The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
WOMEN AS FINANCIERs.
Members of Gentler Sex Who Have
 Made Great Fortunes.

From Tit-Bits.
 There is common saying to the eff feet that a woman has no head for business, but whoever makes the re- mark is either willfully blind to the facts or amazingly ignorant, for there are a great number of women in the world today who have not only proved that they have head for business, but they know how to make money in far quick CT and more enterprising manner than thousands of men.
 Many an expert on the other side of the Atlantic has confessed his inability to make farming and ranching pay, and yet there are women in Mexico and the states who have built up some of the most prosperous farms in the world.
 There is Mrs. Harriet M. King, for in- stance. the sole owner and actual man. ager of Santo Gertrudes Ranch, near Corpus Christi, Tex. You could ride 9C miles in straight line and yet remain within the barbed wire fence which in- closes this amazing farm. It's pasturage affords grazing for 100000 cattle. 5O,OOC sheep and nearly 5000 horses, and more than POGO employees are kept busy on the ranch. When certain cattle syndi- cate offered Mrs. King over s1,O00,000 for her farm she simply laughed at the val uation, and refused to consider the pos sbility of a sale.
 Another remarkable Texas lady farm CT is Mrs. Kennedy. who possesses a ranch which, in the opinion of many, has the best stock in that part of the world. The cattle are the finest breed and her ranch comprises some of the richest land in the state. She takes an active interest in all the doings of the ranch. and is reported to be worth some G1 ,00o,G00.
 H. women of America is Mrs. Theodosia Beacham, who has made fortune out of building railroads. For a number of years it is said that she has made not less than GS0O0 to E10000 a year profit and on one of her hecent contracts she n ade a14,OOO in a few months.
 She reminds one of Mrs. Mary H. Hal laday a woman railway president of St Louis, who, on the death of her husband became a member of the board of di- rectors of a small railroad in which he cid a large amount of stock of doubt fuI future value. She soon began to show the men on the board that she was. perhaps, a better railroader than the men themselves, and in two. years, trough her business aptitude, she had raised the value of the stock formerly held by her husband to close upon 95oo,- 900.
 Mrs Rosa Hermann is another widow who provides a striking illustration of the business aptitude of women. Before his death MT. Hermann built up big lumber business. He left everything ab- solutely and internationally to his wife. She was a society woman, knowing little about business, but she at once stepped into the gap and took hold of the reins. So quickly did she grasp the essentials of the business that. although it is only about @ dozen years ago since her hus- band died her rivals admit that what she does not know about the lumber business is scarcely worth knowing.
 Perhaps one of the most remarkable fortunes eyer made by q woman was that acquired by Mrs. Hood Russell, who, in a little over a dozen years, rose from being a lawyers stenographer at f2 a week to one of the richest women in Kentucky. While working in an office she acquired a knowledge of oil. and. discovering some oil fields in Kentucky. put all her money in them. taking new leases at every opportunity by pledgihs half interest in them. The first ''shot' was successful and her fortune was made, for she held leases on thousands of acres.