The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-01
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
Several of Them Have Incomes of
100000 a Year.
(Tit-RftS.l

One hears so much and so exclusive
ly Of male millionaires that one is apt
to lose sight of the facs that men have
no monopoly of million-making, and
that there are many women who are
no mean rivals to them In the art of
amassing riches
Quite recently Mrs. Herman OeIrichs,
who is said to be the smartest and
shreWdest business woman in the
world, has, so they say, been coming
money at the rate of 1000 900 a year
by clever speculation in railway shares
Mrs Oelrichs is a daughter of the late
Senator Fair. from whom no doubt she
has inherited her talent for making
money. Only two years ago she re-
Voked the power of attorney given to
her husband and took the management
OF her affairs into her own hands: she
sold out all her real estate holdings in
San Francisco, went to New York
and, while eclipsing her rivals in law
ish and original entertainments. has
found time to make the satisfactory
income of nearly 81 600 600 a month.
Another over-the-water lady hustler
| is Mrs. Richard King, who for many
q year has conducted ranch seven
times as large as the county of Middle
sex as very few men living could con-
duct 1t. So extensive is Mrs. Kings
farm that it is bounded on one side by
forty miles of baTbed wire fence: il is
an hour and a half's drive from Mrs.
Kings front door to her front gate
| and she employs an army of over 300
cowboys to tend her 200 900 cattle. and
! the ponies they employ number 200.
Mrs. King has long passed the stage
when she could, If need were, sign her
name to a milliOn-pOund check, and
! f-Frn
! riches very largely to her own business
acumen.
Mrs. King has a fair and formidable
rival in Mrs. Nat Collins, known
throughout America as the Cattle
| Queen of Montana" Mrs Collins has
had a career of romance and adven-
ture such as even she would not care
to repeat. From childhood she has
| lived her strenuous life on the plains
and in the mountains of Montana; she
has been kidnapped by Indians and kept
/ prisoner for months by them, and
/ she still bears an ugly scar as a me-
| mento of q toO-well-aimed tomahawk,
| In later life she acted as cook and
| scout for a freighting train, and spent
! years travelling between Denver and
/ the Missouri river Hardly a day
! passed. she says, without an Indian
! fight, for the savages were constantly
| swoOping down on the trains and kill
! ing the freighters or driving away the
stock; while at times the buffalo We're
! so thick that we would be compelled
! to stop our train and shoot among
! them to drive them away" About
! twenty years ago Mrs. Collins took tC
! cattle rearing and dealing, and al
! though she is said to have amassed
| millions, she still personally conducts
| her trainloads of cattle from Montana
| to Chicago.
Mrs. Hetty Green is said to make an
! annual income of little less than 81
| 000, 900 by her clever dealings in stocks
| and shares. Some years ago her for
| tune was estimated at e10, 200 900; and
| yet this remarkable woman works
| longer hours and harder in her office
| than any lady clerk, travels to and fro
| for few pence daily. does her owl
modest marketing and cooking, and
leads generally as Spartan a life as il
her income was Sc instead of nearly
| 100000 a week
Russia boasts a splendid business
woman I'm Nine. Woleska, who is mis-
tress of hundreds of thousands of acres
| of land and a score Of villages and
small towns. Every day she devOteS
several hours to the personal super
vision of her vast estates, and in con-
ference with her hundred agents, while
no petty detail relating 10 a cottage
or farm is too small for her attention
Sonora Cousino, who owns vast es-
tates in South America, and whose for
tune is said to exceed $40 600, 900, i:
another woman whose millions are al
lied to great business gifts The sen
ora, who inherited greac wealth from
her father, has added enormously t
1t by her skillful management of he
| possessions; in fact, so sh1ewd an(
clever is she that the late Jay GoulC
declared that If she liked she nigh
annass wealth compared with which tn
fortune Of the richest man millionaire
would seem poverty.
ymong other lady owners Of millions