Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-31
MINING FOR WOMEN,
A New and Profitable Occupation
for the Independent.
There Are Expert Operators and
Agents Of the Sex who Are Doing
Well In the Business With
out Speculating,

The old days when "men must work
while women must weep" are of the
past, and under the new dispensation
women are regularly enrolled among
the workers of the world, and the sort
of occupation in which they shall en-
gage is limited only by the work to be
done in the world. Women like mtn
Earn their bread by the sweat OF their
brows and are beholden to no one for
cake and preserves. and the women are
CAD of It, and no doubt the men are too.
Mrs. +. {. Atwood. at the national con-
vention of miners held in Milwaukee re-
Gently, made some interesting state
ments concerning women in the field OF
mining, which seems a unique occupa-
ton for them to engage in. She de-
scrlbes the work as fascinating and
lucrative. but admonishes women who
engage in mining to go into it with a
good stock of determination, which
must be the dynamite and gunpowder
to carry them to success in the under
taking. If pursued in a painstaking
and intelligent way she says it is a bust
ness that can be made to pay well, says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Miss Caroline Van Brunt. who is the
secretary Of the Oxford Copper com
pany, is also one of the directors and
one of the incorporators of the COM
pany. She is perfectly familiar with
all that is necessary to be known upon
the subject, in fact knows more about
copper, nickel, the general mining of
ores. the source of supply, production,
consumption, tariff, state of trade than
any other woman, andmore than three
quarters of the men. who claim to be
experts upon the subject of mining and
the interests relates to it. She has
studied the subject of making copper
fumes less injurious. and it was prin-
cipally through her representation that
congress was induced to give these es-
adjustments requiring it a further
chance to experiment with smoke con-
sumers and odor eXtractors.
Two Colorado women referred to bv
Mrs. Atwood were Miss Stewart and
Miss Dillingham;. who successfully man
aged a mine and concentrating mill.
Mrs. E. c. Stoiber, of Silverton, who
lately entertained a number Of club
women at the Denver meeting of the
General Federation, is a successful min
ing woman and a member of the Amer
lean Institute of Mining Engineers.
In speaking of mining. however, Mrs.
Atwood asserted that she had no ref
erence to speculation in mining stocks
of which Mr.. Charles b. Rouse, the null
ti-millionaire merchant of New York.
said: There is one thing | would most
emphatically impress upon women
keep away from Wall street. Don't
speculate; don't buy stocks. That is
not legitimate business, and is sure.
sooner or later, to lead to ruin. Aside
from this there is no line of business in
which women may moi succeed if they
will give to their work the necessary
thought and attention"
The woman who has faith in herself
can move mountains and maybe find
enough nuggets to make her happy for
the rest of her life. At any rate. she
has as good chance as a man, and the
work is not nearly SO hard nor iaborious
as many of time-honored employments
of women, and is likely to prove much
more lucrative.