Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-06
WOMEN WHO SUCCEEDED.
How Pluck and Push Win The
Western States.
SOME NOTABLE EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS.
now Mrs. u. n. rfouEhton Has Made n
Fortune OF Half n Million OF an
Investment OF u Bundrcd- We
man who Drives BarEains In
Horses Rich cattle queens.

In the chase for dollars women seem to sue
coed better In The West than In the East.
Mrs. II. L. Houghton Of Spokane Falls, |
proves the accuracy OF this observation. Her
oareor reads like a romance. She went 10
her present home from Wisconsin. Her hus.
hand. II. Il. Houghton, Is q lawyer, and now
a state senator. Tho boom was lust striking
Washington ut the time and Mrs. Houghton
TO, to investing money on her own account.
She bought timber and coal lands aud desert
acres. good II irrigated. Besides Tits 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, 900. all realized from an
original Investment, Il 10 said, ot hut 500
Mrs. Houghton is not boaatful OF hcr success
however. and says that what ehc has done
can be done by othor young womon, and that
she feels the great wost is the place for the
young women OF tho crowded East, whether
they wnnt to obtain wealth or husbands.
| Mrs. Houghton is little more than thirty
years old Though naturally ono OF the
most retiring Of women. she has often been
known to make long trips BY rail to Tacoma
and 81. Paul to consult with railroad oflcials
aud others in regard to land deals. She has
also made many porllous 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
tourney because OF snow or rough roads,
Mrs. Houghton secs In such obstacles an
incentive for her oncrgy. She has acquired
noarly oil her wealth since 1881.
Fmuhted by Mrs. Eloughton's example
manyOoung ladies from the East are locating
on tho public lands OF Washington, About
Olympia. Tacoma, and other towns Of cast
crn Washington many OF these young ladies
have made. and are now making locations
Many Of them have come from the tnr Enst
principally from New York aud Boston
They haze nken up their lands under the
> timber. presumption or homestead acts mainly
and In some cases they have gono out int
I tho woods, put up cabins, aud made thei
d nominal home in tho wilderness, white en-
gagged Tor part OF the tlmo In the town
from eight to dozen miles away In teachini
II or typewrlting.
g Quite "a number Of thom have very good loi
! cabins well furnished and truly comfortable
Lots OF the girls can shoot with tho bos
II marksmen OF the sterner sex, and Il you &
II into one Of those cabins you will see Sigh
" that will interest you IN the highest degroe-
VI deer horns, gun. skins OF wild animals, In
II dian relies, glittorlng specimens Of ore, are
/ few OF these things. The young lady's cabii
10 however differs from That OF tho young ma
u in being more neatly kept One OF the youn
women from the Fast is Miss Lulu lamsol
N Of the Emerson High School at Tacoma. 81
e. went there Ave years ngo from New Yor
u city. She came TO make winning, IN
~ with this in view did not diner from scor'
y OF other young ladies' who arrived about Il