Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-16

into these corrals, so at a time. and sup.
piled with water but no food. Skirling
the lane is a narrow platform about
the height Of the animars horns lead
ing down TO smaller paddock, sur
rounded by a similar elevated pathway,
with bridge over the opening into the
galpOn, which is further closed by
movable beam Below r1le bridge Is a
low, square iron truck on tramway
which runs into another galpon, branch
ing into two parallel lines so that one
truck may pass another. This Is what
happens A yilainous looking Guacho,
who evidently finds pleasure In his
work, mounts the stockade and takes
unerring aim with his lasso at the big
gest and most powerful OK. one end
OF the lasso Is attached to a winch,
turned by steam, which haus the as
tonlshed beast, slipping and stumbling
and pushing aside the other animals IN
his way, TIL his head touches the fatal
beam upon which stands a matador, or
killer, who holds short, broadbaded,
sharp pointed knife, With one blow OF
this weapon. delivered cloge behind the
horns he sewers the spinal cord. and
the huge victim drops like a lump Of
lead without n struggle, upon the iron
truck In waiting TIE lassO IS then
dsengaged, and the truck, propelled 10y
three men IL pushed into an adjoining
shed, where arc a hundred men, silent
but busy as bees, SHINING and cutting
up carcasses. Following the truck, You
observe that one side of the great
shed Is lined with poles for hanging
meat upon and the other side Is occu-
pied by nat slightly elevated, stone
paved place. upon which The dead cot
tie are laid It reminds one Of the
marble slab az the morgue, and the
! sight OF the long building splashed
| with blood from end To end. the pave
ments running rivers OF ri0tted blood
| ana SO corpses being dismembered at
| once by half-naked blood despatched
men, spoils ones appetite for meat for
many and many a day.
READY TO BE SKINNED.
Connnlng your attention TO one es-
| pecial carcass, you sec II hauled on to
the stone paved platform by means of
lasso attached TO horse. and placed
In position for the skinner The latter
| Individual wild Uruguayan, spat-
tered with gore from top to
| toe Ike an Aztec priest at
| sacrifice 49, begins operations By
| cutting the animals throat letting
| loose another river Of blood, so hot that
II seems TO steam as It seeks the gut
| ter, and emitting a sickenlng odor Of
! freshness. The hide Is then torn off
| with marvellous rapidity and-horrible
| Ia relate-the great carcass moves and
struggles and faint below Is heard
| No doubt the severance OF the spinal
cord has rendered the poor beast dead
10 all sense Of feeling, but muscular ac-
| ton remains, However, In less time
| than II takes to tell u, he is divided
| into a hundred pieces. and with light
| ning-like rapidity the parts are sailed
| and carried of in different directions
! While yet warm aud qulvering, every
| particle Of meat Is cut from the bones.
| hung upon the poles that line the other
| side Of the building. and the skin put
| to soak In a bath Of brine The mnut-
| est scrap is preserved and utilized I'm
| some shape-eyen TO the entralls, hoofs
horns and skull. The bones are ground
| into powder and mixed with what re-
| mains Of the meat after the Juice has
been taken out for the extract" and
together with the blood and hide-trm-
| mings, are made into a fertilizer for
the soil which is said to be better than
| guano.
SWIFT AND DEXTEROUs.
| To return to our skinner His knife
| is sharp as razor and he uses II with
| incredible swlftuess and deXtcrity. II
| requires Just eight minutes to skin an
| OK and cut II into "a hundred pieces
| and we are Informed that It can be done
| I'm five minutes a sklnnors salary IS
| fifteen cents the carcass hut n IN any
| skim he makes the smallest hole he for
| feits payment for the animal Forty
| animals Is an average days work,
| though the more expert skin fifty and
| upwards Tho men are not allowed 20
| talk during working hours the strict
est order Is preserved and everything
| Is kept as clean as the CORY business
| VIII allow, Soon as 10 Is cool, the meat
| on the poles h cleared Of every particle
| Of fat and put TO stow In large oblong
| caldrons, In which The water is kept
| below the boiling point, for Il is
| popularity Of the mixture that II con-
| tans no matter nos soluble in cold wa
| ter A thin coup Is thus obtained,
| which Is carefully skinned and
| strained, 80 that the smallest trace Of
| grease Is removed Then the soup IL
| subjected TO q series az corporations,
! growing thicker and thicker TN It fin
| ally acquires about The color and con-
sstency OF sorghum, and when cool be-
comes Jelly and Is ready for use.
II Is a singular circumstance that the
extract commands a higher price
| right here IN Uruguay. whore It is made
| and raised fo TO speak. than IN for
eign markets or II would he singular
| dld we not remember that Quinine costs
| three times as much In Peru and Boz
| livia whore II grows as elsewhere
| owing 10 cXorbitant duties on the
manufactured product; that the dear.
est place In the world TO buy pearls Is
az the pearl fisheries opals at the opal
mines, onyx AT the onyx quarrlcs, seal
skins at the headquarters Of the fun.
seal company and 80 on 10 the end Of
the chapter with most desirable nrti-
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