The times., 1897-07-11
RICHEST OF WOMEN
AND a WIDOW

Said to BE Coming TO New YORK
the worId,i comingtoNew York sheowns
most OF the copper mines IN Chile and Peru,
more than hundred steamers and sailing
vessels, and her palaces are akin to the
fabied one of Aladdin.
According TO current gossip 10 South
America, Nine. de CousinO, or the Widow
Cousino, as she is popuIaIiy known, ID
worth in the neighborhood of SIeo,OOO,-
QUO, which amount is constantly increas-
ing, for, despite her lavishness and extEav-
agance, the widow is unable To spend even
one -half of heI enormous income estimated
at So coo. 900 annually She is extraya-
CANT 10 a degree, and should she decide 10
entertain Gotham's Four Hundred, the
BIadley -nartin ban would, IF course, be
eclipsed The widow is quoted by Lima
newspapers saying that If she cannot
get a mansion In New York city that
pIeaseS her she will build palace ia which
to astonish and delight the efrese North
The greater part of tie widows wealth
is inherited, but by shrewd management
and clever investments .he has managed
to double the money left to her by her
father and brother. The former, Senor
Goyenechea, laid the foundation of his for
guucs by developing the silver mine at Co
piapo, Chile. When that mine ceased To
yield pa ying ore he went into copper
mining, and. in partnership with his son,
prospered To such an extent that before
their respective deaths they controlled
every copper mine in Chile and Peru
ThTee-fourths OF the copper consumed by
fha Of
piled by the mines owned by tne widow.
Some forty years agO SenOr GOyen-
echea died and left his fortune. amount
ing to more than $40, 900 900 to his son
EmeterIo and his daughter IsidCra- A
few years afterward his widow married
senor Cousino. a wealthy merchant OF
Valparaiso, end it was his soG who be-
came the husband of Isidora, in 1855
After the deaths OF her mother and
brother the sonora became the sole owner
of the Goyenechea estate, together with
that of her dead husband.
Ther the widow, who possessed busf-
ness instinct Of remarkable degree, deveI-
oped her enterprises until she became the
rIcnest woman in the whole world and One
of the richest OF human beings. The in
dUStries she controls are most varied, for,
besides owning the richest copper mines in
two Countries, she possesses a hundred
ships used in conveying the copper ore to
the smelling works at Lota; silver mines in
Chile, great stock farm and vineyards at
MacUl, eight miles from Santiago, aud the
whole town OF Lota
This town-eyery bit OF land, every house,
all public wOrks-in fact, everything In
Lota belongs TO the widow, and the :. 900
inhabitants get their living in the indus
| tries controlled by her Among these in
| Gustries, as de from the smelling works,
| which are among the largest in the world,
are the pOtteries, which supply the whole
| OF South America with pottery ware, and
| great coal mines OF incaIcUIa5Ie value
| Lota was Eeguu by the widow 5 father, and
I from a sleepy little Spanish village was
| de- eioped into busthng, enterprISlng
| town
| The stock farm and vineyard at MaeuI
/ was the TesuIe of the sporting tastes OF
| Senior CCusino. Being an up-to- date man.
| he determined 20 have the best horses 70 be
had for money, and accordingly sent Is
| England for thOroughbreds and grOoms
| Then he bought a few hundred square miles
| Of fine laIid and established the stock farm,
| utilizing the surplus territory for vine
| yards The latter cover about five thou
sand acres, and the wine produced is said
| by experts 70 be as good as anything thl5
/ comes from Burgundy or the Rhine
| But while the industrial achievements of
| the widow make interesting reading. her
/ palaces AID herself are far more enter
| tanning Sencr COuSino died in 1915. Ieav-
| ing besides his fortune six children, evenly
i divided as u sex and all married They
have establishments of their own, leaving
| their mother with three mammoth places
| OF residence. The greatest or them is st
Lota, which lies on landiOcked bay sur
| rounded by high hills On one side. and
| covering thousands of acres, are the park
| and residence Of the widow The gardens
are marveis or beauty. There are fantastic
| gTOttos, terraces, statues. fountains, fern
eries, magnificent flights of marble stairs
and pretty and romantic sylvan hooks.
Summer houses of quaint deSign are sent
tered al over the place. many of them
| adorned with art treasures There are only
two stories to the house itself. which is
built OF brick and stucco- The walls are
massive, TO withstand the shocks OF the
| frequent earthquakes
In Santiago the town house is OF white
marble With its gardens it occupies a
square block in the heart OF the CITY. 1t is
said 20 have cost nearly 81, OOO, 900 in
| silver
The house at Macul is a duplicate, save
that the gardens are OF immense size,
900 hundred gardeners being employed the
year around 90 keep them in order
Sonora COuSino, the owner OF all this
wealth, IS about fifty-five years old. dark,
tall and still a beautiful woman She is
extremely fond of entertaining, and if
she canes to this city much viii be hear,I
and written about her--New York Journal