St. Paul daily globe., 1894-05-06
WOMEN WHO SUCCEEDED.
How Pluck and Push Win the
~ ". Western States.
SOME NOTABLE EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS.
How Mrs. n. E. Houshton Has Made u
Fortune of Half q Million on an
Investment of n Hundred--A We.
Imam who Drives Bargains In
Horses -Riclr Cattle Queens.

In the chase for dollars women seem to sue
ceed better in the West than in the East.
Mrs. 81. E. Hopghton, OF Spokane Falls,
proves the accuracy; Of this observation. Her
career reads Ike q romance. She went to
her present home from Wisconsin. Her hus-
band, 81. E. Houghton, is lawyer, and now
a State Senator. The boom was Just striking
Washington at the time, and Mrs. Houghton
got to investing money on her own account
She bought timber and coal lands and desert
acres, good if irrigated. Besides this she
became interested in numerous town sites,
notably at Bonner's Ferry and Post Falls.
Everything has gone her way, and she is now
worth some $500, 600, all realized from an
original investment, it is said, of but $780,
Mrs. Houghton is not boastful OF her success,
however, and says that what she has done
can be done by other young women, and that
she feels the great West is the place for the
young women Of the crowded East, whether
they want to obtain wealth or husbands
Mrs. Houghton is little more than thirty
years old. Though naturally one of the
most retiring of women, she has often been
known to make long trips by rail to Tacoma
and st. Paul to consult with railroad officials
also made many perilous trips by stage over
the wild and mountainous sections of eastern
Washington and northern Idaho. Where
many men would hesitate to set out on a
journey because Of SNOW or rough roads,
Mrs. Houghton sees in such obstacles an
incentive for her energy. She has acquired
nearly all her wealth Since 1887.
Emulated by Mrs. Houghton's example
many young ladies from the East are locating
on the public lands of Washington. About
Olympia. Tacoma, and other towns of east
ern Washington many of these young ladies
have made, and are now making locations.
Many of them have come from the far East,
principally from New York and Boston.
They have taken up their lands under the
timber, ,pre-emption or homestead acts mainly,
and in some cases they have gone out into
the woods, put up cabins, and made their
nominal home in the wilderness, while en-
gagged for part of the time in the towns
from eight to dozen miles away in teaching
or typewriting.
Quite a number Of them have very good log
cabins, well furnished and truly comfortable.
Lots of the girls can shoot with the best
marksmen of the sterner sex, and if you go
into one Of these cabins you will see sight
that will interest you in the highest degree
deer horns, a gun, skins of wild animals. In
dian relics, gfittering specimens of ore, are a
few of these things. The young lady's cabin,
however, differs from that of the young man
in being more neatly kept. One Of the young
women from the East is Miss Lulu Lamson,
OF the Emerson High School at Tacoma. She
ax-o No, W.
city. She came to make winning, and
with this in view did not differ from scores
Of other young ladies who arrived about the
same time. Miss Lamson began teaching at
once, and meantime took up pre-emption
claim and afterward homestead at Wash
ougal, on the Columbia River, near Fort Van