I got so I thought it was
pretty good myself.
But alas. You should read what came out in the paper next
morning. . . I was quoted to have said Uruguay had a most forward
and socially stable government, or something like that.
LIVESTOCK--REAL AND BRONZED
Our friend, the manager of the company, proved to be most
capable. . . We drove over the city after picking up his wife. .
. Montevideo is much cleaner and more mechanized than is Rio or
Santos, or so it seemed to me. The docks were less littered up.
Perhaps people and business moved faster and more orderly. . .
Saw a world of sheep. Sheep is a big industry in Uruguay--perhaps
its biggest. There were also pen after pen of cattle. I never saw
a steer there as good as Oscar Clodfelter's worst one.
If I have worked kilos into pounds and pesos into dollars
correctly, prime steers are selling on the hoof there at the
market at five to six cents per pound, our money. But always
remember they're probably grassers and not the way the Hazlett
boys or Jude Grimes corn feeds them.
Another thing in Montevideo. I've seen a real piece of art, a
bronze piece of statuary "of heroic size." It sets in a park. It
is called La Carreta, and depicts an early settler on a horse
beside a two-wheeled pioneer cart with one big wheel sunk in the
mud plumb down to the axle pulled by one bull and seven steers or
oxen all yoked together, and with a spare ox tied on behind.
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