St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
sENoRTTA PAcrFIcA coUs1No.

She has fleet of eight iron steamships
of capacities varying from 2. 600 to 5000
tons, built in England, and used to carry
the coal on the coast as far as Panama and
around the Straits of Magellan to Buenos
Ayres and MOnUevideo. At Lota she has
copper and silver smelling works. besides
the coal mines. and her coaling ships bring
ore down the coast as return cargo from
upper Chill, Peru and Ecuador. while those
that go to Buenos Ayres bring back beef
and -four and merchandise for the con-
sumption OF her people. Nine. CouSino
owns every house in the town of Lota, and
every one. of its six or seven thousand in
habitants is dependent upon her for sup
port. In COrOnel her proprietorship is not
quite so complete. but nine-tenths of the
people, and there are 5000 there, are on
her pay rolls. She has brick kilns and pot
terleS as well as smelters, and makes all
the tiles and earthenware used on the west
coast 1t is said that she pays out from
500, 900 to $i20, 900 month as wages in
these two towns. most of which comes back
into her pocket through the supply stores,
where she sells food and clothing to her
own people.
Although LOta is only mining town, as
dirty and smoky as any of its counterparts
in Pennsylvania. it is the widows favorite
mansion that will cost million dollars at
least. Her mansion stands in the center of
what is undoubtedly the finest private park
in the world, including $50 acres of land.
laid out in the most elaborate manner
filled with statuary, fountains, gr0ttoes,
caves, cascades and no end of beautiful
trees and plants. The improvement of the
natural beauty of the place is said to have
cost Sonora CouisnO nearly 81, 600, 0O0 and
she has force of thirty gardeners constantly
at work. The superintendent is a Scotch
man. and he told me his orders were to
make the place paradise without regard
to cost. In this park there are many wild
animals and domesticated pets, not only
natives of the country. but imported from
Sther lands, and the flowers are wonderful.
She has another park and palace an hours
drive from Santiago. the finest ''eStanca''
or plantation in Chill, perhaps in all South
America. and / do not know of one in North
America or Europe that will equal it. This
Is called ''Macul," and the estate stretches
from the boundaries of the city of Santiago
far into the COrdilleraS, whose glistening
caps of everlasting snow mark the limits of
the Widows mite. In the valleys are her
helds OF grain, her orchards and her vine
yards, while in the foothills of the noun
talnS her flockS Of sheep and herds of cattle
feed. Here she gives employment to 800
or 400 men, all organized under the direc-
ton OF superintendent, most of whom are
Scotchmen. She has one American in her
employ at ''Macul," whose bushes is that
OF q general farmer, but his time is mostly
occupied in teaching the natives on the place
how to operate labor-saying agricultural
machines.
The vineyard of "Macul' supplies nearly
all of the market of Chill with claret and
sherry wines, and the cellar on the place.
an enormous building, 500 feet long by 100
wide. is kept constantly full Nine.
Cousino makes her own bottles, but imports
her labels from France. On this farm she
has some very valuable imported stock.
both cattle and horses. and her racing
stable is the most extensive and successful
i'll South America. The madam takes
great interest in the turf attends every
racing meeting in Chill. and always bets
very heavily upon her own horses. At the
last meeting her winnings are reported at
more than 500. 900 outside of the purses
won by her horses. which are always di-
vided among the employees of the stables.
In addition to ''Macul" she has another
large estate about thirty miles from Santi-
ago. but gives it very little attention, and
has not been there for number of years.
In the city she has two large and fine
houses, one Of them being the former resi-
dence of Henry Meiggs, the California fugi-