The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-28
AN ARIZONA RANCHER
A WOMAN TOOK CHARGE OF MoRTGAGED HERD.
Dresses in Mems Clothes-Makes
 Display of Skill With Firearms in Order to Impress Cowboy; With Fact that She is Boss.
Prescott, CAriz.) Letter to St Louis Re-

Prescott, tAriz.) Letter to St Louis Re-
 public.
 It was the seasons branding on the Fl Cajon stock range in lavapai County. Arizona A blue-eyed, fair-headed woman of about 2S years, astride thoroughbred horse, rode restlessly outside the corral watching all. occasionally 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 Annette Taylor, manager of one of the most prosperous cattle ranges in the Terri tory She has made a steadily losing in dustry of five years ago pay 10 and F per cent q year on the investment. If Miss Taylor's plans for this year carry her cattle range will yield some SS,000 net.
 This role of a young woman rancher is the more' uncommon because a little while ago she knew no more about cor rals. cattle. beef on foot rodoes and var queros than any Eastern school girl does who was kept busy in her school work and music and reading The Taylors lived in Aurora. H. There was an invalid son, two daughters and the parents. Ed ward J. Taylor. the father. was q grain dealer, and the family lived conven- tional, quiet life.
 In 1895. when Mir. Taylor became a con eumptiNe. he moved to Williams. Ar!a to live an outdoor life among the noun tains. When he grew strong in the Ari- zona camp he looked about for an in- Vestment and sene for his family It came about that he bought q cattle ranch i across the San Francisco mountains and built home there among d ciump oi ! trees. There was not a white man domicile within six miles.
 Prescott Eleven Miles Away. 1 Prescott. the nearest town, was clever miles away To the north, east and 1 west there was no human habitation to, many more miles. The investment was q failure. The steer market was bad ant l grew worse, thieves and cowboys made ] in-oads upon the Taylor cattle scattered ! out over the raugr. the Indians now anc 1 then slaughtered and devoured the sleek { kiue while they grazed in remote can. ons. When MT. Taylor lied in February l,9t, he believed he was DInkrup,. He had spent some S47.0o9. A mDrtgagc n. i Sl5.OM was on the herd and range
 Annette Taylor had been her invalid : had ridden over the range for him. hat 1 kept his accounts and had learned all | most as much aboUt the cattle industry as he. At his death she set herself |, conducting the ranch.
 l Discourag gements that would hay; wrecked most men came to Annette TGY ] io" in succession. Those were the dark { st of all days in the famous hard year. l aUona cditlemen in the Southwest. Many i 2 person who had made a fortune o S35.000 tD Sio0.00u in q few years of Cattl' | ranrhinC, gave up the struggle. fnAu ! ciaiiN ruined. A drought came upon th, ! Arizona cattle ranges Tn the midst of ihsi l woes But the young woman ranchrrt stuck dossedly tn her work, cconomi5s' at every point. hired as few vaque-os q: rossi1le. an the time learning her bus
 ness. seeking fresh grazing sp,ts an, ] protecting hey rights
 Thirty Hours in tho Sadi,le
 Many time she spent thirty hours a
 stretch in the saddle Time and agair
 she had to exhibit her reYolvers and mak