Crossword-Solution: SALADERO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Once at Madrid I received a letter from the sister’s son of Pindamonas, dated from the prison of the Saladero.

Forgues, and which, after the _saladero_ of Baron Liebig in Uruguay, is the most extensive in the valley of the Rio de la Plata.

Steaming on, we pass or meet several small river-craft engaged in the coasting-trade between Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and the towns up the river, until we land at an estancia, where cows, horses, and sheep are bred and nurtured: the cows and bullocks chiefly for the hides and meat, disposed of as already described at a saladero; sheep for their wool; while horses are reared for every possible purpose, and are turned to use whether alive or dead.

Originally the cattle were nearly all of the long-horned Spanish breed and of little value for their meat, except to the saladero establishments.

And in the saladero, or the "salting-tub," as the prison was called, it was notorious that there were malefactors who gave lessons in forgery, and who positively utilized their cells as convenient head-quarters from which to prey on the unwary public.