Ea. “La California” - 1890 Day-Book | Page last modified: |
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This is the second diary that survived the years. Sadly, 1889 is missing. Most of this diary was written by John E. Bz., with help by Herman Bz. and others.
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1889: The first leg of the railroad, from Cañada de Gómez to Las Rosas, was opened on Septiember 16, 1889. The next leg, Las Rosas to El Trebol, was opened on January 15, 1890.
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The day-book has been transcribed as written, verbatim, without correction. All spelling and grammatical errors have been retained unchanged. We added month titles for clarity and simplified the preprinted day titles, otherwise anything we added or corrected is enclosed within [square brackets, with our comments in italics.] (Transcribed by: René Benitz.)
Newspaper clippings, notes, business cards, and any other items found inserted in the diary we have placed where most relevant. Items for which we could not determine dates, we placed where we found them.
MEMORANDA OF REFERENCE, &c.,
AS ADDRESSES, QUOTATIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Ernesto Bunge | Calle Victoria 19, Buenos Aires |
Fallenstein | Calle Entre Rios 56, Rosario |
Borges | Calle Libertad 676, B. Aires |
Agar Cross y Cia. | Calle Defensa 124, " |
E. Middleton | Rosario |
Tomas Lee | Calle Balcarce 352, B. A. |
Antonio Saralegui y Cia. | Calle Rivadavia 842, " " |
Ravenscroft | " " |
J. Schreiber | Calle Berutti 677 |
F. H. Chevelier Boutell | " San Martin 36, " " |
Antonio Yeend | Estancia Fortezuelas, Veria, F.C. Oeste, B. A. |
Bounice Rhoads | 304 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. |
G. Benitz | a/c Elias Anambari, Gualeguaychu, E. Rios |
Moore y Tudor | Calle Urquiza 102, Rosario |
Bartolo Viscornia | pork butcher Calle San Juan 78, Rosario |
Alison Hall | Calle Entre Rios 58 (Baracca Nueva), " |
Juan Jackson | " 25 de Diciembre No 1034, " |
Miguel Fraire | Estación Serodino, F.C.A., Sunchales |
Robert Hope | " Urquiza 686 near English Church, " |
Angel Perosi | (mercado Sud) No 19 Calle Cortado (pig butcher) |
Justo Salvaherra | (recero) Calle San Luis 852, Rosario |
Bartolo Tiscornio | (butcher) " San Juan 748, Rosario |
Nazario Casas | ( " ) Juarez Celman 310, Cordoba |
[Likely author: Herman Bz.]
Very hot day.
Butchered cow novillo for Andel. Dunkin went over to the Rosas and
the Lomas. We had a picknick in the garden. Herman went out in camp. We
put up the long tennes game and played in the evening. Andel came here in
the evening. Poens did not work.
Capared and señalared 105 lambs at puesto.
Butchered cow in south potrero for us.
" " for Andel.
Gustof fixing Pilar’s puesto.
This morning it was cloudy and it rained nearly the hole day long Herman went down to the Tijaras with Esidro to part the cattle on radao. But the rain prevented them doing so.
This afternoon Maximo Aguillera came and took a topo cattle he took 8 vacillos and one cow and a novillo
Butchered a cow for Andel
Gustof still at puesto.
Dull cloudy day. Butchered cow in South Potrero for us. Butchered cow in horse potrero for Andel.
Gustaf came home for the house was to wet to white was. Herman went over to Bertlings and round in camp every thing is all right
This morning it was a fine day. Herman and Dunkin went out in camp This afternoon MacI
Macintosh and Dunkin drove Miss Chute over to the Lomas
Herman went over the station to reglar acounts
Butchered a novillo for Andel.
This morning it was fin weather. We parted out 20. animals for Andel. Herman went over to receive Mr Cornish and family. Gustaf went to the Tijaras and white washed the house. Pacheco mended potrero fence. This afternoon Mr Macintosh and Mr. Cornish went into town
Butchered a vacilla for Andel
Herman went in camp
Mr and Mrs Bertlingk and Mr Chille were here
It was a warm day. Herman went around to see the Colonists. The brickmaker comenced to trash his wheat. We butchered a novillo for us. Herman took Cornishes children out rideing. This afternoon Mr Cornish and Mr Dickers came on a visit and left in evening. Herman took Mrs Cornish and Miss Chute and the children for a drive to see the trasher. today Gustaf went to finish white wash.
This morning it was warm weather to day Herman and Dunkin and Miss Cornish went to see the trasher and wend to the Tijaras every thing all right. Gustaf finished white washing.
This afternoon Mr Macintosh came back from Rosario.
Herman went over to Botlingks and put a novillo into potrero
Dunkin went in camp
Butchered a novillo for Andel
Jose and Sega came yesterday
This morning it was cloudy it rained last night. Herman and Macintosh and Manuel and Pacheco put a novillo of Nashes into the Tijaras camp. And went to see the trashers.
Bustof worked in the quinta.
Jose and Saja comenced work to day cleaning lane. Butchered a vacilla for us. Dunkin and Macitosh put two of Nasher calves into horse potrero In afternoon Herman and Dunkin went over to Lomas and Rosas it rained Mr Evans was here brough tennis balls for us.
This morning it cleared up and was a warm day Herman went in camp. Mr Macintosh and Dunkin went to Tijaras every thing all right. Jose and Seja put earth to the berbedos in horse potrero. Gustaf and Pacheco fixed fence in south potrero. Maximo Arguillera took 12 animals. Botelingk was here. This afternoon we sent Gustaf over to station with big carriage to get mended And brought some things.
Mother drove the ladeys over to Botelingk.
Butchered a vacilla for Andel
It was a warm day. Sent Gustaf and Pacheco to Tijaras mend gates and fence. Herman put cattle on rodero at Tijaras filled a well. Mr Dunkin and Mr Macintosh went in camp. everything all right. butchered a cow for us. Mr Cornish came on a visit to stay night
This morning it was very warm weather Herman went in camp. Mr Dunkin drove Mrs and Mr Cornish over to Las Rosas. This afternoon a storm came up and blew a big tree down. Butchered a novillo for Andel. Mr Macintosh went to Las Lomas to play polo. It rained very hard. Dunkin went in camp
This morning it was cloudy and comenced to rain. Dunkin went to the Tijaras. Macintosh went to Las Lomas and Pelars. Every thing is all right. Gustof mended poens house. Herman drove Mr Cornish over to the Station. Herman went to see Peper and the Butcher. We sent Gustaf to station with cart to bring the wash woman and the big carriage from the blacksmiths. Don Luis was here.
This morning it is a windy day Herman went in camp found every thing all right. Mr Macintosh and Esidro went to Tijaras to put the cattle on rodero. Maximo paid $117.00 for animals he took. Butchered a vacilla for us. This afternoon Mr Macintosh went to the Tijaras. Mother took the ladys out for a drive to the Tijaras. Gustaf and Saja worked in the quinta all day. Herman took Botlingks mail over them.
This morning it was fine weather. Herman went in camp and called in at the pulperae. Mr Macintosh went over to Stateion. to see a bought some things. Botelingk came over and went to see the trasher and colonists and had diner with us. Bustaf and Pacheco worked all day at Tijaras. Seja worked all day in kinta. Mr Macintosh took Miss Macintosh and Mrs Cornish out rideng. Butchered a vacilla for us. every thing is all right. Dunkin is still sick in bed.
This morning it was a fine day and no wind. Herman was at the Tijaras. Sent Gustaf and Pacheco to Tijaras to fix berbedos. Mr Macintosh went to Las Lomas to see Jacksens Sent ox cart to station for some thing Seja worked all day Jose half day. This evening Mr Macintosh took the ladys out driveing over to the new town. Butchered a vacilla for Andel. Herman went to see colonist. Botelingk took a horse a way that belonged to Chille.
It was a fine day it got cloudy. Herman took Jose with ox cart and received wheat from Domingo Sariote we received 158. saks in all. He had 1.580 saks. Butchered a vacilla for us. We had a picknick in the garden. Gustaf and Pacheco are still at work at Tijaras, This afternoon Tomarcito worked with ox cart. Jose worked all day carting wheat for us.
Mr Cornish came here and is staying night here. Every thing is all right Mr Macintosh went all over camp
This morning it was fine weather it was very warm Mr Macintosh and Esidro put cattle on rodero at Tijaras. Herman went to see the trasher every thing is all right. Herman and Jose made a derake to pull the wheat on roof. Bustaf and Pechaco finished at Tijaras. Butchered a vacilla for Andel.
This morning it was a fine day it was very warm.
Butchered a novillo for us. Herman went to see all the Colonists. Herman
went to see pulpero Andel. and potreros. Ladys went over to the Las Lomas
to see polo. yesterday Maximo took 12 animals. The Dickensons were here
Mother is very sick. Butchered a for Andel.
This morning it was very warm day. Herman sold ten animals to a butcher for 84. Maximo paid for the animals that he took. Herman and all hands at work puting wheat. on the roof to dry.
Mr Dunkin drove Mrs Cornishes children over to Las Lomas. This afternoon Mr Macintosh drove Mrs Cornish and Miss Chute to the station.
Mr Elliott was here. Herman went to see the trasher.
This morning it was very warm day Herman and Dunkin
went and received wheat from Colonist Jose and Seja worked with cart. we
received fivety sacks. Mother is still sick Butchered a vacilla for us. Mr
Macintosh went over to stateion to bring Mrs Cornish. Gustaf worked all
day in garden. Pacheco hoeded down weads. In afternoon all hands rakeing
the wheat on the roof. and lowered it and part, away Mrs Macintosh
went in camp and found every thing all right no body came here
This morning it was fine weather very warm day. All hands at work with the wheat on the roof. Mr Macintosh went in camp. Put cattle on rodero at Tijaras. Gustaf worked in front garden. Pacheco worked cuting weads. Jose and Seja worked all day. Tattey Dickenson and Governess spent the day here. Herman went to see trasher. Dunkin went to new town.
This morning it was cloudy and warm. Herman took Jose with cart and recieved wheat we recieved 78 sacks in all to day. Butchered a vacilla for us. Mouricio brough back the horse cart. All hands at sacking wheat and lowering it a puting it into the calpon. Don Louis and Mrs Bertlingk came here. Mr Macintosh took the ladys out redeing. every thing all right. Mother is still sick. We discharged Pacheco today
This morning it was very warm day All hands drying wheat. Herman regulated the accounts at stateion. Mr Cornish came here at noon. This afternoon sent Gustof to stateion to bring two boxes of carosane. Bertlingk was here. It is raining hard and it is windy Mr Cornish took Mrs Cornish and Miss Macintosh out rideing. Jose worked half a day Seja worked all day. Mother is much better. Mr Dunkin went to the Victoria
This morning it cleared up and was a nice cool day Herman went to see the trashers and the colonists Bertlingk was here Juan Moreno came and took Rosa away. Mrs Cornish and Miss Macintosh went out rideing Butchered a vacilla. finished sacking wheat
This morning was a fine day. Herman went see trasher. Mr. Parry was here to dinner This afternoon Mr. Wish of Las Rosas was here to tea. Mr Cornish and daughter and Macintosh went to Polo. Herman drove Mrs Cornish and Son over to Polo. Miss Elsie is onwell
Botlingk was here today.
This morning it was fine weather Herman took Jose and
Seja with cart and recieved elevan sack of wheat Butchered a vacilla for
us. the trashing ingine is burst. Gustaf worked all day long in garden.
Bertlingk was here. This afternoon Mr Macintosh dove drove Mrs
Cornish and family over to stateion. Gustaf went with horse cart with the
lugage Herman went in camp
This morning it was fine weather We sent a topo
tropo of novillos up to Moyano. The novillos gave some truble to get away.
Herman and Jose went around in the colonie. This afternoon sent Jose down to the Chupinos to see if he could do some carting a Tropo frome the Turbier is here and some natives frome BA are stoping here this evening Seja worked half a day puting earthe to the berbeados it is very stormy it is raining hard.
This morning it cleared up was fine day. Herman went in camp Jose worked all day, Seja did not work. Gustaf is still working down at Pelars puesto since yesterday This afternoon Herman went to station and brough Patrona. Maximo Aguilera took 9 animals Mr Macintosh came back with the poen from Cañada de Gomez. Butchered two capons for us. every thing is all right sent Jose over to Las Rosas to get some glycerine
This morning it was fine weather it got cloudy Herman took the two Pachecos and went down to the Tijaras and cured ten animals that were imbechada. And cured two mars. Mr. Macintosh went in camp. Jose worked half day Seja work half day Gustaf came home for some more calk and sand and thing for puesto. Butchered a novillo for us We cured two animals in south potrero in the evening it drizeled a little Tatos trasher came in our camp to trash.
This morning it was cloudy and drizely weather Herman and Macintosh took the two Pachecos and Manuelito and Esidro and parted out all the young oxen from the novillos and sawed the horns of a novillo. Gustaf went down to Pelars puesto and took Seja along to help. Herman sent Jose up to the Refango with a letter. Herman went to see the trasher The Refango people took 18 animals away. A tropo of cattle shut in our corrall. Refango tropo of mars shut in our corrall. It rained in the evening late.
[Likely author: Herman Bz.]
This morning it was cloudy and rained a little. Mr Macintosh took Manuel and Pacheco and two boys and parted out 12 novillos at Tijaras. Butchered a vacilla for us. Herman and Jose received wheat from Antonio Jose worked half day Gustaf and Seja came home at noon. every thing is all right.
This morning it is cloudy. Maximo Aguilera came and took 12 animals.
Macintosh went to Polo. Mother and Miss Macintosh went to the Tijaras in big carrage. Colonist girl stealing peaches Herman went to see the two trashers
This morning it was a very warm day Mother went into Canada de Gomez Herman and all hands working with wheat. Mash and another man came and stoped the afternoon here. Herman took Pacheco and Tomasito and put cattle on rodero for Nash, at Tijaras. Sent Gustaf down to Pelars to finish white wash the house Herman went to see trasher. Mr Macintosh went all over camp
This morning it was very warm Herman took Jose and Seja with two ox carts and received wheat from Tirante received 68 sacks today. Sent Mr Macintosh and Esidro with the two carrages to bring Mother Mr Spangler and family. Herman went in camp. Gustaf got finished with Pelars house. Herman and poens sacked the wheat on roof and lowered and put wet wheat up
This morning it was very warm Herman took Mr Spangler out for a ride. Herman received some more wheat from Tirante 59 sacks Mr Spangler went into Rosario Mr Macintosh drove him over to stateion and Macintosh went to Maximos and reglared the acounts with him. Gustaf worked all day cleaning the barn and cureing Johnies blancos eyes.
Tijaras fence cut by some one body.
This morning it was fine weather We butchered a cow for us.
Mr Macintosh and the two Pachecos cured some animals down at Tijaras. Gustaf got finished down at Pelars puesto All hands sacking the wheat on the roof and lowered and put in to callpon and we put damp wheat on roof. Macintosh and Herman went in camp.
This morning it got cloudy weather Herman and all hands spreading out the wheat to dry.
Mr Spangler is still here.
This afternoon it rained hard Mother went over to
Bertlingks in big carriage at and took Mr Spangler and family over
on avisit
This morning it was a weat day. Herman went to see trashers Mr Robson and Ogelsby came from Chaco We Butchered two capons We sacked the wheat on roof and lowered
Spangler went into Rosario
This morning it was very warm We butchered a novillo for us.
Mr Macintosh and Ogelsby went over to Las Lomas to Polo
Herman and Robson went in camp
This morning it cloudy
We put some more wheat on the roof to dry.
Herman and Robson went all over the coloney.
This morning afternoon the Miss Dickensons and
the two Mr
Macintosh and Ogelsby went over to Las Rosas
We put Mashes calves from horse potrero into the pigmans potrero, every thing is all right.
This morning it was a hazy day. Mother and Spanglers family went into Rosario Herman and Robson went to the Tijaras and looked at cattle the colonists stealing fruit from quinta. Gustaf mended fence
Herman and Robson went to see the potreros and went in camp Macintosh went in camp also We discharged Jose for there is no work for him
This morning it was very warm
Herman sent Gustaf and Seja down to the Tijaras to fill up 5 wells that were left by colonists. Butchered an old cow for us.
Herman and Macintosh went in camp at noon Geenwood came he called on here on his way up north. Ogelsby went up to the Castanias.
This morning it was fine weather. Herman and Robson and Manuel and Jose and Esidro went down to the Tijaras and cured 30 animals the hole day long.
Macintosh went over to the Station in big carriage to bring Mother from Rosario Mrs Mass and family came with Mother
Gustaf and Seja are still at work at Tijaras filling up well.
Macintosh went in camp.
Bravo is pulling water at Tijaras till we get a man to pull water
This morning it was very warm day
Herman and Macintosh and Robson and Jose and Manuel went down to Pelars puesto and cured some horses and capared one of the Marchos.
And brought the manada from pigmans potrero into the carrall and cured one mare and a colt.
Gustaf worked all day for Mother
We sacked the wheat on the roof a and put it
into calpon.
This morning it was fine weather
Herman went to see the trashers and Hermans horse run away with sddel [saddle] Macintosh and Robson went in camp Johnie came back at noon from down south. Gustaf worked ½ day
This morning it was cloudy weather butchered a
vacilla for us. Johnie and Macintosh and Robson went to Las Lomas to
Polo.
This morning it was fin warm weather. Johnie and Herman and Macintosh and Robson and Manuel and Jose and Esidro went to Tijaras and cured the animals we cured 44 animals in all, This afternoon Botleingks were here with some other people on a visit
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[Likely author: John E. Bz.]
Very hot day. butchered a calf.
All hands curing animals at the Tijeras.
one horse died from heat.
Johnie went around the colonies.
Very hot day. rained a little off and on nearly all day. Mr Bohllingk came over.
Jose helping Mauricio of the Tijeras look for some missing novillios.
Tropa of 1400 nov passed by. bought 29 lame novillios from tropero at 12.00 apiece, paid him cash put the nov into the south potrero. mark
Macintosh Tomasito and Manuel curing animals in the estancia potreros. butchered a calf.
Maximo Agilera took 2 cows and calves 4 vacillas.
Sold our wheat to Bohtlingk at 8.60 the fanega received 1,300.00 on ac. Macintosh and Johnie played polo at Las Lomas. Mr Ogilvie here.
Bohtlingks came over in the afternoon.
Very warm day. Macintosh Johnie, Jose, Asinetto, and Manuel cured animals from worms. all day at the Tijeras. broke a novillios leg.
Fine day. Received from B. Tisante and Mateo Reale as - percentage of wheat. 36 bags wheat.
Sold to Miguel Gonzales – 23 novillietos at 13.50 – 310.50 paid cash down. Sent 2 cartloads of wheat to Station seventy bags-.
Macintosh went over and weighed it off.
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Hot day, put all the rodeos on at the Tijeras and cured animals from worms.
finished before noon. hauled wheat up from colonist to the house.
Fine day. Mother and the Miss Macintosh drove over to Larguias and back
Very hot day. Mr Schultz from the Germania came over to see the water drawing machines took him to the Tijeras.
butchered a calf, sent 4 loads of wheat to the station.
Sold to Lindor Mora 10 novillietos at 14.00
Mr Macintoshes brother left
Fine day. Mother and the two Miss Macintoshes drove over to Larguias and back. Pig man sold seven pigs for 121.10 @ 3.00 the @ live weight.
Sold to Miguel Gonzalez 100 capons at 2.50 he took fourty away and paid a hundred and twenty five nats on ac.
Sold to Maximo Agilera 4 cows at 14.00. 1 nov at 15.00 2 nov at 14.00. 3 calves at 7.00 – 120.00 total. sent two cart loads of wheat to the station.
butchered a capon weighing 69 lbs clean.
Sold six pigs for a hundred and ten nats.
butchered a small animal.
Fine day, cool cart men cutting wood
rained pretty hard during the night.
Very hot day. hauled three cart loads of wheat for Bertaino Pietro to the station.
butchered a small calf.
Cool day. attended polo at Las Lomas – the ladies and Alfred attended. paid off and discharged the three cart peons.
Sold to Lindor Mora butcher at Las Rosas.
twenty small novillios at 13.00 – 260.00
Pigman sold ten pigs –- 219.00 --–----
Paid to Peter for the buildings fences and trees at the pulperia at the gate one thousand seven hundred nacionals 1,700.00 deducting what he owed us for one years rent of forety eight squares of land 206.40 and one years rent of pulperia 250.00 so only paid him 1,243.60 in cash. Peters term was up on the Jan 1/90.
Alfred Herman Macintosh and Manuel cured animals at the Tijeras. Johnie and Gustaf bagged all the wheat
Warm day. got all the oxen together, parted 34 of the best working bullocks out and put them into the puesto potrero, and the rest all the oldest heaviest oxen (twenty two) put into the big south potrero to sell.
Alfred and Johnie went to Las Lomas.
butchered a cow.
Countermarked a potro and gave certificado to Jose Gorosito. present as he leaves for Santiago.
Sold 17 pigs for 339.00 received our share.—- 169.50
Received 400. for rent. Received from F Martinez for header ac. 392.00
Mr, Mrs Carpenter and Miss Houston had breakfast here.
Mr and Mrs Bohtlingk Miss Roth and Bohtlingks cousin came over in the afternoon.
Sold 7 pigs 139.00. planted posts around the stacks at the back of the galpon.
Macintosh and Alfred drove to the station.
a bucket broke at the Tijeras. put up a new one.
Alfred and Johnie dined at the Tijeras. Santa Clara.
Fine day. William and family arrived, got off the train opposite the estancia.
paid O. Bantle’s ac. 259.94
received from Linda Mora 260. for reses-.
" " colonists rent and nov. 263.00
butchered a cow.
Rained quite hard in the afternoon. took William arround the potreros. and to Bohtlingks.
Sold 3 pigs – 56.50. Johnie and Macintosh attended polo. Mr Robson came over.
Mr Kinchant and Ogilby here for the night.
Fine day put all the cattle at the Tijeras on rodeo, cured worms’. shewed William all around the potreros. butchered a nov.
Mr Parry Miss Williams Miss Tattie Dickinson and Miss Cornish had breakfast here.
Fine day. received from Delfino Bautista a vale from Bohtlingk for 300.00. for rent.
Mr Higham with a tropa of novillio. passed here had breakfast. Willie Alfred Macintosh and Johnie went to Rosario. Alfred and Macintosh go to the Chaco.
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William and Johnie came back, brought Mr Kublank and a Mr Videla back with them. butchered a cow. took Mr Videla around the Tijeras Herman took Kublank to Las Rosas.
Miss Dickinson and Miss Trail rode over.
Rained heavy all day. William and Johnie rode to Monte de Oca and back before breakfast. bought two ploughs there. Mr Vedela and Kublank left. William left for Enter Rios took Herman along with him, gave him 150. to pay expenses.
Rained heavy all night. Johnie shot a dozen ducks. arranged about the rent of the pulperia with Antonio Andel he pays us three hundred nats a year, did not make contract yet.
Mothe, Clara, Miss Macintosh and the children drove over to the Santa Clara.
Beautifull day. Gustaf brought three loads of wood from the station in horse cart four in hand. Johnie and Ogilvie went all around the colonie and Tijeras.
Sent fourteen oxen to colonists to plough.
found one of the chestnut colt dead.
Beautifull day. took the two boys and Ogilvie to the Tijeras. Kemmis sent over twelve men and parted all the calves out of his cows. 110 calves. and took them to Las Rosas – he pays .60 for each calf he takes
Gustaf finished hauling the wood from the station.
sent him to the Tijeras to put a new piece of leather into a pileta valve.
hired a peon at 1.00 the day to mend fences --.
Clara and Johnie rode to Las Lomas in the evening.
Mr and Mrs Bohtlingk and Miss Roth came over.
Rained nearly all afternoon. sent Ogilvie, Isidro and Mauricio to look for animals strayed from the Tijeras. sent Hattie and Katy to spend the day at Las Lomas. Johnie arreglared our wheat and other ac. with Bohtlingk. butchered a calf.
Cold nasty day. Johnie went around the colonie and to Las Rosas and to the station.
Beautifull day. Ogilvie and Johnie blacksmithing. Mother and the ladies and children drove to the station and to Las Rosas. Miss Dickinson and Miss Williamson rode over. tropa shut in corral. Santiagenians stopping the night.
payed the RR monthly freight and encomienda bill 69.50.
Beautifull day. put the rodeos, at the Tijeras on recorered the other rodeos. and potreros.
butchered two capons.
Fine day. colonist payed rent. Mr Whish sent over 66.00 payment of 110 calves three months in the alfalfa. butchered a cow. Donkin and Robson here for breakfast. Ogilvy and Johnie attended polo.
Man still recorering fences, gave the Rosas people rode at the Tijeras to part the calves that came back traded two young oxen to B. Tisante for two big ones.
recorered the potreros – brought the potros up into the corral.
[Likely author: John E. Bz.]
Rec from Bohtlingk on ac of wheat 300. Ogilvy and Johnie put rodeos on at the Tijeras. Mrs Bohtlingk and Miss Roth came over to breakfast and spent the day. Mr Ogilvy drove the children to Las Lomas in the afternoon.
Clara and the children left for B.A.
Johnie went to Rosario to see Clara off.
Miss Macintosh went along as far as C. de Gomez. to stay with Mrs Cornish.
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Johnie and Miss Macintosh came back.
Mr Tregarthen just out from England came with him.
Bought yerba and sugar in Rosario.
also six machines to sow alfalfa.
Took some bullocks as sinuelo to the Tijeras and parted animals from one potrero to the other.
Hired a new capataz. discharged the old one.
Bought from Tregarthen two mares four potrancas
one redemon petiso and one mulita orejano all for 50.00. Miguel Gonzalez sent for the rest of the capons— 60 and paid for them. makes 100 he took for 250.00
Fine day foggy morning. Johnie went to the Rafango spent the day there with Mr Nash.
butchered a novillieto.
Johnie sold one of his polo ponies to the station master for sixty nats.
Beautifull day. shot an old horse in the alfa potrero and put strichnie in the meat to poison dogs.
took tigres manada back to the Tijeras.
Johnie shot some partridges
put the novillios in the stack potrero on rodeo.
Mrs Bohtlingk Miss Roth and Mr Hickitier came over to tea.
Very warm sultry day. put the rodeor at the Tijeras on. Gustof working at the
Tijeras, cleaning the trees at the wells. Man finished recorering the
fences. began to make the fence around the
wells. stacks.
The french people from the station came over in the evening.
Warm sultry day. took all the cattle out of the south potrero and put them into the horse potrero.
butchered a cow. paid Sargiotte 55.40 for bags.
Mr Parry was here for breakfast.
Warm sultry day, made three new stalls in the stable. out of old bebida and pileta boards.
Donkin was here, gave him 200.00 cash.
a tropa locks in for the night.
Mother and the two Miss Macintoshes drove over to Bohtlingks in the afternoon to tea.
Sent horse cart over to the station to bring out things came from Rosario. 6 alfa seeders. a barrel yerba two bags sugar and a box of feretteria.
Strong wind storm last night, rained a little. worked all day in the galpon.
Sent to the station to buy some screws and boards-.
spent 15.00. also got some hinges which Kublank sent up from the Cañada, beautiful day.
Very warm sultry day, butchered a nov.
Olilvie and Johnie attended polo.
Johnie and Ogilvie blacksmithing all morning. Mr Nash and a Mr Hughs here for breakfast. took them down to the Tijeras in the afternoon. Mr Whish and Mr Lowe came over to tea. brought up the bullocks from the puesto. Bohtlingks brother bought a horse from Ogilvie.
Warm day. Sent three cart loads of wheat to the station 106 bags, sold it to Bohtlingk for nine nats the fanega. loaded the carts again in the evening.
Ogilvie went to Las Rosas to dispatch the wheat.
Johnie blacksmithing in the morning, finished the stable. tremendous lot of mosca brava.
Warm sultry day, rained a little. hauled the rest of the wheat 99 bags to the station.
a tropa of nov from the Rafango gave water here and shut in for the night. 1061 head of nov. butchered a nov. Johnie changed all the padlocks on the potrero gates.
Hot sultry day. parted some animals out of the horse potrero and took them to the puesto. reset the corralon gate. finished hauling earth into the corralon.
Beautifull day, recorered the Tijeras potreros.
lent 6 bullocks to a colonist.
Sent Ogilby to Las Lomas to get certificates in the afternoon. Sent Gustof to station to buy a bag of flour a bag of coal and to get a window for the galpon.
Johnie went out shooting in the evening. a tropa of cattle from the Inhierto passed. hauled earth around the bebidas at the peon house.
Fine day. Johnie working in the shop all day.
Gustaf helping, peon busy carpering path to cemetary.
Mother and ladies went out driving.
Strong north wind, Oglivie and Johnie attended polo butchered a cow.
Very warm day. flies awfully bad,
Gustaf went down to the Tijeras to paint the wood work on the house and work around the wells.
Very warm cloudy day, foggy morning.
Johnie went to Las Rosas and to the station.
Bohtlingk came over in the evening, received a vale for 2.007.80$ on Lang Sager y Cia. Cañada de Gomez. on wheat ac.
Very hot day. peculiar haze in the sky.
Don Justo Salvatreria, butcher, was here today sold him the nov Moyano left 58 head at 25.00 apiece he pays in a few day. he has a months plaso to take the animals away. showed him the animals at the Tijeras. Mother drove to the Tijeras in the evening.
Fine day. Mother went to Rosario by mornings train.
Mr Ogilvie drove her to the station.
Gustaf finished work at the Tijeras.
butchered a cow.
Rec a letter from C.P. Hall from Chusmalal.
Strong north wind, coolish. not many fliest
took Solomons manada to the pig potrero and brought Monte Cristos mares into the stable as he has a sore foot.
Gustaf mended the machine at the Tijeras house.
Very hot day. strong north wind.
butchered a nov.
Macintosh came back. rode station masters horse over.
Very hot day. strong north wind.
sent carriage to the station to get Macintoshes things.
all hands played polo.
Rained a little during the night. and some today. men hauled earth around the bebidas in the south paddock. Gustaf working in the shop in the afternoon.
butchered a cow.
Rained a little during night.
Johnnie started for Cordoba. Gustof fixing water drawing machine in No 3 potrero, Tijeras. Ferora put earth round bebidas in S. paddock. Butcher took some animals from horse potrero.
Very hot day. Gustof fixing machine. Ferera fencing. Hyam came with tropa.
[Likely author: John E. Bz.]
Gale of wind during night; blew sheet of zinc off stable. Rained most of forenoon. Gustof in shop. Peon fencing. Butchered novillo in horse paddock.
The misses Dickenson came over.
Received from Santiago de Petros as rent 400.00
Cold north south wind. Lent 4 bullocks to colonist.
Mrs Cornish & daughter came.
Beautiful day. South wind. Flies bad.
Macintosh, Ogilvie & two boys put on rodeos in potreros 1 & 3.
Johnie came back.
Johnie took to Cordoba from home 1.076.90 received in C. de Gomez from Salvatierra for 58 nov 1.450.00 from Heiland for wheat sold to Bohtlingk 2.007.80, received in Cordoba from Moyano 1.200.00, paid to Juan Birmingham to by alfa seed with 5.600.00, paid to Girling 60.00 for a wagon wood. and Johnie expenses of trip was 68.70 fraught back 6.00 -----
Very cold morning. beautifull weather. Mrs and Miss Cornish here.
Paid to Pilar 292.10. arreglared up to May 5/90
Beautifull weather. Mrs Cornish and Maggie left. Miss E. Macintosh went along. goes to stay a few days with Mrs Cornish.
Mr Mallet and Mr Loader came out in the evening train brought dogs and guns along to shoot.
Parted out two biggest potros for Manuel to tame.
Mr Mallet and Loader out shooting. collared five nov for B. Tisante fiared.
Manuel domaring.
Mother and Macintosh drove to station brought back Mrs Tome and two children and nurse from Cordoba.
gustaf working in shop.
Very warm sultry day. Loader Mallet Ogilvie and Johnie went duck shooting.
In the afternoon Macintosh and Johnie played polo at Las Lomas. in the evening Macintosh and his sister went to Las Lomas to a dance, came back early in the morning. Manuel domaring.
Received from Cuello 144.00 for 8 nov sold him.
a man came wants to buy hides and hair. sold to him.
Mother and Mrs Tome drove to the Tijeras.
loaded up the hides hair and alfa bags into the cart.
Mr and Mrs James came in a hired carriage.
Gustaf took the hides to the station weighed hides and hair.
90 hides 897 K at 365 the 10K. 327.40
1 bag horse hair 20½ K. @ 8 the 10K. --- 16.00
2 " cow hair 41 K @ 6 " 10K. --- 24.06
Sent 350 empty alfa bags to Bell Ville to Birmingham.
Johnie drove Mr and Mrs James to the station.
Very hot day.
Rained pretty hard last night. strong south wind very cold. Johnie went to Carcaraña and back. by train. Mother and Mrs Tome visited Bohtlingks.
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Beautiful day. Johnie went to B. Aires.
Mrs Benitz drove to Las Rosas with Mrs Thome.
Butchered novillo in horse potrero.
Cold dull day. Manuel drove in big carriage to Larguias & brought bag of flour from Germania.
Gustof ploughed piece of land for potatoes.
Mrs & two Misses Saint-John & Mr & Mrs Bohtlingk came to tea.
Mrs Benitz Mrs Thome & family went to Cordoba.
Nash stayed all night, also Robinson.
Butchered cow in horse paddock
Received for Nash 85 novillos & put them into South potrero. Nash went to Tijeras to see his potrancas. Nash & Robinson looked at pigs and stayed all night. Mrs Cornish & Miss E. Macintosh came today.
Nash & his friend Ramon A Lopez Lecube, and Robinson left today. Nash's men parted & took away 15 cows from No2 potrero.
Cold fine day. Parted some potrancas, mules & horses from pig potrero to Pilar's. Gustof & Jose worked all day in garden.
Drove Mrs Cornish & Maggie to the Rosas.
Butchered novillo in horse paddock.
Fine day. Fixed machine in No 4 potrero. Ciriaco began to pull water at Tijeras. Marull's tropa locked in big corral, about 1300 head.
Dry cold day. Went round colony & all the potreros. Another tropa of Marrull's locked in, about 600 head.
Put on rodeos in potreros Nos 1 & 4
Butchered novillo in horse potrero. Johnie came back. and brought two butchers. Don Nazario Casas from Cordoba. and Bartolo Tiscornio.
Foggy morning. Showed all the cattle at Tijeras to the butchers. One butcher went to the Rosas, the other stayed all night. Mr Bohtlingk & Mr Shultz called.
Very warm day. sent. B. Tiscornia to the station. recorered the potreros. Manuel domaring.
Hired a peon at .50 set him to work taking down Peters potrero.
Very mild cloudy day. braught up the potrancas and mules from puesto and put them into the stack potrero. took the mares from stack potrero and put them into the pig potrero and the two manadas from pig potrero into the puesto potrero caught up the three stallions, stabled them.
butchered a nov. Manuel domaring.
Cold disagreeable day. Avelino came back from the expedition to Neuquen. braught three horses- for Johnie. all hands attended polo at Las Lomas.
Cold day. Received the first lot of alfa seed from Bell Ville. sent horse cart over braught 37 bags-.
Mr Whish came over in the afternoon.
Mr Nash sent 100 nov from C. de Gomez put them into the south paddock.
Seja working taking down Peters potrero.
Sunny day, made two trips with horse cart. brot over all the alfa seed 70 bags.
butchered a cow.
Avelino got up the tropilla of redemons.
Warm cloudy day. Avelino and Tomasito took redemon tropilla to Las Rosas and braught over a potro tordillio that was there.
Gustaf braught wire from Peters fence.
Mrs Larguia sent a peon to get flowers-.
Rained pretty hard during the forenoon. peons could not work. blacksmithing.
Robinson stays the night.
Showed Robinson the pigs. tratared to sell him all our share of the pigs at 12.00 al corte.
Rained during the night. ground splendid for ploughing.
Beautifull day. Sent Gustaf to the station to get 5 bags of potatoes. two peons taking down Peters fence. butchered an old cow, staked hide for lasso
Mr and Mrs Bohtlingk came over to tea.
Macintosh and boys took polo ponies to C. de Gomez. to play match tomorrow.
[Likely author: John E. Bz.]
Fine day. Johnie and Haward and Maggie Cornish drove to the C. de Gomez. in little carriage.
played polo match against C. de G. camp beat.
Beautifull warm day. Macintosh Johnie and Hayward came back from C. de Gomez. before breakfast.
Received 192.00 from a colonist for old nov. ac.
Fine sunny day. Recorered all the potreros. In the afternoon. Macintosh and Gustaf went to Las Lomas to borrow some hurdles to make pens to part pigs.
butchered a cow.
Macintosh Johnie and Gustaf put up the hurdles in the pig corral. sent carriage to station braught Mother, Mr Nash and Mr Tippinge.
Warm sultry day. took Mr Nash around the potreros.
sent him to the station.
Mr Robinson and Mr Ishwood came in the evening take the pigs away in the morning.
butchered a cow.
gave colonist a carada of rama.
Herman arrived in hired trap from the station. came back from Entre Rios.
Fine day. all hands out got all the pigs into the pens. and divided them. the pig man
and Robinson picking alternately. our share was- 246. we kept back two of
the best b sows- and Robinson baught the rest. 244 at 12.00 he drove them off to the Cañada de Gomez.
he is to pay for them next week,
parted out 12 of the best young sows from the pig mans lot.
Robinson and Ishwood stay here for the night.
Started Jose Ferera to sow alfa on Bertaino Pietros land.
sent two bullock carts to the station to bring over 101 bags of alfa seed one cart broke its axle at the station had to send horse cart to bring the rest of the seed.
sent an ox cart to the pig man to bring up the twelve sows.
butchered a cow
Cold day. played polo at Las Lomas-.
Salvatierra here for the night.
Frosty morning. put peon at digging out posts at Peters. Sent cart to Station got two bags yerba three bags sugar and one box tea, carted a load of parts down from Peters.
Mr. Robinson here for the night.
Mr and Mrs Bohtlingk called on.
Jose sowing alfalfa.
Set posts for pig paddock. boring holes.
Took Mr Whish to set Kemmises cattle at the Tijeras.
Mr Kublank died.
butchered a small animal.
Cloudy day, all hands working on pig fence.
Herman and Manuel got some animals into the potrero. that had gotten out in a break in the fence.
Jose sowing alfalfa. sent seed there.
Very cold day, strong south wind, coldest day had yet.
all hands at the pig fence.
braught up a new milch cow from the puesto.
butchered a cow.
a tropa locked in.
Robinson here for the night.
Very cold day. Strong north wind. Robinson left.
Sent Tippinge to the station.
worked at pig fence. Jose sowed alfalfa
Very cold cloudy day. north wind.
men finished pig fence. Johnie paid R.R freight bill also bill at Piquet Limuniere.
Sent Gustaf to the station. to buy a 2x3 tirante and 2 one inch boards. 85 bags of alfa seed arrived at station.
Cold cloudy day, played polo, butchered a cow.
Cloudy drizzly day. started another man sowing.
hauled 70 bags of alfa seed from the station.
Ogilvie went to the Rafango.
sent Avelino to cobrar ac from colonist.
Very cold day. strong south wind, cloudy.
The two Miss Macintoshes went to Rosario.
got over the rest of the alfa seed 15 bags.
started to sow at two new colonists but had to stop-
butchered a cow.
Cold day. south wind could not sow.
turned ten pigs into the pig potrero.
Justo Salvatierra sent for the 58 nov. out of stack potrero.
carpentering and blacksmithing.
Quite warm day, cloudy, started another sowing machine. braught up the potros and parted out the invernada horses 20 and put them into the pig potrero.
braught up the potrancas and parted out a few horses.
butchered a novillio.
Herman and Gustaf fixed fence around the stacks.
Young Hall got stuck in the Cañada, sent peon to get him out.
Misses Macintoshes came back.
Cold cloudy day. four machines sowing alfalfa.
Gustaf and Eusebio setting gates anew and mending fences. Young Hall and Herman shooting martineta. a lot of skins from the tanner arrived. Macintoshes shooting in the chaco.
Cold cloudy day. sent horse cart to the station to get 13 tirantes 4x4 pine tea to put on the top of the posts on horse corral. tirantes were sent from Rosario. four machines sowing alfalfa.
cleaned up all the vasura from around peon houses
Young Hall left.
Beautifull day. sent gardener to Germania for 1 bag bran and two of flour. played polo at Las Lomas-. station master came over to shoot martineta.
Fine day. started all the alfa sowers (5) on fresh pieses of land. Cuello came over and took away 99 cows of Kemmis from the Tijeras. for Salvatierra.
Miguel Fraire on a visit here.
Mr Tippinge left.
Very foggy morning. but fine day. lent Miguel Fraire a horse to go to the Castanias.
Young Hall came back. all hands busy sowing.
butchered.
Herman and Gustaf working at Tijeras wells.
Very heavy fog nearly all day. Johnie and Manuel and the two boys hand cured all the sheep and señelared and capared thirty three lambs. Young Hall shooting. Miguel Fraire left.
Beautifull day, finest day this winter.
took ox cart to pig mans and braught up 6 capons- twelve embra pigs. traded for 3 cows and calves and 4 vacillas. put them into patrerito with rest of pigs.
five machines sowing.
Mr Begg another gentleman Mr Hall and Johnie went out shooting in the afternoon and killed fourty martinetas.
Mr Bohtlingk came over.
Fine day. foggy morning. Miss M. Macintosh left. for Buenos Aires. five machines sowing.
butchered.
Gustaf getting posts at colonists tapera.
Warm sunny day. north wind. five machines sowing.
Strong north wind getting very dry. played polo at Las Lomas. Donkin here.
Fine warm day. Johnie hand cured the sheep and señalared and capared 200 lambs.
Miss E Macintosh went to Rosario. five machines sowing. butchered a nov. Mr Bohtlingk came over in the evening. Mr James from Carcaraña came up in train Herman drove him over. he comes up to look at pig mans pigs-.
Men from Rosario here to take cattle. (Kemmises) from the Tijeras.
Nash sent to Birmingham a cheque for 1.000.00 for alfa seed.
Warm day. five machines working. Salvatierra took 150 of Kemmises cows away. Manuel and Isidro helped part. Nash shut in twenty stallions in corrall.
Herman drove Mr James to C. de Gomez.
Strong north wind, cloudy day, damp, Herman came back brot back Dr Carr. sent him on to Las Lomas.
Mr Munroes cousin here for breakfast. from the Caledonia.
started three men to sow in fresh places-.
took down horse corrall, will put it up fresh.
butchered a novillio.
Very warm sultry day. cloudy and stormy.
worked on horse corrall.
Herman with peon and bullock cart brot over 64 bags alfa seed.
Mr Robson here for the night.
five machines sowing.
Beautifull day. the glorious fourth of July Hurrah!
worked on the horse corall all day.
four machines sowing.
butchered a capon
Herman worked at Tijeras mending bucket.
Johnie rode to C. de Gomez and back, received from Robinson for the pigs. 1.928. cash. he had sent. 1.000. to Birmingham for the alfa seed. Hauled 68 bags of seed from the station today.
some visitors from Rosario here today.
Fine sunny day, rather dry, played polo at Los Lomas, rode over to the station to see H. Dickinson and Sisters off. they go to England.
Fine weather. visitors left. brot back 2 bags stove coal in the carriage. peons drunk from yesterday, worked on horse corrall.
Heavy frost this morning, butchered a nov.
Miss Macintosh and brother came back.
Very heavy frost this morning. worked at horse corrall. five machines sowing.
Johnie and Macintosh went to the Independencia.
Fine day. Johnie went to the Germania and bought eleven picked sows for 260.00
five machines sowing.
butchered a fat pig
butchered a novillio.
Herman and peon took ox cart and braught the eleven pigs from the Germania, coming through the puesto gate, the peon fell off of the cart and got run over. hurt very badly, three ribs broken, braught him up in the carriage. Dr Donkin got the case in hand. Johnie went to station and Las Rosas. paid R.R. freight bills and other accounts there. very frosty mornings.
Sent a valor of 1.105.$ to Birmingham
Fine day, domaring potros. five machines sowing.
Mr Bohtlingk called on. tropa shut in.
Warm day. butchered, played polo at Los Lomas-.
Very warm day. four machines sowing alfa.
Manuel domaring. brot up two bebidas for the pigs, sent to Santa Clara and got twenty bags- of cleanings of wheat at .40 cts the bag return the empty bags.
Herman went to Las Leones to look at a boar.
gave a native a cart load of dry alfa.
Robson here.
Warm sultry day, north wind looks like rain.
Herman came back.
Donkin and Robson went to Las Chilcas.
Strong south wind, no rain, wind too strong to sow alfalfa. blacksmithing.
Mother went to Carcaraña to visit Jameses.
Herman drove her to the station.
butchered a cow. sent the hide to Pilar to make lasso.
Beautifull warm day. The Carpenters from Los Hermanos spent the day here. Donkin and Robson drove to the Castanias. borrowed the pig mans boar.
Strong north wind, could not sow alfalfa.
butchered a cow, blacksmithing.
Strong north wind. Johnie went to Las Rosas- got 200$ from Wish on ac. of invernada. Herman went to C. de Gomez. rode to the station. Mother and Herman came back, brot a servant girl back with her.
Strong north wind, warm and looks like rain. regulated our ac. with B. Cuffia. French pulpero was here. showed some land to some colonists. played polo. Miss Macintosh drove to Las Lomas. received 13 bags maize from colonists as 12/00
Stormy day. but did not rain too bad.
Donkin and Robson left for the Chaco. Macintosh drove them to Diaz, took two
greyhounds along. butchered a cow, received
eleven 14 bags of maize as 12/00
from colonist. strong south wind. sold winchester to Robson for 85.00.
Received a cheque from Whish as – invernada payment.
Cuello took 67 cows of Kemmis out of the Tijeras.
Herman brought Norman Hall from the station. a recero from Cordoba is here for the night. Ignacio Fraire.
Cloudy dismal day. took Ignacio Fraire around the cattle. lent Norman Hall a horse to go to the 51. Macintosh came back.
Ogilvie here for the night.
Discharged the gardener and his wife, the cook, paid them off. 348.00.
Sent to the station and got 22 trancas that came from Rosario.
Rained a little during the night. and drizzled during a part of the day. Herman and Gustaf working mending the two big corralls, resetting the tranceros. and putting new trancas up.
a tropa locked in. Ogilvie left.
Very cold day. misty. finished working on big corral. butchered a cow.
some troperos here for the night.
Very heavy frost this morning. but nice warm day. three machines sowing alfalfa.
Cuello took 48 of Kemmis cows from the Tijeras.
butchered two fat pigs.
Mother drove to the station in carriage.
Heavy frost this morning. but fine warm day.
Johnie and boys hand cured the sheep and señalared a hundred. 100. capons lambs.
Mr Hall and Salvatierra here for the night.
three machines sowing alfa.
Tremendous exitement, seems revolution has broken out in B.A. commisions going about catching all the peons. eighty men called on at eleven last night, on their way to C. de Gomez. Mr Hall went down with the train. played polo.
Warm day. peons all hiding. one cleared out
Macintosh rode down to the Independencia.
Herman ploughing in the quinta.
Warm sultry day. horse cart went to station brot back 2 bags sugar one bag yerba.
Herman ploughing in quinta. Gustaf cutting willow slips and planting in the furrows.
Johnie pruning trees at puesto.
got an Italian sowing alfalfa, peons all hiding.
Strong north wind. peons still hiding
commisions going about. rumors of fighting in B.A. revolution of troops against government.
butchered.
Strong warm north wind, hope it will rain
wheat coming up very thin. alfalfa not at all
Johnie all day at puesto pruning and trans planting trees. peons sowed a little in the morning planted about 2000 willow slips in the quinta in plough furrows.
Strong north wind, Johnie worked at puesto all day.
Herman pruning trees at quinta.
brought up a cart load of alfa to the house.
butchered.
South wind looks rainy. Macintosh and the two boys took the ponies to C. de Gomez to play polo on Sunday.
Mr Hayward here for the night.
brought from the station a hundred bags of barley for seed at .45 the @ $235.80 bought it from Heighland.
Revolution is over.
Rained hard all day. splendid!
Johnie and Hayward started to drive to C. de Gomez but had to turn back, it rained so.
A. tropa locked in for tonight
Macintosh came back, boys and ponies also.
Rained all last night and nearly all day. no work done, Gustaf worked in blacksmith shop.
Cleared up. but very cold day. south wind
Anacleta filling up around the bebidas in south paddock. Eusebio digging in the garden.
butchered a nov.
Mrs and Mr Bohtlingk came over in the afternoon.
Fine sunny day. but very cold morning.
Macintosh bought 150 sheep from F Smythies. at 4.00 a head senal punta lansa a lado derecho y oreja rajada las otra [ear-mark spear point right side and ear slit the other]. He and Donald brought them home.
Gustaf finished pruning the trees around the wells at the Tijeras.
Anacleta finished putting earth around the bebidas.
Jose sowed all day alfalfa.
Cuellos men came to part Kemmis cows from the Tijeras.
Received 600.$ from Kemmis for invernada
Paid to F Smythies 600.$ for the 150 sheep.
Cuello took 50 of Kemmises cows out
Johnie rode to C. de Gomez and back. he paid Heiland for the barley seed 281.75, and saddler and tailors bills. fine day.
brought up a load of dry alfalfa
Fine day. transplanting trees. pruning.
butchered a novillio.
hauled a load of weeds to the peons house.
Donald taking care of the sheep.
Fine day. Mother and Gustaf transplanting trees at the Tijeras. Herman and Anacleta braught some groceries arrived at the station from C. de Gomez. Macintosh and Johnie. and boys hand curing the sheep at the puesto. senalared 28 lambs. a pig got seven young ones. shut up another that will pig in a few days.
Beautifull day. brought up the manada from the Tijeras. (Tigres) shut in the potros in corrall all day. Visitors here from the Leones.
Played polo at Las Lomas.
Strong north wind, warm. got up all the manadas and marked 31 foals and 30 fillies and six mules broke one fillies neck. seperated the foals and put them amoung the potros and put them into potrero No 3 at the Tijeras. 139 in all. and the fillies mixed them with the potrancas and put them down into the puesto. put Tegres manada into horse potrero. Maemgos into the stack paddock. and Solomons and Monte Cristos into the south paddock. Gustaf went with cart and four horses to the Santa Clara and brought over 60 bags wheat cleanings at .50cts the bag.
North wind in the forenoon and south in the afternoon.
Sent to the puesto for the hurdles and cured and senalared Macintoshes sheep.
Jose sowing alfalfa at Tirantes.
Strong south wind, very cold. Johnie rode to the Rafango and back. brought Mr Nash back with him, took him around the potreros where his cattle are. Gustaf planting trees at the Tijeras, Mercedes and Eusebio mending fences.
Jose sowing alfalfa, Macintoshes horse broke its leg.
skinned it, gave the meat to the pigs
butchered.
put another pig into a separate pen. to get young.
Calistro gathering weeds.
Cold morning and cold south wind all day.
received a cart load of maize in espiga.
two sows got young ones.
Gustaf worked at the Tijeras.
Rec 20 bags maize as 12/00 of maize crop from C. Bolino.
Beautifull day nice and warm.
butchered a nov and two capons.
Mr Kinchant sent his ponies down.
another pig got young ones-.
Fine day. Johnie transplanted some trees at the puesto (figs) and at the house. killed a lot of rats.
Macintosh and the two boys took the ponies to C. de Gomez.
Mr Kinchants and Haywards also went.
Hauled up weeds. Anacleta harrowing weeds.
Mr Hayward and Johnie drove to C. de Gomez.
played the polo players there. beat them.
Mr Macintosh and Hayward came back.
Johnie went to Carcaraña.
Mr Nash sent 26 novillios at 1.00 put them into the stack potrero.
Cuello took 40 cows of Kemmises from the Tijeras.
butchered a cow.
Johnie came back bought a bull three yars old nearly thorough bred from Mr Nash for 150.00m/n
Mr Nash took 117 potrancas from the Tijeras. he left 6 here.
Beautifull day. transplanted paraiso trees around peon house. Herman recorered the Tijeras.
brought up a load of alfalfa. also three bedidas from the pigmans.
Mother and Miss Macintosh drove to town.
Strong north wind, cloudy in the evening, looks like rain. Raymundo fetched the barley seeds to sow tomorrow.
butchered a novillio.
Old Sosa here.
South wind. made a box for a bridge down in the Cañada, drove eight tirantes into the mud and made sides and top out of old bebida boards.
Jose sowing alfalfa at Terantes. sent seed to Raimundos.
Bohtlingk's came over in the afternoon.
took two potros and the Jack down to the Tijeras.
Jose sowing alfalfa.
Cold cloudy day, butchered a cow. skinned a mare that died, also a novillio some troperos left here. Mercedes and Anacleta began to make the earthworks for the bridge. pay them 35.00 for making it
brought up the invernada horses put them into south paddock.
Beastly day. strong south wind. drizzling cold rain.
played polo at Las Lomas.
Cold south wind. but cleared up, could not work
Beautifull warm day, Mercedes and Anacleta working on the bridge,
butchered a novillio,
Jose sowing alfalfa. hand cured Macintoshes sheep one lamb died.
stopping with earth holes around pig potrero.
dischard Doña Juana, peons cook, for stealing meat.
Fine day. brought up all the manadas and remade them, put fourty manad mares- into each manada four manadas-.
turned out of the manadas nine mares-.
took them also some horses to the puesto.
put Tigres mares into No 4 Tijeras Solomons into south potrero, Maengo's into stack paddock and Monte Cristo's into pigmans potrero.
Bought ninety bags- maize from colonist at .25 la @.—108.83
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Warm day north wind, butchered a cow,
Received from Mr Kemmis for invernada 500.00 cab.
Cuello took 17 cows away from Kemmises cattle at the Tijeras. Jose sowing alfalfa
Johnie fetched Mr L. Hall from the station.
Fine warm day. Santa Rosas, feast day. no work, big races at the pulperia. Johnie took the two Mr Halls out shooting. Johnie went to the station arreglared accounts. Jose sowing alfalfa
Nice day. played polo at Las Lomas. Halls out shooting
Mr Ogilvie here for the day.
Very warm day. Cecelio Herera took out 10 of Kemmises cows - from the Tijeras. started two men to sow alfalfa seed.
sent horse cart to station got 23 bags barley seed and one bag flour.
butchered a novillio.
The two Mr Halls' left. Herman drove them to the station.
paid the two colonists for maize one 90 bags – 229.29 m/n the other. 147.95$
Awfully windy day. north. dusty. could not do any work. sent Avelino and Manuel to Tortugas to look for a potro. heard it was down there. but it was not ourn. Mr Trails race horses- here for the night.
Strong south wind. very dry and dusty.
Anacleta and Mercedes finished the bridge, paid them off. 35.00. three men sowing alfalfa at Raimundas, butchered,
a tropa locked in for the night.
Strong south wind. three men sowing at Raymundos-. finished, Macintosh rode to C. de Gomez and back.
brought up the potros from the Tijeras and parted out eleven for Avelino to tame,
one of Mr Nashes potrancas got hooked sowed it up.
Cold cloudy day. east wind, looks like rain.
Eusebio and Calistro sick.
hand cured and cleared and cut the sheeps hoofs at the puesto. butchered a novillio. also a capon
sent a capon to Cornish, and one to Bohtlingk. a commisioner of the government was here looking over the Estancias to get an estimate of the value.
Mr Whish had breakfast here.
Avelino domaring.
East wind cleaed up again, no rain, too bad.
sent horse cart and race horse to C. de Gomez. also alfalfa and maize. carted up a load of hay to the house.
Macintosh and Johnie went to Las Rosas.
Nice warm day. played polo at Las Lomas.
Miss Macintosh went to C. de Gomez.
Herman and Johnie drove and Macintosh rode to C. de Gomez to the races at the Esperanza. Macintosh rode a horse in the race. H. and Johnie came back in the night.
Rained a little in the evening, not much though!
Fine day. parted two calves of out of Las Lomas potreros. bought up the Lecheras from the puesto and marked the calves. 15 macho and 12 embra left 6 for bulls. parted the 6 bulls into the stack potrero and the vacillars 12 into pigmans potrero.
Macintosh came back, butchered a novillio.
Miss Macintosh came back.
Brought up Tigres manada from the Tijeras. parted two out old ones put them into the
puesto potrero, and put three into in their place from Monte
Cristos manada, making each manada of fourty mares. a mare died at the
Tijeras took its skin off. brought up the meat for the pigs.
Sent 38 cow and 2 potro hides to the station to be sent in to Rosario to A. Hall. brought seven boards from frenchmans.
Avelino and Manuel domaring.
Cecelio Herera took seven cows of Kemmises from the Tijeras.
South wind, cool day. started Calistro sowing alfalfa seed.
Eusebio and Jose taking fence down.
Manuel and Avelino domaring.
Hugo Wagner here for the night.
Macintosh and Johnie went to Las Rosas and brought over 8 black faced rams in big carriage, in two trips, bought them for 25.00 apiece, put them into a pen in the quinta.
Sent Gustaf to town to buy some empty barrels.
Cold day, south wind.
Mr N. Hall here for the night.
Sent Isidro and Jose to Carcarana to fetch a bull. took some bulls along.
Cold south wind. Silbuet a butcher from Armstrong took 10 of Kemmises cows from the Tijeras and Cecelio Herera took 12 cows. Silbuet paid us for the cows 160.00 and we keep the money on invernada ac. Herman dispatched them
Johnie and Manuel bot chestnut stallion from Rafango paid 500 for him taks it out on ac of Nashes invernada ac. Macintosh and peon brot up rams in cart from puesto (8) dipped them and put with rest.
Johnie went to Bohtlingks and Las Lomas in the afternoon.
Strong north wind, never saw such windy weather. every day wind. either from one side or another.
played polo at Las Lomas –
Cuello parted 66 of Kemmises cows out put them into No 1 potrero.
Made pagare with Juan Guarnero he is to pay us $325.92 on the April 1/91 for old rent ac. he lives in finado Fausto Gomezes camp.
Paid Sosas interest on 2.800 at 7/00 296.00
Sent the polo ponies to C. de Gomez. Macintosh and Johnie drove down. and played a match against C. de Gomez and Santiago del Estero teams beat them both. no goals got on the other sides.
butchered a novillio
Strong north wind, warmish and very dry and dusty.
Isidro and Jose came back from Carcarana with the bull.
North wind nearly all day. clouded up, and then in the evening wind changed to pampero from the south.
Macintosh and Johnie came back, at noon.
Avelino domaring.
Kemmis took the last of his cows away 16 head.
Beastly day, strong south wind, cold, marked off a little potrero of 6 squares of alfalfa to cut, in the north east corner of the south potrero.
put Eusebio digging post holes.
dug out posts of the fence that was taken down.
hauled them up to the house.
a tropa locked in for the night.
Heavy frost this morning. strong south wind all day.
went to the Tijeras put our novillios 483 head into No 3 potrero and put the potros into No 1 potrero where 66 of Kemmisses cows are belonging to Cuello. who pays the pasto since the 15th.
Parted out 100 of the best novillios out of Nashes cattle in No 2 and braught them up to the house and put them into the south potrero where Nashes other nov are. 100 nov of . 85 22 oxen and 100 .
butchered a small animal
Mr Higham here for the night.
Eusebio digging post holes.
Warm day, north wind. began to set the posts on small cutting paddock. Mr Higham here. has hurt his foot.
butchered a nov.
Pique and his family came over to tea.
North wind. warm and dry. began drawing the wires on the fence.
Johnie and Avelino took tropilla to Las Rosas brot over a chestnut mare. toslada tapada ½ bred in foal to Blair Adam, is the mare Kemmis traded to Hattie for bobby, the pony.
took the carriage over and got four more rams baught at 25.00 apiece.
North wind all forenoon and south in the afternoon.
never saw such miserable weather.
Cuello took away 10 cows from No 1 potrero.
Played polo at Las Lomas.
Strong south wind. Macintosh and men worked all forenoon at fence. in the afternoon all hands had to go to the Tijeras to put out a fire that came in from the Independencia and did gread deal of damage burning of posts had great trouble to put it out burned a big piece out of No 1 potrero.
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This morning it was cloudy and look like rain
Johnie went into Rosario to get posts.
Herman and the two Macintoshs brough all the mars from south potrero and parted out all horses. And put the horses in horse potrero. Gustaf went to Tijaras to fix the fence and gate.
Mr Macintosh and Donald took a manada of mars down to Tijaras
This afternoon. Herman and Macintosh went out in camp.
We butchered a novillo.
This morning strong south wind.
Mr Macintosh and brother went the Puesto
Herman went and gathered the mars togather and looked after the poens mending the horse potrero. Gustaf went to Tijaras with cart and set the gate post rights.
Manuel skined one of Nashes novillos that died in the south potrero.
Mr Macintosh went over to the station in little carriage to meet Johnie.
But Johnie did not come
Cheviro and Jose are still mending fence
Johnie came back this evening. Mr Hall and Mr Todd are here for the night.
braught up the posts and wire from the fence araund the stacks.
peons mending fences.
Fine sunny day. Mr Hall and Todd left. Halls novillios shut in for the night. butchered a novillio.
turned out the two other stallions to their manadas. at the Tijeras. each has 40 mares.
paid our ac. at the Pequets Limumeris 400.$ sent cart over braught over groceries.
North wind very dry and hot. played polo at Las Lomas.
Took six men to the Tijeras to mend the burnt fence hauling posts from the station there.
a lot of mares have foaled. Hattie's mare also.
a filly foal.
North wind. all hands working at the Tijeras at fence.
Pedro Corta and Ricardo Frontera were here looking at the cattle. sold Pedro Corta 100 of the Chaco novill at 30.$ to be taken by the 15 of October.
butchered a novillio.
Sent carriage to the station got 4 one inch boards.
Brick makers came to begin to make bricks.
molde 14 x 7 x 3 inches at 11.50 per mil. to make 70 or 80.000 sell them meat at 1.20 las 10K.
Cuello took ten cows away from the Tijeras.
[Likely author: John E. Bz.]
Fine day. Cuello took 20 cows away from the Tijeras.
braught up a bucket from the Tijeras set it up at the well where the briks are to be cut, the old lechera well.
Sent carriage to the station in the evening to fetch the mason who is to work here.
All hands working at the fence at the Tijeras.
Beautifull warm day. Sent oxen to the station, braught over the bullock cart that was mended at blacksmiths.
also some tirantes and boards from P. and Limunieres.
made a ladder and two high bucles.
mason began work.
Herman ordered two wheel baroows and a brick molde at blackmith at station.
butchered one of Ogilvies oxen.
Two men worked all day at the Tijeras fence putting on wire varillas. braught up two cartloads of burnt posts,
Mother transplanted the plants she braught from B. Aires.
Pig man braught us 28 bags of bran at .80cts the bag.
Warm day. Macintosh and men, hand cured and cleaned the sheep at the puesto, senelared 10 lambs.
skinned a calf in the pig mans potrero.
Johnie went to Rosario. received from P. Corta on ac of a hundred nov sold to him at 30.$ 1,000.$ and received from Fallenstein from William 2,000,$ sent a giro to Alfred for 500.$ and paid 500.$ to Kerblank Voss y Cia.
Gustaf hauld from the station 3 loads of wood with 4 horse.
Braught up some mares- from the puesto and made the mud for brick makers-.
Johnie came back by the evening train.
Gustof hauled over 3 loads of wood.
Warm day, north east wind. cloudy in the south, hope it rains. Played polo at Las Lomas.
Fine warm day. looked like rain in the evening.
Gustaf hauld over two cart loads of fie wood. and 1 load barrel caña, two wheel barrows, a bag of line and a box of ferreteria. sent a barel of fat to Nass. 200 K.
Two men mending fences. mason white washing peons house.
butchered.
[Likely author: Herman Bz.]
Fine warm day it cleared up. But looks stormey
Johnie and Avilleno went down south to get some horses. Gustaf mended pig pen. Mr Macintosh and Herman went about the camp.
The brickmaker took two wheelbarrows.
Jose and Seja mended horse potrero fence. Butchered a novillo.
Pallovininero shut a tropo of animals in our corrall. Manuel came back last night. Mother went over to Las Lomas on a visit went in little carriage
This morning it rained hard it comenced to rain last night at one oclock.
Gustaf mended the little carriage.
It stoped raining. Herman and Mr Macintosh went in camp.
This afternoon we sent Gustaf and Jose and Seja to work at the pigmans potrero fence. puting two more wires on the fence, in the evening Herman went over to Bertlingks.
Don Geronimo Baiz came to get a tropo of novillos.
Fine warm weather and a heavy fog.
Don Geronimo Baiz took fourthy novillos ours.
Mr Macintosh went to Las Lomas to get the certificate
Gustaf and Seja worked at the fence.
Jose comensed to sowing alfalfa seed at Tirantier. This afternoon Herman went over to the town to get some more sand collering for te maseson. Two tropos of cattle went in our carrall. And some passers stoped here the night.
Gustaf and Sija are still at work on the fence.
fine warm day. We lent the horse cart to brickmaker. maseon is white marking still. Gustaf and Seja are still working at pigmans fence. Mr Macintosh is helping at the fence. Butchered a small calf. Herman went in camp
This morning it was very warm.
We got up all the horses from Pelars puesto to tread around in the pesadero.
We also brough Mr Robsons horses.
butchered a novillo. Gustaf and Seja still at the fence.
This morning it was very cloudy weather
Mr Nash came here and stayed the day
Mr Nash came to see his cattle
This evening Don Pedro Coasta and Don Ricardo Frentera came here and stayed here.
This morning it comenced to rain.
Mr Hugo Macintosh was here he only stayed the night.
Herman took Don Pedro and Ricardo down to the Tijeras and shoed them our novillos. Gustaf and Seja got finished working at the fence
Herman and Macintosh went out in camp.
Fine warm day cloudy.
Mr Nash came and sold all his novillos and cows to Don Pedro at 40. dollars a head.
Ricardo Frentera took 20 of our novillos. And payed us 300. dollars cash.
butchered a calf.
Gustaf went down to the Tijaras and mended the four gates.
Jose is still sowing Seja worked all day long.
fine warm day. Herman sent Gustaf over to the town with horse cart to get some things. And Don Padro Coasta went over to the station in the horse cart. Herman and Manuel and Tomasito went over to Las Rosas and butchered a novillo ovr their
We discharged Jose and wife.
Gustaf fixed the gates of south potreros. Mr Macintosh went all over the potreros. We hired Dona Maria as cook for the poens.
This morning it got cloudy and it rained a little
We brough up some mars and horses for the pesadera. We put Sija at putting earth to the berbeador in south potrero.
Gustaf mended horse potrero gate and pig mans gate Mr Macintosh went to Tijaras Dona Maria comenced to work to day at eigh dollars per month.
This evening Sija got finished with the south potrero berbeador.
Fine weather with a strong north east wind.
Herman went over to the Station to see if their was any thing their for us.
We lent Jose our sorro and the two marchos to take away his familley.
This afternoon a camp fire burnt off fivetty posts and burnt our potrero up by the bige corrall.
Gustaf and Sija worked all day long at the horse potrero bebeador.
Padro the cloaths seller stoped the night. it looks stormmy in the south
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Rained a little in the morning. butchered a cow.
Fine warm day. looked like rain in the morning.
Mother and Miss Macintosh drove to the Tijeras.
Johnie and Avelino came back. did not buy any horses.
went down to Italo and back.
Macintosh played polo at Las Lomas.
Beautiful warm day. Gustaf made the trip to the station brot over 50 posts from Piquets and 4 boxes of soap from Rosario. Seja dug out burnt posts and redug the holes.
butchered a novillio at Pilars puesto.
Herman got Calistro out of jail 8 nats multa.
South wind. cool day. Macintosh Calistro and Seja began to replace burnt posts.
Gustaf making buckets.
Brought up mares and put into pisadero. puesto mares.
Johnie went to Las Leones with Bohtlingks.
P. Costas men came from Rosario to part tomorrow.
Macintosh and men working on fence.
Beautifull day. Received 500.m/n cash from P. Costa on ac of the 100 nov sold. P. Costa parted out 40 of our nov out of No 3 potrero Tijeras and 64 of out of No 2. and put them into south potrero. from south potrero he parted out 100 nov and oxen of these 35 are of the nov we brought from the Tijeras Sept 18. put them into corral over night. Nash sent and took from the Tijeras 14 cows to the Rafango and 6 potrancas.
butchered a novillio.
big camp fire at the puesto.
caught all the little macho pigs to capar tomorrow.
Fine warm day. Macintosh went to Rosario in the afternoon. rode to C. de Gomez. parted out all the potrancas from the puesto 85 and put them to the Tijeras into No 2. put new stallions manada into No 4 potrero and brought up Monte Cristos manada and put into its place into pigmans potrero.
butchered a calf.
Seja and Calistro working on burnt fence.
Mother and Miss Macintosh went to the Santa Clara.
Herman sick in bed.
Gustaf blacksmithing in the afte forenoon. in the afternoon sent him to
station baught 7 barrels and 1 board for 9.00
Warm day. splendid weather all it wants is rain.
Seja and Calistro still at the fence.
Mother went to Cañada de Gomez.
Sent Manuel to Armstrong to fetch the two horses left there.
Gustaf working in the shop. Johnie went to Las Rosas.
Strong north wind. warm. Macintosh came back from Rosario. Mother came back in the evening.
Played polo at Las Lomas. braught up all the sheep from the puesto.
Stormy all day. but no rain. parted out 480 boregas to make another flock. put them into south potrero. cleaned out corralon and put boards down to shear on. sent horse cart to the station to fetch 70 posts baught from the Piquets at 1.20 also got some bagging twine. and 4 shears. Discharged the cook.
Very disagreeable day. strong south wind very dusty.
clipped Macintoshes sheep 126 head.
butchered Ogilvies ox. Man came to capar the potros.
Began to clip our sheep. brought up the mules from the puesto and clipped 7 capared 7 mules machos.
Warm day.
in the evening brought up all the potros from the Tijeras shut them up over night in big corral.
Mrs Dickinson and Mr and Mrs Adams came over to tea.
Very warm day, began to rain quietly in the evening. Hurrah!
clipped sheep all day.
capared 67 potros put them into corrall potrero. broke two.
sent Gustaf to station got 6 blocks of wood for morteros.
1 box of groceries, and 150 tiles.
Cloudy stormy day no rain. Mr Riply here for breakfast.
did not shear in the morning.
butchered a novillio.
Bohtlingks and Piquets were here in the afternoon.
Sent horse cart to Las Leones to fetch a boar. baught for 50$ from Mr Heitz.
Sent Jose rengo to Diaz to fetch Alfred. butchered two sheep.
Fine day. finished shearing. clipped 1043 sheep. parted out all the capons – 352 and 28 of Macintoshes. will keep them seperate. put 6 young ram lambs. bought from Kemmis and 4 of the old rams into one lot of ewes and sent them down to Pigmans potrero. and put the 4 big rams from Kemmis into the 480 ewes into the south potrero. Cart came back with the boar. Don Juans. bucket and cylinder fell into his well. Don Ricardo Frontera took 58 of cattle from the Tijeras and 24 and 18 nov out of the south potrero.
Strong north wind. Macintosh and Johnie played polo at Las Lomas.
Alfred came from Diaz from the Chaco.
In the morning got all Don Juans machinery out of the well set it up.
Strong north wind. capared 1 potro. marked out a sheep dip set a man digging the trench. Macintosh and two men working on the fence.
Alfred and Johnie recorering the potreros.
A big manga of locusts turned up. the plagues of Egypt. history repeats itself. first locusts seen in ten years, "crisis and locusts."
Hot north wind. butchered a small animal. a potro died. sent hurdles to the Tijeras set up a sheep corral at Senns - old quinta to lock up the capons in every night.
finished the fence. got up all the old wire and burnt posts.
Herman came back from Rosario. also C.P. Hall.
Herman baught a lot of wire quick cement etc. paid cash, 360.50$.
Sent horse cart to the station to get cargo.
Alfred left went back to the Chaco. took grip and old jolly along. Very hot north wind all day. in the evening a storm came from the west, and it rained quite heavily.
Miss Macintosh went to Rosario to a dance.
A beautiful day. took Mr Hall to Las Rosas and Las Lomas, a lot of longostos about.
Fine day. Macintosh señalared his lambs. 35.
Marked out a new potrero for the pigs, Eusebio digging the holes. got up four bullocks from the Tijeras. lent a bullock cart and a mule cart to brick makers. to gather leña.
Bagged the wool, not finished.
Mr Hall left.
Fine day. moved Iriondas cattle from potrero No 4 to No 1 put potros into No 4 from No 1. capared 1 stallion. put new stallions manad from No 1 to No 4, capared several bulls in the different potreros. braught up the tropilla from the Tijeras, parted the madrina into Marengos manada.
Johnie arreglared account with Bohtlingk. butchered.
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Geronimo Bias took 100 of Nashes cattle away. twelve of them were of mark. he also took 40 of our novillios already paid for.
Macintosh and men set posts on new pig potrero.
sent cart to the Tijeras with a bucket to replace a broken one.
butchered.
Rained a heavy shower last night.
Mr Davidson mayordomo of the Rafango came to entregar Nashes cattle.
Gustaf working in the shop making a pileta.
Avelino came back last night with 39 horses he baught in the Prov of Cordoba. his brother helped him bring them. he paid for 7 horses at 16.00 - 112 for 2 horses at 15.00 - 30.00, 28 horses at 20.00 - 560.00 1 madrina at 8.00, 1 madrina at 9.00 total 719.00 general expenses and their wages. 111.00
Butcher left.
Sent Manuel to the Germania to get a cohudieto of ours running in the camp there. took it to the Tijeras and capared it.
Very stormy last night but no rain. south wind all day. Avelino domaring. skinned a sheep. Seja and Calistro began to haul bricks up to make pig pens. at noon mason began to work at pens.
Gustaf working in the shop.
Fine day. dogs killed 7 sheep last night in pigmans potrero. finished hauling bricks to pig pen. began to haul to the sheep dip. Macintosh and Johnie making the wood work on the pig pens.
Gustaf working in the shop. butchered a nov.
Sent horse cart to the station in the evening to get some things.
Mr and Mrs Bohtlingk came over in the evening.
braught up mares for the pisadero.
Fine day. north wind. worked all day on pig pens. hauling bricks to sheep dip.
Avelino domaring. Independencia tropa locked in for the night.
Gustaf blacksmithing.
Frenchman (Piquet) came over to tea.
Fine warm day. one of Marengos foals found dead.
Herman went to Las Rosas. Macintosh went to the Rafango.
No polo today.
butchered a big calf.
Sent to the Tijeras for 4 bullocks.
Very hot day. worked on pig pens all day.
two men hauling bricks to the dip.
Avelino domaring.
braught up mares for the pisadero.
Ricardo Frentera took 40 of Nashes cattle from the Tijeras and 60 from the south potrero makes 100 in all. of these 84 are of and 16 of .
Sold to R. Frontera 350 of our chaco nov. at 28.00 he has plaso untill the end of January. to take away. he paid on ac. 500.
Cuello and another buyer were here want to buy Iriondas.
Sent to the station two ox carts and 1 horse cart with the following to send to B.A. to James Ramsay. (com. agent) Mercado de Frutas. 21 bags wool 1.720 K, 1 bag horse hair. 3 bundles – 60 sheep skins. 30 cow hides 5 potro hides. carts brot back sand.
Piquet Lamunieres y Cia and ladies came over in the afternoon.
Sold 410 of A. Iriondas novillio de Jose S. Cequinera at 25.00 apiece. he has up to the end of February 1891 to take away. made out boletas de compra y venta and he paid 1.000. down and is to pay for each troop as it is taken. gave him a receipt for the 1.000.
Braught up all the Chaco nov. from No 3 potrero and put them into the south potrero.
Hauled over 4 loads of sand
Masons began to work on the sheep dip
Very warm day.
Johnie went to C. de Gomez and back today.
had a tooth fixed at the dentists 6.00 damages.
bought 4 collars and harness 33.00 and paid shoemakers bil $322.30
Macintosh and Anacleta working on pig corrall.
Masons and two men working on sheep dip.
skinned one of Mr Nashes novillios snake bite.
Very hot dry weather. Macintosh began to cut alfalfa in the afternoon.
got all the things ready for haying. carts rake etc.
butchered a novillio.
sent horse cart to the station to fetch lime.
Very hot day. Macintosh mowing. began to rake in the afternoon. and pile up hay.
sent cart to the Tijeras to mend cylinder.
Masons working at dip. looks stormy.
Very hot day. Mr Larguia and his brother in law came to breakfast.
Macintosh mowed half a day.
three men worked half a day in the alfalfa.
Took all the redemons and invernada horses to the Tijeras.
Very hot day. a storm came up at noon, but only rained enough to stop the work for a little.
Macintosh finished cutting the little paddock. began to cut in the south paddock
butchered a novillieto.
Mr Maclean here for the night.
Masons working at the sheep dip.
Gustaf working in the shop.
Very foggy daymorning, warm day. could not haul any hay. raked and piled up.
in the afternoon all hands dried and cleaned and dug deeper the well in the south potrero.
butchered a novillio.
Avelino domaring.
Masons working on the dip.
Macintosh mowing all day.
Cequiera and another butcher here for the night.
Very warm stormy day but no rain. worked half a day in the alfalfa.
Very hot day. stormy in the evening.
worked all day in the alfalfa.
butchered a novillieto.
Fine warm day for making hay. all hands moved down into the big potrero to work there. began a stack. put a platform onto the American cart, and started Gustaf hauling hay to the stack back of galpon. Anton stacking. Sent Avelino and Tomasito to look for 5 nov in the Germania camp. found three.
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Very hot cloudy day. worked half a day in the alfalfa, finished the stack at the house.
Mr Nash here. regulated all our invernada accounts with him. (see cash book) Mr Loader also here.
All hands at the alfalfa. broke the pole on the alfa mower.
Ricardo Frontera parted out 50 novillios paid $900. cash down.
butchered a novillio.
Very hot day. all hands working in the alfalfa twelve men.
Received 100 mares potrancas from Mr Nash to invernar put them into potrero No 2,
Tijeras. gave him a receipt for them. they are at a dollar each a month.
sent horse cart to the station, got a load of sand and thirty galvanized iron pipes. used ten to carry water from the well to the sheep dip.
Sent two oxen carts to the station to get sand.
Very hot day. a storm in the afternoon, but no rain.
Colonists cutting wheat everywhere. very thin wheat.
All hands working in the alfalfa all day.
Donald and Hayward took the puesto sheep to Las Lomas. to part the Lomas sheep out.
Butchered a novillio.
Orneros burning the last bricks.
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Very hot sultry day. all hands at the alfalfa.
Macintosh mowed at in afternoon. broke the pole of machine.
Johnie Gustaf and peon finished putting up pipeing water drawing machine and a shade for the pigs.
butchered a novillio.
Avelino domaring.
Very hot day. Old Juan Savedra died last night suddenly. he has worked about 7 years on the place. made him a coffin and buried him in our cemetary.
Santos Cequiera was here today. paid us $1.000.m/n one thousand nats on ac of Iriondas novillios.
he resold them to some B.A. butchers at 28.50
Gustaf making new pole to the mower.
Changed Marengos manada into the stack potrero. put Nashes 26 nov from the stack potrero down to the pigmans potrero. put the butchering animals from horse potrero into stack potrero.
All hands working in the alfalfa.
Very hot south east wind.
Santos Cequiera and the cattle buyer here for the night.
received from S. Cequiera m/n8.000.$ eight thousand nats on ac of the nov sold.
All hands at the alfalfa.
Masons working still at the dip.
butchered a novillio.
J.S. Cequiera took 400 of Iriondas novillios away braught them all up from the Tijeras and put 18 nov into the stack potrero. ten of which belong to Cequiera. he takes them away in a few days. received 250.00 from him which closes the ac. with him 410 novillios at 25.00 – 10.250 of this have to give Irionda the 12.00$ each nov basis money and half of thirteen nats over. leave. 6.50 for each nov porfit. or 18.50 each nov -- $7585. m/n to which have yet to be added the 8 nov and one hide sold. our proffit is 2.665.50
Fine day. R. Frontera took all of Nashes cattle from the Tijeras except 1 cow and from the south potrero all but 5 nov. takes 100 animals in all. he also took 50 of our nov. and paid 1.400. for the last 50 he took. Nashes mayordomo entregared the cattle.
Sent horse cart to the Rafango got the pure bred sow. a present from Mr Nash.
All hands working in the alfalfa.
butchered a novillio
Paid to J. Cuello 200.$ as commision for selling Iriondas novillios.
Johnie went to Rosario. to change a cheque from Mr Nash $2.000. J.S. Cequiera here for the night.
J. S. Cequiera took away his 10 novillios Iriondas.
Johnie came back in the evening. paid to Kublank Voss y Cia. ac in Rosario 1.500$
Braught up the sheep out of South potrero and Solomons mares and tramped the longostos. saltones that are coming toward the estancia.
Braught up the sheep again and tramped the saltones.
senelared 35 lambs.
Butchered a novillio in stack potrero.
Masons still working at the sheep dip.
Set two peons at cutting out the cardo negro at the Tijeras in no 2 potrero
Bohtlingks came over to tea.
Sent 2 ox carts and the wheels of the horse cart to the station to have the wheels mended.
Braught up the sheep from pig mans potrero stamped the saltones in the evening.
Took down part of the brocal at pig well and reset it.
Johnie went to the Rosas.
set a peon at taking the earth away from the sheep dip and putting it into the horse corrall.
very hot weather.
Herman went to C. de Gomez. senelared 50 lambs and cleaned the sheep and fixed their feet.
Set another man at cutting cardo at the Tijeras.
Avelino domaring.
Terrible hot day. Three men killing locusts all day.
Three men cutting cardo at the Tijeras. one man hauling earth away from the dip. Anacleta repairing the bridge.
Gustaf doing some work on machines at the Tijeras.
butchered 2 capons 1 for the house and one for the Tijeras.
Herman came back in the evening, Robson came with him.
Very hot day. men killing locusts all day.
Baught 5 horses and a saddle from Ogilvie for 100.m/n
butchered a novillio.
a tropa locked in over night.
Received 113 cows from Mr. Nash. put them into No 2 Tijeras gave a receipt for them.
Mr Nash sent Mr Patten for the 3.000. we had to take care of for him. returned us the receipt. kept back $1,211.m/n closing our invernada account. gave a receipted bill
Braught up 6 horses for balderos and 3 horses for polo ponies of the Cordobese horses-
Cool day cloudy all day. butchered a novillio.
Received from Mr Nash 125 nov and cows gave a receipt for them. Sent horse cart to the station for some turniquites and 2 barrels of cement. Masons working yet at dip.
Mr Ogilvie came to say good bye he goes to Entre Rios.
Colonists thrashing wheat.
Quite a cold day. drizzled a little.
Received 32 bags of wheat from Bertanio Pietro as 10/00
set posts on fence around sheep dip.
baught and braught from station twenty five algaroba posts at 1.00 apiece.
Mr Fair the mayordomo of the Colonia vieja was here looked at the south potrero. wants to send novillios to invernar.
R. Fronteras men are here for the night.
Very hot day. worked at fence around sheep dip.
Sent bullock carts and two horse carts to receive wheat. braught up 110 bags
Miss Elsie came out to spend Xmas. sent carriage after sundown to C. de Gomez to fetch out Mr Fea.
butchered a novillio.
Warm stormy day but no rain. Mr Fea arrived from Armstrong on horse back. carriage came back empty.
Ricardo Frontera parted out 50 novillios. received from him 1.400.
March 12/93 Ricardo Frontera came and asked for a receipt of this money. explaining that it was to arrange certain business with his partners.
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Very hot sultry day. storm in the evening but no rain.
butchered a capon. took Don Juans balderos to the pig mans potrero. and replace them with new ones (Cordobeses).
Received wheat from Colonists.
Mr Wacey here for the night. three men killing locusts.
Warm day. Received from Mr Ray of the Estancia Schönberg. 248 novillios to invernar at 1.00 a month each. put them into the south potrero.
butchered a novillio
Very hot sultry day wish it would only rain.
Masons still working at sheep dip.
Herman and two bullock carts receiving wheat from colonists 10/00
Mr Fea left for Rosario. took all the cattle out of the pig mans potrero 113 head. of which 72 are calves and 26 novillios and the rest 15 are heifers and novillietos .
Received more wheat.
butchered a novillio.
All hands out all day fighting langostas (saltones)
Very sultry weathere. a fine storm in the evening.
rained quite hard.
Sold 157 bags of wheat to Bohtlingk at 7.25 the 100 Kilos. made a boleto.
Macintoshes brother came out from Rosario.
All hands killing locusts. burning them with wheat straw.
© Peter Benitz (Benitz Family)