The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12
SMART WOMEN IN THE WEST.
Great Opportunities for Plucky Girls to
Become Rich Cattle Queens.

Women have lots of enterprise. grit
and get-up about them, if they are
only given half chance to do us they
would like to do.
[ know it will be astonishing TO
some. but it is nevertheless true that
| Colorado alone has over one thousand
female stockgrowers who own their
herds in fee and manage their ewn
business to suit themselves. These
ladies are wide awake and lively and
know good business bargain when
they run up against one. just rs well
rs horrid man does.
| We have in Texas two ladies who
are, perhaps, the largest individual
sheep and stock owners on the CONT
nent. Down in Uvalde county lives
the Widow Callahan, who owns some
thing like $4,000 sheep in her own
right. These are divided into bands
of 1000 each, with ''pastora" for
every flock and e'bossero'' over the
whole business. Their grade is fine,
cross between the straight Mexican
and the Vermont merino, and all
branded with the lady's own particu-
lar trademark. She employs some
thing like forty hands (mostIy Mexi-
cans), and her annual clip of wool is
really startling. When the long trains
of wagons start out each spring and
fall for market, loaded down with the
widows wool, it is indeed q sight
worth seeing. There was genuine
cattle queen living southeast of here,
in Neuces county, not long since, who
has since become famous as Mrs. Rog-
ers, the great herd-owner of South
western Texas. This lady is probably
worth round million of dollars, and
her history has been 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 will not
own a carriage of her own, preferring
to ride the free-and-easy style of the
coWbow on horseback. It is hard to
bel4eve 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 at the
time 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 very 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 first-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 "not in"
Il have been awfully prosecuted by
them even had the check TO surrepti-
tiously obtain my photograph and
publish q 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
trimming to match, at $24 per yard.
Her wardrobe is as extensive as ele-
giant, comprising innumerable dresses,
silk wrappers and wraps of all styles
and shades imaginable. The only
blight on her life is the sting of d.
vorcc which hangs over her; but as
the lady was purely right in this case,
and shows her entire ability to take |
care of herself, the world will be chart |
table in judging her. After royal
time, in which she spent more money
than dozen men would earn in a year,
she boarded train and sped south
ward to the ranch and range she calls |
home.
Even young girls born and bred in
the East, who have been nurtured in
luxury and raised amid all the soften
ing influence of wealth, when they |
strike the free, happy ozone of the
Western prairies become elated and
joyful, and 10th to return to civiliza-
ton and all that civilization offers.-
Fort Dn1uic Tier \ Letter.