Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-08-29
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps sums up
some Of the things enterprising women
have done. a..
In the capital Of q stout-hearted, II
not very broad-shouldered little New
England State, M of the best black
smiths In the city Is said to be a young
woman. She works side by side with
her father, Of whom, she acquired her
trade. Il All ~ ~,
In one Of the Territories we find
two young women, sisters, running q
blacksmith shop upon their own &C
count. In the crude condition Of the
region the undertaking was US neces-
sary as It seemed natural, and, as they
have made 1t, respectable. The girls
dress In a Bloomer costume, and shoe
o horse with ease and skill. .
think It Is Detroit which boasts Of
the woman who took out a contract
for macadamizing q road, engaged her
workmen, kept them to time, and con-
Quoted them and her road safely and
successfully through her agreement.
The same woman, If I am rightly In
formed, has more than once moved
barns and other buildings on contract,
with composure and despatch.
In Wisconsin two girls, whose works
rise up and call them blessed, have for
six years managed a farm Of n hun
dred acres, and supported their father
and mother from Its proceeds.
The same State estimates that there
are In all two thousand women at
work this year In Its generous fields.
Iowa and Indiana contain two hun
bred women working farms on their
own account successfully.
In one of the largest cities In the
country a "young, pretty and accom-
pllshed " lady has opened an extensive
boot and shoe store. Her clerks are
all young women, and her trade Is re-
ported to be of the briskest.
or a woman In Washington Terri
tory we learn that she has ustreturned
from a trip to China, where she car.
ried a cargo Of lumber. "She Is said
to be sharper" observes the ource OF
information, "than any other mill
owner on Puget Sound, and got at
least SO more per 1000 feet for lum-
Der than was yer paid at Hong Kong
before"
OF an extensive dry goods establish
ment In New Jersey, we are told that
It Is managed entirely by two ladies,
and that their credit In the largo busi-
ness centres Is Of the soundest and
highest. We are given to understand
that they set up business eight years
ago on a capital Of from $1,000 to $2,-
O6O, and that they control q stock now
worth from $40, 900 to $50, 900 In ladies'
furnishing and ffncy goods.
Ayoung woman In Lewiston, Maine,
has been lifting herself, under excel
lent promise, for the profession OF a
dentist. In the heavier work, which
requires active muscles and steady eye,
her employer has long since been &C
customed to call upon her for very et-
fective assistance. :.
A ladies' life insurance company, all
the employees OF which are to be wo-
men, Is forming In London.
And here we run against another
Wisconsin woman (surely that ener-
getic State Is the woman's Earthly
Paradise") who supports q sick hus-
band and his old grandfather of from
q forty-acre farm.
And again from New Jersey. What
says one of her leading papers? "Our
entire newspaper Is the work Of young
ladies, and every type Is set by them
advertisements and all-and a young
girl Is the "maker-up." And we have
no foreman In the newspaper rooms, .
young lady acting In that capacity.
70 the above we may add, for Phil
adelphia, that one Of the largest hotels
on Chestnut street Is owned and man
aged ny q woman that a woman IL
principal Of a boys grammar school,
and q leading teacher in IL Of the
most flourIshlng school sections Of this
city ; and that on Chestnut, Eighth,
and other streets, there are several
large stores owned and managed ex-
clusively by women. In n store, OH
Chestnut street, owned by n woman,
that we know OF, q business amounting
to considerably over 500, 900 q year Is
done.-Phiadelphfa Ledger.