The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-07-14
- 1Hf URUGUAY RIVER,
g,w Extract of Beef is Made.


The scriptures tell us of wise
F ,,ao. long ago, ate "the strength
D'' ox every day" We wondered
..gas done-until this wild expe.
P. ou the Uruguay river made the
0 clear. Leaving Montevideo
D ,rty in the morning we sailed up
' r,o de la Plata half days jour
% III northwesterly direction-the
Invisible on cloudy day and
,a-5Ns vet so boisterous that it is
,. believe they are not of "the
, wild and wide;' turned suddenly
,He RIO Uruguay and sailed due
several hours more, and toward
reached Fray Benitos, a little
su .ht Uruguayan shore of the
..g stream, which is here several
.A5ie and with a very rapid cur
IL, hurried rush to the sea.
.- passed more than hundred
. mouotonous and apparently
...tj country, with here and
Insignificant village whose in
,.r...s seem to be all dead or gone
.. about the only signs of life
.... ..V can dogs blinking laZily in
...., we were the more amazed to
... .: -.r Ioumey's end in this remote
..-t..r4 crowd Of ships and steamers,
..-.. ae dags of England, Germany,
-s.. ita Y and various South Amer
entries. anchored in front of
... .ua insignificant looking vii
..- In truth there is nothing of any
..>uGrucr about Fray Benitos ex-
.4-,.r. factories for the condensing
ra-,. uud they are a mile away, on a
Mg. oo.d promontory jutting out into
,.- g,tr But what an amount of
,r--s they do, apparently reaching
a avery part of the civilized world!
rs every body knows, the highly con-
-r.ej eparation called extract of
.rrf rIa, comes put up in little white
ars Vas invented by Baron Justus
-rre IN eminent German chemist,
Vas formerly manufactured in
atlp 1t is not generally known
.t British company purchased the
,s,s which Herr Leiblg founded
- taan half a century ago, and
-H>rtged the works from Germany
.jstaut | ruguay. II still bears the
u-nerp label, and above it pulling
Il. trademark. Some idea of the
Itde of the industry may be
!sl5 nom the fact that the company
.1M-o sell ten million jars of the ex
tit very year, and that ninety ship
o5a-ot It are annually sent from this
lytory to Europe. Each pound
y act is guaranteed to contain
- substance to prepare two hun
,rtons of soup. equal in strength
.t.' obtained by boiling fifty pounds
at for several hours. The fac
rounds are surrounded by a lofty
ia Nal, entered through an impos-
~ucnWay: ana within the walls are
- buildings, including machine
shops for tinsmiths, carpenters
d. -uIneers, all on a complete scale
'.4l necessary repairs can be made
spot. y tramWay runs from
FORKS down to q fine iron pier
"-- vessels are loaded with the ex-
aa.. Fhe Workmen's cottages are
rcd outside the walls, forming a
cradle village, as upwards of a
-td men are employed, who re-
tie spot with their wives and
.-a' Having come armed with
F t introduction from prominent
'"lo Il Montevideo, we were treat
"lH great consideration. First we
H INDICTED to the private office of
manager, who insisted upon serv-
- with champagne, biscuits" in
--'s. parlance, and cheese, from the
La. ONE sideboard that is topped by
Anus OF Baron Leibig. There is an
extensive library in the room, contain
Ivy '''ss IN German, Spanish, French
'-3 t1glish, comfortable laden with
L4-1sN and American periodicals,
l0"IlAg plants and singing birds in
~7 widows, and pet cats and dogs
'"- appear to be on chummy terms
''t one another and the world in gen.
r54
VIZ luSlneSS must be attended to.
al. While waiting for clerk to show
.S ''-l the works We gently drew out
"' GENIAL manager and ELECTED the
-A."ng facts: Work is carried on
Why seven months in a year, but dur
Wy mat time a thousand oxen are
'"-shtered every day, all good, sound
.-'p'aIS. none less than four years old.
'"'taly, during the little more than
"''y years the company has been es-
"olShed here, upwards of five million
.''',7 have been made into Extract"
l0e company own thousands of acres
VI me richest pasture-lands in the
'0'Ia' IN Uruguay and Argentina, and
'''aIedS of thousands of cattle. The
A''d't leaves this place packed in tin
''S+s. each case containing a hundred
pounds and the substance of fifteen
alHaIs, and is worth $3.50. 1t is sent
-E-L 10 AutWern uhare the com