The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-11-27
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The novel sight of nix bloomsr
clad women returning from . pros
pecting tour for gold in tho noun
tains Of Shasta county, California,
va seen in Oakland recently. The
face and hands of each Of tho re-
turned argonauts we're tanned 4
deep shade from constant exposure
to the sun, wind and rain, but none
have any trace of having suffered
anything worse from her jaunt over
the mountains in search of the
yellow metal. For two weeks they
tramped over hills. through can.
yons, fording creeks and braying
all the hsrdships incidental to .
prospeotor's life. They arc back
with a record of seven placer and
quartz mines located.
The women were Mrs. May Maui
vais, Mrs. Martha D. Hume, Mrs.
Alma Haden, Mrs. J. Hughes, Mrs.
Etta pemoy and Mrs. Lila Heron.
They left Oakland, each one fully
equipped with a miners outfit.
They returned with hundreds of
pounds of ore samples and gold
they had PANIED from placer claims.
Mrs. Glud has been made president
and Mrs. Hume manager Of the
"Solid Seven Mining Syndicate. .
They have an assay certificate show
ing that some of the ore the ladies
gathered ran $65 to the ton. About
year ago Mrs. Annie Glud discov-
cred placer mine on her ranch
10 miles north Of Redding. Recent
ly she determined to ask q few
friends to go prospecting.
1--WE left here determined to be
our own masters, said Mrs. Martha
Hume. 1--WE decided there was
only one way to do, and that was
to plunge right into the mountains
and find our own mines. We went
together to BEDDING, where we had
shipped supply of provisions and
mining tools. Mrs. CLUBS health
prevented her from roughing it, so
we six left her at the ranch, near
her mine, and started out. Each
one donned bloomers, rough boots
and leggings, mems working shirts
and miners black SLOUGH hats.
Around our waists we strapped
canteens and pans, and with picks
and shovels over our shoulders
headed into the toughest country l
ever saw.
"For days we picked and SHOW
eled at quartz and placer. We
scaled the steep hillsides. At night
we built camp fires, and lived on
bacon, beans and canned goods.
At the Annie Glud mine we made
an extension location. Then we
went into the Buckeye township
region, and there we located six
claims, naming them the Solid
Seven, Santa Clus, Klondike, Little
Gem, Boomer and Ida Belle.
II had an awful fright at Quartz
hill. / had been out alone with my
hammer and pick breaking off out
groupings, when l heard q crashing
through the underbrush above me.
! thought it was a bear and ran to
q tree and was going to climb when
a shrill whistle stopped me. The
noise was caused by Mrs. Hughes
efforts to stop herself in a wild slide
down hill. We passed the cabin of
two old bachelors. They had heard
We were all widows. When we came
back there was big sign hanging
out, "Two Widows Wanted" Our
hands got we'll blistered from using |
the pick and shovel, but 1t was Jolly
fun. We have mines We believe will
make handsome returns. We rode
out from Redding in an axle wagon,
like Indians in the bed of
the springless vehicle that jolted us
along the dusty road. All the ladies
gold"