The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-04-04
SMART WOMEN IN THE WEST.
Great Opportunities for Plucky Girls to
Become Rich Cattle Queens,

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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 a chance to do as 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 own business to suit
themselves. These ladies are wide awake
and lively and know good business
bargain when they run up against one,
Just as we'll as a horrid man does We
have in Texas two ladies who are, per-
haps, the largest individual sheep and
stock owners on the continent. Down in
Uvalde county lives the Widow Callahan,
who owns something like $4,000 sheep in
her own right. These are divided into
bands of about 1000 each. with "pasto.
ra" for every flock and "bossero" over
the whole business. Their grade is fine,
cross between the Mexican and the
Vermont merino, all branded with the
lady's own particular trademark. She
employs something like forty hands
mostly Mexicans) 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, sight worth
seeing. There was q genuine cattle
queen living southeast Of here, in Nelices
County, not long since, who has since
become famous as Mrs. Rogers, the great
herd owner Of Southwest Texas. This
lady is probably worth a round million of
dollars, and her history has been a re-
markable 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 carriage other own, preferring
to ride the free. and-easy style of cow
bog on horseback. 1t is hard to believe
the fact, when she goes dashing and
galloping over the prairie after an unruly
steer, that Mrs. Rogers is on the shady
side OF fifty. Mrs. Rogers came to
Neuces long time ago with her hus.
band, who was ct 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 very short time had doubled the
commercial strength ofher late husbands
herd. A San Antonio gentleman tells
the following story of his experience
with 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
stopped at one Of the 6rs!.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 seq her, or inquired for her, to say
fatty that she was "not in" II have
been awfully prosecuted by those fellows" f."
said she, "and one of them even had the
cheek to surreptitiously obtain my photo
graph and publish cut of it in the
Philadelphia Times. J. won't see any of
them, I tell you She deposited i'll the
hotel safe g jewelry box containing
diamonds, &C., valued at about 100000.
Her studded watch, bracelets, rings, &C.,
were sparkling with jewels. She called
at once on the dry goods establishments
and selected a dress pattern ofterra. Gotta
silk, style ottoman, with velvet trimming
to match, at s24 per yard. Her ward
robe is as extensive as elegant, compris-
ing innumerable dresses, silk wrappers,
wraps of all styles and shades imaginable.
The only blight on her life is the sting
ofdivorce which hangs over her; but as
the lady was purely right in the case. and
shows her entire ability to take care of
herself, the world will be charitable in
Judging her. After royal time, in
which she spent more money than a
dozen men would earn in year, she
boarded train and sped southwark 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 softeDing infn.
ence of wealth, when they strike the free,
happy ozone of the Western prairies
become slated and joyful, and loath> to
return to civilization and all that civiii-
cation Offers Davis 7sS, Letter.