The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-22

W HhlSNcT AiNohoh oOuiuOuShc teuSh VI together, they speak of Nellie Cashman and acknowledgs that whel | comes to pioneers she is the pre- nier. Miss Cashman arrived in Ji- neau a few days ago and IS now spending a short time in tine city. She came here from the Koyukuk where she has been mining for the past fifteen years on Nolan and Fair Pup Creeks. She is here on busi- ness visit and is staying at the .S;. Ann Hospital.
 Always a pioneer of the West, Miss Cashman said yesterday that she was in Virginia City, Nevada during the great boom days of that camp. After leaving there she and some of her companions went to San Francisco and tossed a coin to determine whether they would go 10 South Africa or Alaska. The coin favored Alaska and she with her companions landed at Fort Wrangell on Christmas Day. 1874 They had with them sixteen hundred pounds of supplies which they were going to take into the Cassiar for the re lief of scurvy stricken miners in that district then in it's prime. They followed the Stikine River to Deese Lake and wero 77 days on the trail dragging their slcds and supplies with them They succored many hungry miners on the trail and in the district. For two years. while in this district. Miss Cashman did not sec white woman.
 Across chikoot
 Always following the rainbow of chance, Miss Cashman crossed the Chilkoot Pass in the days of '97 and since that time has followed every stampede and is known 10 every old time Alaskan. She has always been prospector and mining operator and has sunk prospect holes in every district of the North. Several times she has taken out modest fortunes and then abandoned the worked out claim and mushed to some new Fl dorado. Among those who know her best her judgment of mining claim is always to be depended upon.
 For the past fifteen years she has been working a group of thirteen claims away up. in the headwaters of the Koyukuk. This district is away up beyond the Arctic Circle cut off from civilization, where malls are -infrequent and both mon and women are few. as sa A.j Interesting Personality
 Above all things. Miss Cashman Is intensely patriotic. 1t was she who in the winter of 1918 after the news of the United States entry into the European war had filtered back into the distant camp where she was working, gathered up all the eligible young men in the Koyukuh and headed for the war. She in tended to go to France herself ian1 also to get the young men into the army Arriving at Fort Gibbon, they heard the news of the armistice They had made a winter trip over the snow and ice of several hundred miles. She said yesterday that al though born in Ireland she was an American before she left there. Next to her pride in being an Am erican she is proud of being an Al askan. and the little button that pro claims her a member of the Pioneers of Alaska is one of her dearest pos sessions. She tells with pride of her reception at various towns while ol her way here this winter. At A chorage she was the guest of honJr at special meeting of the order ant met most of the people of the city and it was practically the same whss' ecvr she went. M
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