The next importation of practical importance, although it was claimed
that nine head were received about 1861, by one Stiles, was made by
Israel S. Diehl, a former U.S. consul and C. S. Brown, of Newark, New
Jersey, about 1868. Mr. Diehl was commissioned by the United States
government to investigate the industry in Turkey, and he secured a lot
of Angoras, variously estimated at from one hundred to one hundred and
sixty head. Mr. C. P. Bailey furnished the money for the transportation
of these goats to California. He says, "Some were fairly good and some
were only ordinary. They were of medium size, and with the exception of
the neck, tolerably well covered with fleece, which however had a
scattering of kemp throughout. They were conceded to be the best brought
to California up to that time." Some of these bucks had been tampered
with and were sterile.