St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-15
SMART WOMEN IN THE WEST.
Great Opportunities for Piucky
Girls to Become Rich Cattle

Great Opportunities for Plucky
Girls to Become Rich Cattle
Queens.
Fort Davis CTex) Letter.
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.
L know it will be astonishing to some,
out it is nevertheless true, that Col
orado alone has over one thousand fe-
male stockgrowers who own their herds
IN Zee and manage their own business
to suit themselves. These ladies are
wide awake and lively, and know a
good business bargain when they run
up against one just as we'll as horrid
| man does.
We have in Texas two ladies who are,
perhaps, the largest individual sheep
and stock owners on the continent.
Down in Uvalde county lives the Widow
Callahan, who owns something like So
600 sheep in her own right. These are
divided into bands of about 1000 each,
with 'pastora" for every flock and
''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 particular trademark. She en-
ploys something like forty hands (most-
" 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 genuine cat
tie queen living southeast Of here, in
NeuceS county, not long since, who has
since become famous as Mrs. Rogers, the
great herd-owner of Southwestern
Texas. This lady is probably worth a
round million of dollars, and her history
has been a remarkable one. Although
able to buy and sell some of our East
! ern mlllionaireS and nabobs who ride
| in fine carriages behind spanking teams,
| yet this lady will not own carriage OF
| her own. preferring to ride the free
| and-eaSy style of cowboy on horse
back. 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 q
long 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 com
mercial strength of her late husbands
herd.
A San Antonio gentleman tells the
following story of his experience with
prominent cattle queen, who has Der
headquarters somewhere in an earthly
paradise in Southwestern Texas. She
was at that 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 mot in"
Il have been awfully prosecuted by
those fellows" said she, land one Of
them even had the cheek to surrepti-
tiOuSly obtain my photograph and pub
lish cut of it in the Philadelphia
Times. l won't see any of them, tell
you"
She deposited in the hotel safe a
jewelry box containing diamonds, etc,
valued at about 100000. Her studded
watch, bracelets, rings, etc., were spark
ling with jewels. She called at
one of the dry goods establish
mentS and selected a dress pat
tern of terra Gotta silk, style ottoman,
with velvet trimming to match, at s24
per yard. Her wardrobe is as extensive
as elegant, comprising innumerable
dresses, silk wrappers and wraps of all
styles and shades imaginable. The
only blight on her life is the sting of
divorce 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 charit-
able in judging her. After a royal
time, in which she spent more money
than dozen men would earn in 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 influences of wealth, when they
strike the free, happy ozone of the
Western prairies become elated and
joyful and loath to return to civilization
and all that civilization offers.