No. 758.
Mr. Connery to Mr. Bayard.

No. 295.]

Sir: After receiving yours, No. 215, of November 22 last, I made inquiries as to the quarantine proclaimed against Mexican cattle by the governor of Arizona, and have learned little or nothing beyond what was set forth in the inclosure to your No. 215.

I am informed that there are and have been no diseased cattle in Sonora or Chihuahua. United States Consul Willard says that quarantine was based upon a possibility that cattle from New Mexico, where disease existed, should be driven across the frontier and be re-imported to Arizona as Mexican cattle.

Should I learn anything of further interest concerning this matter I will communicate it to you, but I presume the incident is ended, as your No. 224, of 7th ultimo, advises me that the quarantine has been lifted.

I am, etc.,

Thomas B. Connery.