The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-04
MISS CASHMAN
 HOLDS RECORD
 WOMAN MUSHER


 it comes to pioneers she is the pre- mier Miss Cashman arrived Ill Ju- neau few days ago and is now spending a short time in the city says the Empire. She is here on a business trip from the KoyuI1uk where she has been mining for the past fifteen years on Nolan and Fair Pup creeks.
 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 ot her companions went to San Fran cisco and tossed a coin b determine Africa or Alaska. The coin favored Alaska and she with her companions lar ded at Fort Wrangell on Christ mas Day, 187i. They had with them siXt cen hundr0 pounds of supplies which they were going to take into the Cassiar fo' the relief of 5curvv stricken miners in that district then in it's prime. They follow ed the Sti- kine river to DCeSe lake and were 77 days on the trail dragging their sleds and supplies with them. They succored many hungry miners on the ctrint years, while in this dictrict, Miss Cashman did not see a white woman.
 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 to 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 mails are infrequent and both men and women are few.
 Above all things, Miss Cashman is intensely patriotic. It 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 Koyukuk and head ed for the war. She intended to go to France herself and also get the young men into the army. Arriving at Fort Gibbon. they heard the news of the armistice. They had made a winer trip over the snow and ice of several hundred miles. She said that although born in Ireland, she was an American before she left there.
 Next to her pride in being an Aemerican she is proud of being an Alaskan. and the little button that proclaims her a member of the Pio- neers of Alaska is one of her dear est possessions. She tells with pride of her reception at various towns while on her way here this winter At Anchorage she was the guest of honor at a special meeting of the order and met most of the people of the city and it was practically the same wherever she went.
 Tell the boys that I can still take the trail and no one has ever passed me yet on a long mush. still can drive the dogs and use the snow shoes and that no one will ever have
 
 break trail for me. When feel that I can no longer keep up I will keep off the trail. But that will be many years hence," said this active woman of over sixty years of age as her bright eyes sparkled. q traveller many many miles this winter from the Koy- ukuk over the winter trails and out to the coast by way of the Broad Pass and I held my own with all of them" she continued, and I would like to say a word for the boys of Alaska tEat although I have travelled thous- ands of miles with them on the win ter and summer trails in all kinds of conVeyances and roughed it with them I have never yet been insulted by one of them"
 Miss Cashman looks many years younger than her sixty odd vaars and