St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-27


showed under, and has not been seen or
heard of since. Another girl came West
about four years ago and took up a
homestead claim on Middle creek. Mat
terS progressed so favOrably that she
proved up on time the limit allowed by
law, $40 acres. and then started in to
raise sheep. In this venture the gods
favored her, until the young and enter
prlSlng damSel was compelled to have
an overSeer for her fiOeks and herds.
IhereupOn she sat down and wrote to
her lazy brother in the East, who was
out of job, paid his fare out and made
him oYerseer.
Now it happened that the adjoining
claim was owned by a young bachelor
who also had great many young lambs,
etc, in his own right. The two minded
their ttOckS in company for some time,
and finally agreed to join fortunes. In
stead of two farms of GAO acres each,
these happy wOol-growerS now control
1.2SO acres of the richest land in the
NorthWeSt,and their fiocks roam in COM
pany as they use to do, only now they
bear one brand instead of two, as of
yOre.
AS matter of fact, there are between
1,500 and 1000 ladies in the Northwest
to-day who are Interested IN one way or
another in ranch and stock property.
Many of them come right out and ac-
knowledge their brands over their own
names, while many others again are in
tereSted in stock running under other
names, and in which they are virtually
silent partners. The history of their
success, too, is not so very strange.
Beginning years ago with few mich
cows, living within their income, and
attending tn q InG0dn
of time. with no particular or special
drawbacks to speak of, is bound to
make, sooner or later, wealthy women
of them all.
One of the most remarkable instances
OF this kind is the experience of Miss
Catherine Wilkins, Of 0wyhee county,
Idaho, popularity known as the Idaho
Horse Queen"
When she was baby her father in
vested $40 for her in filly, and from
this simple beginning all her subsequent
wealth has come. Now that kitty is
OF age, she finds her time pretty well
occupied in looking after her large
band of PercherOnS. MOrganS, Hamble-
tOnianS and NormanS, 1000 800 all told,
besides a large herd of cattle, which
also belongs to her in her own right.
Still her taste runs to horses, as there is
life connected with the ranching of
them has something decidedly fascinat-
ing about it. Again, fine, fat steer on
the range is worth about $50, while on
the other hand a good horse is worth at
the very least, 500, and as an animal,
so far as range and feed and care are
concerned, one horse, successfully
raised, represents five head of beef
stock, and all for One-tifth the trouble Of
handling five steers. Miss Wilkins en-
ploys about thirty-five herders and cow
boys to round up and look after her
stock.
Girls of all ages, from twelve years to
sixty. are ruStlerS in this latitude. In
Valley Creek is the ranch of W. n.
Miller, who Semi-annually rounds up
and cuts out from his herd cattle Suita-
bic for beef.
On all of these trips the thrifty ranch
man is accompanied by his twelve-year-
old daughter, who assists generally in
rounding up the herd and in keeping
her father company. She is fearless
rider, this twelve-year- old child, and
can go Scampering across the prairie on
the back of her beautiful cayuse pony
at a rate of speed that would astoniSh
some of our modern paper fox hunters
in the East.
On the other hand, a sturdy matron
of some fifty summers, whose husband
was away in the mountains prospect
ing, came riding into Livingston a
short time ago bound on a mission of
important business. From her saddle
bow hung a Winchester rifle, while the
saddle pockets were filled with ammuni-
ton. Evidently this lady was emf
nently able to care for herself under all
circumstances.
The journey in and out was over 100
miles, which she performed successfully
alone and unaided, without company of
any kind save her horse.
In answer to the popular book enti-
tied ''What Can a Woman Do?' | need
only refer to the case of Mrs. Ira Nc
Lane, who recently bid for and secured
a number of Montana mail contracts.
These contracts were no small pOta-
toes, but, in fact, plumS Of considerable
size and number ng just twenty-three.
For instance, one contract is to carry
the mail from Butte to Walkerville, an
other from Butte to MeadervIlle, and so
on, all of them in the most populOuS
portion of Montana, in the mining dis
trictS and over rough country, and all
for a period of four years. The lady is
bound to succeed, for she has enter
prise, grit, pluck and perseverance to
back her up. While speaking of mining,
etc. there is q curious character in the
NOgO mining district. who is as black as
the ace of spades, and yet she is making
fortune hand over fist, nOtwithstand-
ing her race, color and previous cOndi-
ton OF servitude." Minnie RinggOld is
her name, and this is what the Rocky
Mountain uuSDandman has to say about
her:
News comes from Yogo that the Gar
field lode is looking very promising.
This lode is the property of Mile Ring
gold. the celebrated African prospector,
by whom it was discovered. Mile is
now citizen of White Sulphur Springs
and is earning living by washing; but
she spends the summer III the mount
aims, and handles the pick and shovel
with as much vigOr and deXterity as
man. She was the pioneer woman Of
NOgO. and ran the first hotel at that
place, and has, by economy and close
application to business, come into DOS
session of some very valuable proper
ties. and is in reality to-day bonanza
queen"
This item will serve to show that the
field OF enterprise in the Northwest is
open to everybody, men and women
alike, and that it only requires conf
dence and application to succeed in any
undertaking. The truth of the matter
is that there are more feminine specu-
latOrs. prOspectOrs and general bust
ness women in the great West and
Northwest than there is any idea of.
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