TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
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Tvld <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pioneers<br />
<strong>of</strong> Tennessee, in 1896, <strong>by</strong> President Cleveland, to <strong>the</strong> position <strong>of</strong> Veterinary<br />
Inspector <strong>of</strong> animals and meats intended for <strong>the</strong> export and<br />
interstate trade at San Francisco.<br />
In 1897 he was made Inspector in charge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong> Animal<br />
Industry <strong>of</strong>fices at Portland, Oregon, which was later made to include<br />
<strong>Washington</strong>.<br />
He was designated to represent <strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong> Animal Industry in<br />
cooperation with <strong>the</strong> veterinary service <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Canadian Northwest<br />
Mounted Police, in <strong>the</strong> control <strong>of</strong> diseases among transport animals<br />
in <strong>the</strong> Yukon and Alaska. He was assig'ned to work with Dr. Thomas<br />
Bowhill, who represented <strong>the</strong> Dominion government in investigating<br />
cattle diseases along <strong>the</strong> international boundary, which resembled <strong>the</strong><br />
conditions previously found <strong>by</strong> Dr. Bowhill in New Zealand and Australia.<br />
Dr. Hutchinson was also assigned to make final <strong>the</strong> clinical report<br />
on <strong>the</strong> finishing examinations in <strong>the</strong> Anaconda Smelter smoke cases.<br />
In relating some <strong>of</strong> his interesting experiences, Dr. Hutchinson recalled:<br />
"I was appointed during <strong>the</strong> Cleveland administration to go<br />
out to San Francisco, just at <strong>the</strong> time when Germany, France and <strong>the</strong><br />
Scandinavian countries were placing an embargo on our meat products,<br />
basing <strong>the</strong>ir action upon <strong>the</strong> insufficiency <strong>of</strong> our meat inspection<br />
force, as compared to <strong>the</strong> very excellent inspection service <strong>the</strong>y had<br />
set up in all those countries, with what <strong>the</strong>y claimed as a more experienced<br />
and better educated personneL<br />
In point <strong>of</strong> fact, <strong>the</strong> United <strong>State</strong>s had veterinarians in <strong>the</strong> meat<br />
inspection service set up under <strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong> Animal Industry, who<br />
were just as well educated and versed in this line as were <strong>the</strong> veterinarians<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> foreign countries.<br />
"I was among <strong>the</strong> very first men to be engaged in that work, and<br />
after I had stayed about six months in San Francisco, working under<br />
<strong>the</strong> direction <strong>of</strong> George S. Backer, I was sent up to Portland to establish<br />
<strong>the</strong> meat inspection for <strong>the</strong> Union Meat Company, <strong>the</strong>n seeking<br />
to get in on <strong>the</strong> export trade. From <strong>the</strong>re <strong>the</strong> <strong>Washington</strong> service, under<br />
my direction, was established in <strong>the</strong> large packing houses <strong>of</strong> Ta<br />
?oma, <strong>the</strong> Frye-Bruhn Company <strong>of</strong> Seattle, and <strong>the</strong> Carstens Packmg<br />
Company.<br />
In 1904 <strong>the</strong> government <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Yukon Territory (Canadian) asked<br />
<strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong> Animal Industry at <strong>Washington</strong> to assign a veterinarian<br />
to Dawson City, to work in conjunction with all <strong>the</strong> veterinarians<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Northwest Mounted Police, to investigate <strong>the</strong> spread <strong>of</strong> diseases<br />
among <strong>the</strong> transport animals, working on <strong>the</strong> rivers when frozen over,<br />
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