Evening journal., 1900-03-14
HER FORTUNE IN HORNS
TEN THOUSAND PAIRS FROM
HEADS OF BUFFALO MAKE HER
RICH.

TEN THOUSAND PAIRS FROM
HEADS OF BUFFALO MAKE HER
RICH.
The business enterprise many wears
ago OF an Eastern man now a resident
OF Minnesota, and his kindness and af-
fection for his sister in this city. have
resulted in placing her in a position
OF probable future affiuence. She has
become the proprietor Of probably the
most singular collection Of wealth in
the United States, nearly 10000 pairs
or buafflo horns, which once adorned
the heads of herds of bison which oc-
cupied the plains Of the West. Her
fortune Is made, for she is a trust-not
combination Of capitalists, but a cora
plete trust in herself without fear of
any competition, for she has a monop-
oily OF the product and there is no fear
OF competition from any source.
Nearly twenty years ago, when the
plains OF the West were covered With
the remaining herds of buffalo, the wo-
mans brother was engaged in purchas-
ing the rights Of way for the Great
Northern railroad and during his trav-
els saw immense quantities OF bones.
skulls and horns of buffalo being col
lected for shipment East to be ground
into fertilizers for New England farms.
Two hundred carloads had been collect
ed and were being packed, when this
sagacious man reflected that the
slaughter Of buffalo would extinguish
the species and, buffalo gone, there
would be no more buffalo horns, which
he had seen converted into various
articles Of usefulness and decoration
With him, to reflect was to act, and
he soon decided TO purchase all he
could buy. Setting Indians at work he
soon made arrangements for them tc
separate the horns from the skulls
which had lain bleaching on the plains
OF Montana for many years. Horns
we're a drug on the market then and
were about a cent a pound on the hoof
When he had got his horny collection
together there were about 10000 pairs
OF buafflo horns stored away up in 4
corner OF the state, and he had corner.
ed the market.
Other enterprises commanded his at.
tention one little diversion being IN,
purchase Of town sites along the lin,
lot the road, which alone was sufficient
to make him immensely rich. and N
eourse Of time he almost forgot his col
lection OF horns. Meantime. his sistel
IN this city a woman who has display
cd considerable inventive genius in
small way, had heard Of her brotheri
collection and wondered IL she coul,
make a market for the horns. Sample,
OF horns we're sent on to her and shl
mas now found that there is a deman,
ior the goods. Her brother has mad
her a gift Of the entire bunch, nearl,
lo'OoO pairs, and she has made an ar
rangement 10 place them on the mar
ket In several forms. r
The buffalo horn is susceptible q
the highest polish After an outsid
covering has been removed the horn Il
the rough Is as black as ebony al
through. This takes a brilliant polish
3 the method Of obtaining which was a
one time a secret possessed by the In
dians. The Hartford woman. IN ar
ranging 10 market her strange collec
ton, spent some time in Leemlnstel
Mass, where there are twenty~thre
bone iactories, and studied the subjec
OF bones and bone manipulation an
2 tsoon learned the way 10 polish buoal
: norns to her complete satisfaction an
! srauneation. A proposition has bee
u made to her to design many effects i