I remember Choice Mint very well as I worked at Remitall,for a month each summer, when I was 15 and 16. Choice Mint was considered by many in that day as being a very big bull. He actually was bigger than he appears in the picture posted here. He was very thick and when he sold in the Remitall dispersal, I think he weighed more than 2200 lbs.
As a side note, after the Remitall Shorthorn dispersal, Louis Latimer asked me if I would like to help his son Gary deliver cattle. I asked my dad, and he agreed. I think of this today and wonder if they were crazy, as Gary and I had just turned 16, and had both just got our drivers licences. We headed out with a Fargo truck with a special built 34 ft box on it. We delivered the Shorthorns and also had the first Polled Herefords that went to Louada Manor Farms at Peterborough, ON. Not only did we deliver cattle, but we also purchased bulls all the way down to Quebec and then picked them up all the way back home. We had loads both ways. In all we travelled over 5000 miles, with no credit cards, and only some cash in our pockets. Remitall had a policy back then, that if you purchased a herd sire from them, they would buy back sons of them as yearlings, and they moved most of them to Idaho and Oregon. Lots of memories...
If you can supply some more information on these bulls, I think there may be some interest for them. I am not afraid to use a horned bull, and I think some of my best cows have horned breeding close up in their pedigrees.
