White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-01-04
GIRL WORKS ISLAND
CLAIM IN FAR NORTH
Canadian College Graduate
Lives in Cabin.

Toronto.-Women are sitting on the
top of the world" in many fields OF
activity, but to Miss Kathleen Rice,
graduate of the University Of Toronto.
goes the unusual distinction of active
operations as mining prospector.
Mining is one of the chief topics of
conversation in Canada at present, but
while the home woman, the business
woman and the professional woman
| discuss how many shares of this or
that they own, Miss Rice is working
her claim. Her part in the romance
of mining is definite one. At pres.
ent her base camp is on an island in
Herb lake, or to use the more melodi.
Gus Indian name, Wekusko lake,
northern Manitoba. From this base
she has worked since 1921. Here she
lives in log cabin that hanks back
to the days of the pioneers, and here
size pioneers on one of her most prom
Using claims, copper and nickel vein
on an island, within a stones throw
of her cabin. Hard work has been
tangled up in the romance, and Miss
Rice had considerable difficulty In
proving the claim. Now, however, she
is receiving encoura cement, for engi-
neers on the ground have pronounced
the prospects good.
Totes Gun.
Kathleen Rice is one of those "girls
of the great open spaces who tote
guns" seen often on the screen as be-
| ing typical of Canada, but very rare,
indeed, in the Canada of real life.
Most women would be satisfied to gain
distinction in mans field by prospect
ing in the summer, but Miss Rice adds
further laurels to her. outdoor reputa-
ton by trapping in the winter. In
this way she actually is successful
enough to make her stake for summer
| operations While she uses gun like
a veteran, she never shoots for sport.
Once, when a moose fell to her rifle
she preserved the meat for future use.
Devotion to animals is one of Miss
Rice's outstanding characteristics. Al
ways, in the North, she is seen with
| huOWu NY uCl lOluOuS uo5Ss ~
spite the unwritten law Of the north
| country, she ignores and never uses
the lash. In this matter she has the
full approval of the dogs, who not
only shower her with devotion but re-
pay her by being the best trained dogs
within hundreds Of miles.
Lone Venture.
1t is now Is years since Miss Rice,
daughter of Henry Lincoln Rice, B. A.,
Of Toronto, went North on lone ven.
ture. The spirit Of adventure was
financed by college chum from Chi
cago, who staked her when she home
steaded in the name of her brother,
linccln Rice, Of st. Marys, Ontario.
The young Canadian girl was tired of
cities and classrooms. She longed for
the North; felt "the call Of wind-swept
places" so she left her position as q
mathematics specialist in an Ontario
high school and hiked to an unknown
land. The rest of the story Is TEEN
ing with adventure; her richest gold
quartz claim is on the shore of Herb
lake, in the line of strike with the
Bingo, Rex and Kinski mines. Be-
cause Starr is family name, she calls
It the Starr claim. The name con.
meets the Rice family with the earliest
New England settlement This claim
shows not only gold but other high
mineral values. She was one of the
first prospectors in the North to find
vanadium.