Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-22
SMART WESTERN WOMEN.
Great Opportunities for Plucky Girls t
 Become Rich Cattle Queens.

Become Rich Cattle Queens. Women have lots of enterprise, grit and | get-up about them, if they are only given half 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 stock growers who own their herds in fee and manage their own business to suit themselves. These ladies, writes Fort Davis (Tex.) ] | correspondent, are as wide-awake and live | ly and know good business bargain when they run up against one just as well as a horrld man does.
 We have in Texas two ladies who are | perhaps, the largest individual sheep and stock owners on the continent. Down in Uvala County lives the Widow Callahan, who owns something like 50, 900 sheep in her | own right. These are divided into bands ot about 1000 each. with Q "pastora' for every flock and "bcssero" over the whole busi. ness. Their grade is fine, cross between the straight Mexican and the Vermont Meri- no, and all branded with the lady's own particular trademark. She employs some thing 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 in- deed sight worth seeing. There was a genuine cattle 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 remarkable one. Although able to buy and sell some of our Eastern millionAires and nabobs who ride in fine carriages be- hind spanking teams, yet this lady will not own carriage of her own, preferring to ride the free-and-easy style of a cowboy on horseback. It 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 husband, who was at the time a stock man of considerable means. When he had accumulated herd of 40, 900 fine cattle, more or less, the gentleman suddenly died. Gifted with rare business ability, hls wife at once took charge of the affairs, did her own buying, selling and hiring, and in @ very short time had doubled the commercial strength of her late husbands herd.
 A San Antonio gentleman tells the fol lowing story of his experlence with prom inent cattle queen, who has her head quarters somewhere in an earthly paradise in Southwestern Texas She was at the time alone in San Antonio and stopping at one of the frst-class hotels. She gave her name to the hotel clerk, but requested that 1t be not placed upon the register, and that ii any newspaper men came to see her, or inquired for her, to say tiatly that she was ''not in"
 "I have been awfully persecuted by those fellows" said she, land one of them even had the cheek to surreptitiously obtain my photograph and publish cut of it in the Philadelphia Times. l won't see any of them, l tell you"
 She deposited in the hotel safe a jewelry box containing diamonds, etc., valued at about s10O,0O0. Her studded watch, brace lets, rings, etc, were sparkling with jew els. She called at one of the dry-goods es- tablishments and selected dress pattern of terra-cotta slul, style ottoman, with vel vet trimming to match, at $24 per yard. Her wardrobe is as extensive as elegant, comprising innumerable dresses, silk wrap. pers 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 charitable in judging her. After a royal time, in which she spent moro money than dozen men would earn in year, she boarded train and sped southward to tue ranch and range she called home.
 Even young girls born and bred in the East, who have been nurtured in luxury and raised amid all the softening Influence of wealth, when they stsike tue free, happy ozone of the Western prairies become elated and joyful, and loath to return to civilization and all that civilization offers.