employed or ill-paid women and children an occupation
peculiarly suited to them, and which will add millions of dollars
annually to the revenue of the country. Mrs. Florence Kimball of
San Diego county was appointed a member of the State Board of
Silk Commissioners by Governor Stoneman in 1883.

Since the expiration of their term as superintendents of the
public schools of the State, Dr. and Mrs. James Carr have made
their home in that loveliest spot of southern
California--Passadena, where, overlooking rich orange groves and
luxurious vineyards, they enjoy the blessings of prosperity, and
where Mrs. Carr, with her ambitious, active nature, finds
congenial employment in demonstrating what woman can accomplish
in silk-culture, raisin-making, and the crystalizing of fruit.

Miss Austen, formerly a teacher in the public schools of San
Francisco, has a vineyard at Fresno, where she employs women and
girls to prepare all her considerable crop of raisins for market,
conceded to be of the best quality produced in the State. Mrs.
Ellen McConnell Wilson of Sacramento county, from the small
beginning, twenty years ago, of 320 acres of land, and less than
1,000 sheep, has now over 5,000 acres of rich farming land and
6,000 sheep. Mrs. H. P. Gregory of Sacramento, left a widow with
a large family of little children, succeeded her husband in the
shipping and commission business in which he was engaged on a
small scale. From such a beginning, Mrs. Gregory has built up one
of the largest trades in that city, and has by judicious
investments in real estate acquired property of a value exceeding
$100,000, besides having reared and educated her numerous family.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hill was one of the early settlers in Calaveras
county, where her husband located land on the Mokelumne river
near Camanche in 1855. Six years after she was left a widow with
four little children. The support of the family devolved upon the
mother, and she engaged in cultivating the land, adding thereto
several hundred acres. In 1877 Mrs. Hill began the cultivation of
the Persian-insect-powder plant, known to commerce as Buhach. So
successful has this venture proved that she has now over 200
acres planted to that shrub, and manufactures each year about
fifteen tons of the Buhach powder,