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strain on her arms became a terrible ache; she trembled, the precious spot of light left its target at times, and the doctor swore tremen- dously. Four hours of time did that, the first operation in Silver City, consume — four terrible hours; but it saved the woman’s life. From that crude beginning has grown the Silver City General Hospital, one of the most modern in New Mexico, a monument to the work of Mrs. Warren and the others who made it possible. When she was taken there, 63 years later, suffering from a broken hip, she received care and comfort and luxuries which would not have been thought possible, in that early day. Mr. Warren died three years after finding his ideal home. Elizabeth took over the busi- ness, enlarged it, and by the force of her ex- panding personality made it greater than he would probably have done. She created in the spirit of the Southwest. Part of the time she had the assistance of her friend and business associate, Miss Koehler, who later became Mrs. Frank J. Wright. The insurance business included fire, life, accident and plate-glass. Silver City’s first plate-glass was dragged across the sandy wastes by ox cart. The Indians were still on the loose when Mrs. Warren became the “man of the family,” for not until 1886 did Geronimo sub- mit to American arms, and go upon' a reser- vation. But nothing dismayed her.