Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1916-11-24

Silver City, New Mexico is huge
sisu in black and white that reads:
MRS. O. s. WARREN
General Contractor and Builder
Concrete Work a Specially
Down ON Bullard Street, which is
Ia say broadway is severely plain
one story building Of gray pebble
dash with large plate glass window
on which ,edate gold letters announce:
THE WARREN AGENCY
Insurance
Back of the two signs. YOU will find
q .rnv-haired woman. fifty-six. only
I, few inches over five feet in height.
Win alert brown eyes behind strong
rl.->cs. her dress sometimes spatter-
al with paint and mortar.
ia, woman was for twenty five
wears the leading insurance agent in
a., Southwest. aud today she j. the
l,r.r-l General contractor in Silver
e., and the surrounding Grant coun-
49,. hat prosperous hunting ground
al miners. rancher-. and "lungers."
az German parcntase thcr father was
rvled after the failure of the rcvo-
luton in rs and came to Americn
with Carl Schuryl. she married Or
aner :. Warren in 1874 and with him
travelled from her home in Brooklyn.
n different times they set up their
hnr.rhold goods in Little Rock. San
Francisco and Walla Walla. In 1881
,he, rumc with their three children Ia
Silver City. several years before the
branch line wa. built which connects
il with the world and the Southern
p.,ifr II Dcmins.
Silver City WIS yonng when Mr..
Warren opened an insurance office
lhcr hut he wa> unusually success
al u. writing policies. Four years
lalcr h. died of heart failure.
Mr.. Warren had centuries of pre-
c,drnl ro guide the course Of her Wild
owhood. She could so home with her
children IL her husbands relatives or
her own. and find out how steep ARE
,hc stairs IN other people, houses: 81
-,,kin. Independence. -hc could Il"
plain sewing ar teach school To sup
Element her income. Instead she took
u,cr the management of her hn,-
bands insurance business.
She built - combination house aud
-,ii",. uH what was then the man.
-irc-i of silver. Usually she had II
,.ok and u clerk. but there were
tln,r. when ~he ran the office. aud the
lich.u and the nursery maidcd. and
.l.rruilN without neglcctine any of
them.
From 1855 untll 1910. when she
sold her insurance business becausc
uf the pressure of other interests. Mrs.
Warren wrote more policie, than any
oihn recording agent in the South
west. IL Pa>o mol excluded. When
hr va asked AZ . convention of in
france agent what obstacle she
bad encountered on account of hci
..N, he nn> werrd with characters
ice mmor,
None. except the lack Of proper
packets.
IN 1906 the Solou- OF Silver City
omunwered civil engineer to draw
liillc red line, hither and yon over
lhr city map. and ordered the owners
al such property IL the red lines
,nnchcd to lay sidewalks. Mrs. War
rem, who. in the course of twenty
YEAR, had acquired several blocks.
Aa- hnrriiied To find that the
rrd lines bordcrcd almost every one
IT her holdings. She sent Ia FL Pa-o
and Albuquerque for bid, on the
work The Albuquerque contractor
rcfn-ed to consider it man came up
from Fl Pnso Ia look over the mater
IT, 1T hand. but would not undertake
he contract because the only sand
0blannble was useless on account of
he Ill IA H. lie had seen a small pile
nf The right grade. but II had been
rarird h. land of man who was IN
california aud no one knew where il
came from
liui the pavements had TO be laid.
Mr.. Warren talked over the dilemma
wlh Mis- W. X. Kcehler. the princi-
pal al the Silver City schools. whose