Her "Dot."

Southland Times, Issue 9165, 15 March 1886, Page 3

Her "Dot."

The Cicesus of South America is a woman, Donna Isadora Coueino of Santiago, Chile, and there are few men or women in the world richer than she. There is no end to her money, and no limit to her extravagance, and people call her the Countess of Monte Christo. She traces her anceatry back to the days of the Conquest, and has the record of the first of her fathers who landed on the shores of the New Wirld, Her late husband was the richent man in Chile, and, having added his vast possessions to her own, she baa an income of several millions a year. From her coal mines alone eenora Cousino has an income of 80,000 dole, a montb. She has a monopoly of the coal, and, though it costs but 1 .35 dole, a ton to pat it in the market, she will not se'l for less than 7.50 dols. She has a fleet of eight iron steamships, of capacities varying from 2,000 to 3,600 tons. Mme. Cousino own 3 every house in the town of Lota, and every one of its 6,000 or 7,000 inhabitants is d* pendent upon her for support, In Ooronel her proprietorship io not quite so complete, but nine-tenths of the people — and there.are 8,000 of them— are on her payoils, She has brick-kilns and potteriea as well as smelters, and makes all the tiles and earthenware used on the West Coast. It I said that she pays out from 100,000 to 120,000 dols, a month as wages in these two towns. JBer mansion stands in the centre of what is undoubtedly the finest private park in the world, including 250 acrea of Jand laid out in the most elaborate manner, Tue madam takes great inteiest in the turf, attends every racing meeting in Chile, and always bets very heavily on her own horses. At 'be last meeting her winnings arc reported to have been over 100,000 dols. The madam is very fond of young men, and has from fifteen to twenty young fellows around her constantly, to whom Bhe gives all the money they oan spend, and in return she expects them to entertain her. Bo'.h of her daughters are very bright an<l pretty, one being about seventeen and the other nineteen yeais of age, Their brother, a young man of twentythree or twenty.four, will sh.re the property with them. — W, IS, Cartiss in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.