The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-19
A CALIFORNIA GIRL WONDER,


1t""H'n oNE, bfoakh ColtH, J.ioDrD'lErS, or
Plays the Plano Equally Well.
Tho women in California who occupy
places In business and tho fields, mo
nopoliaod everywhere else by man, havo
become notable, says q writer in tho
Now York Sun. In San Diego county
there arc several young woncn from
Now England who have become among
the best managers OF grain ranches in
tho state; in tho Pomona Valley two
women are successfully running GtoCk
farms; In Riverside there arc seven
women orange growers, and at San
PGdrortho most prosperous manager OF
tho fishing boats and catches OF fish is Il
handsome brunette Of twenty-five years.
Monterey county boasts oil q young
woman who can fill tho place OF Il
vaqucr0 US well US any young man who
ever rode in q saddle. ShO Ia but
twenty-three years old, and has made u
fortune in the cattle and horse business.
Her name Is Margaret Rogers, and
she ia % popular, artistic and talented
as she Is buslnesslike and e%ntorprising.
Sho rounds up the cattle on her fathers
md her W ranches, personally sOes TO
tho branding, marks the calves, scpa-
ratos tho mavericks, corrals tho colts
and sheep, and ID a6lo to pillow, SOW.
and run q harvesting machine, yet alio
r%oloices that she is not an Amazon. In
tho parlor at hor fathers great old
fashioned ranch house she Is n delight
iul hostess. She plays the piano well,
Is neat at fancy work, and has u we'll
selected library OF several hundred
books. A medal that she won in n
ladies' seminary at Oakland tor pro-
tioiency in Latin and English literature
hangs upon the library wall.
Miss Rogers makes all the plows for
ranch work on her own and her faith
cr's properties; she bus tho markets ior
grain. beef and pork ut her fingers
ends, and makes all tho sales and con
tracts on the place. Last season she
went to Portland, Orc, to buy several
combination harveBters Tor ranch use at
IN expense OF $500, because she did
not find tho machines she wanted in
California.
The Rogers homo Is near King City,
about l6O miles south OF San Francisco.
Robert I. Rogers, the father Of Miss
Margaret, came to Monterey county
from England ior hia health in 1876.
Ho was then nearly dead with cor
sumption, blu! has enjoyed comparative
health for twelve years. Mr.. Rogers
embarked in stock raising at once;
there was no railroad near, and the
country was ono Of magnificent dis
tnnccs'' ior horseback or wagon travel.
Fences were unknown. and tho nearest
towns were Salinas and C%astroyille.
Mr.. Rogers had an aversion to riding,
but his second daughter took to horscs
as q duck to wafer, and in the course OF
three or four years she was iutrusted
with nearly all tho herd!ng the little
farm needed.
The little girl protested against tho
slde-saddlo from the fret, and for thir-
teen years past has rarely used one.
Divided skirts were unlieard Of, but her
own devices evolved a garment OF q pat
torn which sho uses to this day. To
the masculine oye it is but an ordinary
street skirt, scarcely as long as walking
length. tight fitting in the front
bread,hs, but possessing innumerable
straight cores in the back. The mater
ial is OF somc soft stuff that easily
Grapes itself, and an unusual quantity
Is employed to secure the requisite full
ness in tho back. Perfect straightnuss
in the back Is necessary and when this
is attained tho result is surprising.
Mounted aatride on a heavy vaquero'a
saddle Miss Rogors' invention drapos it.
self as smoothly as q Parrot riding trou-
sere, and falls oven lowe, than when
she is on her feet.