Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-07-04
SMART WOMEN IN THE wrer
Great Opportunities for Pluck, o.,
Become Rich Cattle Queen. I

Women have lots of enterpris. -
and get-up about them. if tho sH
only given half a chance to do ,g are
would like to do. Ney
/ know it will be astoDist;
some. but it is nevertheless trne
Colorado alone has over one tb@r-at
female stockgrowers who own ' ~
herds in fee and manage their ana
business to suit themselves. TT
ladies are wide awake and livalv '35
know a good business bargain nv
they run up against one. lust as uot
as a horrid man does.
We have in Texas two ladies ,-l
are, perhaps, the largest iudiyidG.i
sheep and stock owners on the cone
nent. Down in Uvalde county Fve,
the Widow Callahan. who owns son,o
thing like 10000 sheep in her oy..
right. These are divided into banJ-
of 1000 each, with 'pastoran ~
every flock and a "bosseron over H..
whole business. Their grade Is line
cross between the straight AIeyia.n
and the Vermont merino, and an
branded with the lady's own particn.
lar trademark. She EMPLOYS some-
thing like forty hands (mostlv Men.
cans), and her annual clip Of WOO i
really startling. When the longtr
of wagons start out each spring ana
fan for market, loaded down with tsa
widows wool, it is indeed sf0b-
worth seeing. There was genuine
cattle queen living southeast Of here
in Neuces county, not long since. who
has since become famous as Mrs. Roo.
ers, the great herd-owner of South.
western Texas. This lady is probably
worth a round million of dollars. ana
her history has been a remarkable one
Although able to buy and sell some Of
our Eastern millionaires and nabobs
who ride in fine carriages behind
spanking teams, yet this lady WI not
own carriage of her own, preferrinp
to ride the free-and-easy style of the
cowbow on horseback. 1t is hard TO
believe the fact, when she goes dash
ing and galloping over the prairie
after an unruly steer that Mrs Rog-
ers is on the shady side of fifty. Mrs
Rogers came to Neuces a long time
ago with her husband, who was ut the
time a stock man of considerable
means. When he had accumulated
herd of 10000 fine cattle, more or less.
the gentleman suddenly died Gifted
with rare business ability, his wife at
once took charge of affairs. did her
own buying, selling and hiring, and in
a yerv short time had doubled the
commercial strength Of her late hus-
bands herd.
A San Antonio gentleman tells the
following story Of his experience with
a prominent cattle queen, who has her
headquarters somewhere in an earthly
paradise in Southwestern Texas She
was at the time alone in San Antonio
and stopping at one of the irst-class
hotels, She gave her name to the
hotel clerk, but requested that it be
not placed upon the register, and that
if any newspaper men came to see her,
or inquired for her, to say fatty that
she was mot in
Il have been awfully prosecuted by
those fellows said she, "aud one Of
them even had the cheek TO surrepti-
tiously obtain my photograph and
publish a cut of it in the Philadelphia
Times. | won't see any of them, tell
you
She deposited in the hotel safe a
! jewelry box containing diamonds, &c,
valued atabout 100000. Her studded
watch, bracelets, rings. &c, were
sparkling with jewels She called at
one Of the dry-goods establishments
and selected dress pattern OF terra
Gotta silk, style ottoman, with velvet