St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10
New Orleans Times.

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their arrival from the states, from timid
| frightened and half-scared creatures
they soon blossom out into self-support
| ing land-holders ond farmers, and ever
| go so far as to run for political offices
| One girl not far from here came to Mon
| tana from a Chicago dry goods store
| where she was getting a miserable pit
lance as saleSgirl for sixteen hours
work pay, and working six days ou
of the seven. She first went to Boze
man as school teacher. From schoo
| teacher she came boldly out as candi
date for county school superintendent
for which office ''brute of man. was
her only opponent. Beauty and cheek
won the race, however, and the man
was awfully showed under. and has moi
been seen or heard of since. Another
girl came West about four years ago and
| took up a homestead claim at Middle
Creek. Matters progressed so fayorably
that she proved up on time the limit al,
lowed by law, GAO acres, and then started
in to raise sheep. In this venture the
gods favored her. until the young and
enterprising damSel was compelled to
have an Overseer for her flockS and
herds. ThereupOn she sat down and
wrote to her lazy brother in the East,
who was out of job. paid his fare out
and made him overseer. rs
Now it happened that the adjoining
claim was owned by bachelor, who
also had great many lambs, etc., in
his own right. The two minded their
fiocks in company for some time, and
finally agreed to join fortunes. Instead
of two farms of $40 acres each these
happy wool-growerS now control ], 2S0
acres of the richest land in the North
west, and their tiocks roam incompauy
as they used to do, only now they bear
one brand instead of two, as of yore.
AS matter of fact, there are between
fisteen hudred and two thousand ladies
in the Northwest to-day who are inter
eSted in one way or another in ranch
and stock property. Many of them
come right out and acknowledge their
brands over their own names, while
many others again are interested in
stock running under other names, and
in which they are virtually silent part
ners. The history of their success, too,
is not so very strange. Beginning a
few years ago with few mich cows,
living within their income, and attend
ing strictly to business. a decade of
time, with no particular or special draw
backs to speak of, is bound to make.
sooner or later, wealthy women of them
all One of the most remarkable in
stances of this kind is the experience
of Miss Catherine Wilkins, of Owyhee
county, Idaho, popularity known as the
sIdaho Horse Queen"
When she was a baby her father in
vested $40 for her in a 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, Hambleton-
besides large herd of cattle, which
also belongs to her in her own right.
Still her taste runs to horses, as there is
more money in it, and the wild, free life
connected with the ranching of them
has something decidedly fascinating
about it. Again, fine, fat steer on the
range is worth about $50, while, on the
other hand, good horse is worth at the
very least 800, and as an animal. so
far as range and feed and care con-
cerned, one horse successfully raised
represents five head of beef stock, and
all for one-fifth the trouble of handling
five steers. Miss Wilkins employs about
thirty-five herders and cowboys to round
up and look after her stock.
Girls of all ages, from twelve to sixty,
are ruStlerS in this latitude. In Valley
Greek Is the ranch of w. n. Miller, who
semi-annually rounds up and cuts out
from his herd cattle suitable 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 a 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, sturdy matron of
some fifty summers, whose husband was
away in the mountains prospecting,
came riding into LivingtOn 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 ammunition.
Evidently this lady was eminently able
to care for herself under all circum-
stances. .-.-,- s.-~-s
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 en-
titled "What Can Woman Do?" need
Lane, who recently bid for and secured
number of Montana mail contracts.
These contracts were no small potatoes,
but, in fact, plumS of considerable
size and numbering just twenty-three.
For instance, one contract is to carry
the mail from Butte to Walkerville,
another from Butte to Meaderyille, and
so on, all of them in the most populous
portion of Montana, in the mining
districts and over rough country, and
all for period of four years. The lady
is bound to succeed, for she has enter
prise, grit, pluck and perseverance to
etc, there is curious character in the
Yogo mining district, who is as black
as the ace of spades, and yet she is
making a fortune hand over fist, not
WithStanding her race, color and pre-
vious condition of servitude." Mile
RinggOld is her name, and this is what
the Rocky Mountain HuSbandman has
to say about her:
t".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. Miliie is
now citizen of White Sulphur Springs,
and is earning living by washing; but
she spends the summer in the mountains
and handles the pick and shovel with as
much vigor and dexterity as man. She
was the pioneer woman of YOgo, and
ran the first hotel in that place, and has
by economy and close application to
business come into possession of some
very valuable properties, and is in real
ity to-day bonanza queen"
This item will serve to show that the
field of enterprise in the Northwest is
is open to everybody, men and women
alike, and that it only requires con-
fidence and application to succeed in
any undertaking. The truth of the
matter is that there are more feminine
spectators, prospectors and general
business women in the great West and
Northwest than there is any idea of.