The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-06-11
A GIRL RANCHER.
Miss Annette Taylor Assumed Con-
troll of a Mortgaged Herd and Is
Now Adding to the Property

Ine hi OaJon sVOck rdIlSe, iaN"pi"
county, Arizona. A blue eyed,
fair haired woman of about %
years, astride thoroughbred
horse, rode restlessly outside of
the corral watching all, OCCASION
ally giving orders to the men
concerning their work and the
management of the cows and
calves yet to be branded.
The young woman was Miss An
nette Taylor, manager of one OF
the most prosperous cattle ranges
in the territory, She has made a
steadily losing industry Of five
years ago pay 1919 and 1910 a
year on the investment. If Miss
Taylor's plans for this year carry
her cattle range will yield some
IS, 900 net.
This role of a young woman
rancher is the more uncommon
because a little while ago she
knew no more about corrals, cat
tie on foot, rodeos and vanqueros
than any Eastern school girl does
who has kept busy in her school
work and music. and reading.
The Taylors lived in Aurora, Ill.
There was an invalid son, two
daughters and the parents. Ed
ward J. Taylor, the father, was
a grain dealer, and the family
lived Unconventional, quiet life. =.
In 1895, when Mr.. Taylor be-
came a consumptive, he moved to
Williams, Ariz., to live an out
door life among the mountains.
When he grew stronger in the
Arizona camp, he looked about
for an investment and sent for
his family. 1t came about that
he bought a cattle ranch across
the San Francisco mountains and
built a home there amonga clump
of trees. There was not white
mans domicile within six miles.
PRESCOTT ELEVEN MILES AWAY.
Prescott, the nearest town, was
eleven miles away. To the north,
east and west there was no human
habitation for many more miles.
The investment was q failure.
The steer market was bad and
grew worse, thieves and cowboys
made inroads upon the Taylor
cattle scattered out over the range
and Indians now and then slaugh.
tered and devoured the sleek kline
while they grazed in remote can
ons. When Mr.. Taylor died in
February, 1897, he believed he
was bankrupt. He had spent
some $47, 900. A mortgage OF
$15, 900 was on the herd and range
Annette Taylor had been her in
valid fathers helper in his last
years. She had ridden over the
range for him, had kept his &C
counts and had learned almost as
much about the cattle industry as
he. At his death she set herself
to conducting the ranch.
Di 3couragements that woulC
have wrecked most men came t.
Annette Taylor in succession
those were the darkest of all day:
in the famous hard years among
cattlemen in the Southwest
Many person who had made ,
fortune Of $4,000 to 800, 900 in {
few years of cattle ranching gave
up the struggle, financially ruin
ed. A drouth came upon the Ari
IONA cattle ranges in the midst o,
their woes. But the young woman
ranchero stuck doggedly to hel
work, economical at every point
hired as few vaqueros as possible
all the time learning her business
seeking fresh grazing spots anc
protecting her rights.
THIRTY HOURS IN THE SADDLE.
Many time she spent thirt,
hours at a stretch in the saddle
Time and again she had to exhibi
her revolvers and make a shown,
of her experiences in fire arms t.
impress her determination upoi
outlaw characters upon the from
tier. She studied the relative val
ues of many straight and eros
breeds of Texas longhorns, plain
Shorthorns, Sonora reds and New
Mexico pintos until she became al
authority on the most marketable
sort of steers among Chicago ant
Kansas City beef buyers.
She pored over big, bulky vol
umes of cattle distempers and all
ments and learned their cause
and remedies, and thereby lessen
ed the death loss in her herd
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