men and there is not a leading dealer among them who would hesitate for one moment to destroy any number of their cattle if they thought they were afflicted with any contagious disease Such being the case it is needless to say they would first of all avoid purchasing cattle in any district where there was the least suspicion of any contagious disease Knowing this a DEMOCUAI reporter made inquiry of Mr G C St John oi Lay Col with regard to the quarantine of cattle in Colorado Mr St John who is largely in the cattle business there says that the cattle men of Colorado are buffering far more from the quarantine than from anything else There is no Texas cattle fever there nor any I pleuropneumonia Mr St John says hew he-w as compelled to come to Utah to purchase pur-chase cattle as he could not get Texas and southern cattle passed lIe thinks Texas fever and pleuropneumonia were introduced theoretically for the benefit of Colorado cattle and tO hut out competition competi-tion from other States and Territories and for this reason the quarantine was established lIe says it is Stale protection pro-tection under the guise of a sanitary measure and is clearly an infraction of the interState commerce clause of the Constitution We asked him if he had I found any diseased cattle in Utah and he said no but that they would be found to be diseased in Colorado the moment Utah cattle entered the market for Colorado Colo-rado cattle Mr St John thinks our Utah cattle of good size and quality anc that they are healthy and will remain so if they do not catch tho Wjoming and I Colorado quarantine disease |
