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\fter February 1st we will pay $10.00 for
Flemlock and $1l.>0 for Spruce
GOVERNMENT SCALE
Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
Much is heard pro and con of a,
labor shortage in the United States,'
and particularly in Alaska, but what'
has this territory to fear when a*
couple of mere girls demonstrate that
it is no trick at all for their »ex to do
successful gold raining?
Up at Pearl Harbor, but forty miles
from Juneau, two young women, Emma
and Margaret Peterson, just out of
their teens, have for the past four!
years operated a paying mine. Their
sole assistant has been another capa
ble woman, their mother.
, Their little mill has two stamps,
and their great ambition now Is to in- ,
stali a five-stamp equipment. From
sharpening steel, drilling, blasting,
transporting ore, crushing, stamping,
tending amalgam plates and concen
trating tables, to taking the gold Into :
town to one of the banks, the girls are' ]
experts.
Both were born in Juneau, of sturdy, 8
enterprising pioneer parents, and they| ,
have grown up with and in the coun-'{
try. They look upon their achieve-' j
jnents as every-day affairs. They found (
certain conditions confronting them.',
They met the conditions and won out. j
When the reporter first met these t
two young women, therf neither of 11
legal age, they were sensibly dressed j {
in khaki skirts and trousers. They!
j were busy loading lumber on a trun^ t
ear, which they were hauling thiae t
I miles by mule team to thetr mill site,' y
i where they were rebuilding their j
j home, which had been destroyed a few |
i days previously by fire. With a mod-[
est excuse that they were “not expect-j
ing company,” they kept on working, j ;
Just before starting out it was found
that one of the mules had cast a shoej
during the night Did they wait until
they could take the mule over the ,
forty-mile trail to the local horse chi- ,
ropodist at Juneau and back again?!
Not at all. One got the nails and j ,
I hammer while the other hunted up a
new shoe, and in a few minutes the ,
mule was ready for duty.
As we went up the tramway I re
marked that they had been having
some lagging cut with which to repair
the tramway. “Oh, no, that is some
sister and I cut and split last winter
when we had nothing to do,” answered
Miss Emma. There must have been
at least ten cords of the lagging.
After reaching the mill and site of ,
the new house-to-be, they put the ;
mules in the barn and showed us the
property, that is, what we could see
in two feet of snow. The men of
our party gallantly suggested that
they should go first and break trails, |
but before we had started on the re
turn trip the strongest of the party
was in the lead—and it was not a
man, either.
About six weeks later, when the
writer again visited the mine, there
was a neatly-built four-room cottage
where chaired wood frames had met
the eye before. Foundation, floors,
sides and roofilng, even the calsomin
Ing and tinting of the rooms, had been.'
performed by these two girls, and In a
manner of which many skilled work
men would be proud.
On this later trip the mill was vis
ited. The writer remarked that they
had a new water wheel to furnish
power for the mill. “Yes,” said Miss
Krma, “we had an expert up hers
from Juneau a few weeks ago to re
pair the old one, but it broke down
igain before he reached town, so Mar
garet and I took our axes and went
>ut into the woods, hewed out the
imbera and put in one that would
;tand.” These girls do a little job
ike that just as easily as moat women '
>owder their noses.
Not all of their time, however, is
ipent at laborious work. You should |
lee their library! There are volumes
n geology, mineralogy, petrology, min-j
ng, milling and mine management, by i
he best authorities. And you might
lot believe it, with the other things Ij
lave told you, but if my memory
ervgs me right 1 saw several copies
the Welintmtor and a work on eu-J
enics, tod.
How these two young women came]
o be experts in their profession may
e answered by a bit o£ family his
ory. Their father and mother came to
luneau some twenty-six years ago.
Soon after this Mr. Peterson and his
lartner discovered this likely-looking
3earl Harbor prospect, and immedi
itely began development work. Their
'ather, John G. Peterson, later ac
quired the entire interests. And it
vas under his tutelage that they re
ceived their practical mining experi
ence.
Refusing handsome offers, Peterson
■lung to the prospect to which he had
>inned his faith and backed his judg
nent with his time and money, and life .
tself, for he died at the mine after ,
learly, three years of sickness, which
endered him helpless during that
ime.
It was during these years of traili
ng under their father that they
earned mining, and it was during his
dekness that they showed the stuff
if which they were made. Unaided
ind alone, backed by their mother’s
lelp and courage, they kept the mine
producing from early spring until the
Jeep winter snows interfered.
They take a trip Outside now and
then, and went to Europe, too before
he war. Certainly no one begrudges
them their good times, for they have
earned them, if any one has. They
ire a credit to themselves, to their
parents, to Juneau, the town of their
nativity, and to all of Alaska.—Juneau
Dispatch. i
PLAN OF PHILADELPHIANS
ON THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Keb. 25.—
Probably no other section of the
country has made more elaborate prep
arations for the third Liberty loan
campaign than the Third federal re
serve district, which embraces two
thirds of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
south of Trenton, and all of Delaware.
Philadelphia, as the headquarters of
this territory, will be the local point
of spectacular interest during the new
drive.
Four art figures in heroic mold have
been installed over* the four archways
of the city hall here to stimulate in
terest in the campaign. Notable
among these is a reproduction, in all
but the dimensions, of Bartholdi’s
statue of the Goddess of Liberty in
New York harbor. Surmounting the
other entrances of the municipal build
ing are, respectively, a gigantic repre
senation of a khaki-clad soldier going
over the top, a tank on the advance,
and a portrayal of an American battle
ship destroying a German submarine.
The statue of Liberty, including the
torch, is twenty-nine feet high, and,
with the pedestal, towers aloft about
fifty feet. It is the largest imitation
of the bronze presented to America by
the French nation ever made, and it
is expected that it will be entirely
veneered with a coating of medals and
nails, the latter to be driven in by .
bond subscribers.
In the base of the statue there is a
large room with two entrances. From
this a ladder leads to the figure of the
goddess. Bond buyers will be fur
nished with medals on which their ini
tials will be stamped, and with these
they expect to weld a complete coal of
mail for "Liberty” long before the
campaign is completed.
Delegations from all over the Third
federal reserve district have planned
pilgrimages to the city to take part in
this unique pledge of patriotism.
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