The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
HER FORTUNE IN HORNS.
Ton Thousand Pairs From Heads OF
Buffalo Make Her Rich.
From The Hartford Courant.

From the Hartford Courant.
The business enterprise many years ago
of an Eas ern man now a resident of Min
nesota, and his kindness and affection for
his sister in this city, have resulted in
placing her in position Of probable fu-
ture afnuence She has become the pro-
prletor of probably the most singular col
lection Of wealth in the United States.
nearly 10000 pairs of buffalo horns. which
once adorned the heads of herds of bison
which occupied the plains of the West.
Her fortune is made, for she is trust
not a combination of capitalists, but a
complete trust in herself without fear OF
any competition, for she has monopoly
of the product and there is no fear of COM
petition from any source
Nearly twenty years ago, when the
plains of the West were covered with the
remaining herds of buffalo, the womans
brother was enga ged in purchasing the
rights of way for the Great Northern rail-
road and during his travels saw immense
quantities of bones, skulls and horns OF
buffalo being collected for shipment East
to be ground into fertilizers for New
England farms. Two hundred carloads
had been collected and were being pack
ed when this saga ciOus 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 In
d ans at work he soon made arrangements
for them to separate the horns from the
skulls, which had lain bleaching on the
plains of Montana for many years. Horns
were drug on the market then and were
worth about a cent a pound off the hoot.
When he had got his horny collection to-
gether there were about 10000 pairs Of
buffalo horns stored away up in a corner
of the state, and he had cornered the
market
Other enterprises commanded his atten-
ton, one little diversion being the pur~
chase of town sites along the line of the
road, which alone was sufficient to make
him immensely rich, and in course of time
ne almost forgot his collection of horns.
Meantime his sister in this city, woman
who had played considerable inventive
genius in small way, had heard of her
brothers collection and wondered If she
could make market for the horns. sam
pies OF horns We're sent on TO her, and sne
mas now found that there is a demand Tor
the goods Her brother has made her a
gift of the entire bunch nearly 10000 pairs,
and she has made arrangements to place
them on the market in several forms.
The buffalo horn is susceptible of the
highest polish After an outside covering
has been removed the horn in the rough
Is as black as ebony all through. TINS
takes brilliant polish, the method OF OBJ
tanning which was at one time a secret
possessed by the Indians. The Hartford
woman, in arranging to market her
strange collection, spent some time IA
Leominster. Mass, where there are TWEEN
ty-three bone factories, and studied the
subject of bones and bone manipulation
and soon learned the way TO polish buna
horns to her complete satisfaction and
qualification. A proposition has been made
to her to design many effects in which the
horns may be used, and she has now un-
der contemplation an offer to sell the en-
tire lot of horns. which on storage Occur
pies 1000 cubic feet of space, but she VIII
probably make other arrangements.