Star Tribune Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:35:01 GMT
South St. Paul: The last roundup
As the last stockyard closes in South St. Paul, an industry that brought the whiff of money and gave identity disappears. ... Outside, yard men in tall boots show their true grit, sorting anxious cattle for buyers who will take them to slaughter. Wielding paddles, they shoo the cattle through corridors of clapboard pens now gray from weather and age. The ground is wet and pungent, reeking of an odor familiar to South St. Paul residents since 1888. "To some of us it's the smell of money," said city employee Deb Griffith, a longtime resident whose father and grandfather worked in the stockyards. "To the rest of us, it just smells."
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