and maintenance of the fence.

Crawford supervised four sub-inspectors, each responsible for about 500 mi of fence, and 25 boundary riders, who regularly patrolled 100 mi sections of fence. Due to frontier violence in the north of the state, a 300 mi section of No. 1 Fence was patrolled by riders who traveled in pairs.

Crawford also was responsible for eliminating rabbits that had breached the fence. In the first year following the fence's completion, rabbit colonies were found and all members killed at several locations inside

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