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Show SHE IS AN EXPERT. . An Oregon Woman Is an Adept Piper 4 1 ' in the Placer Mines. 1 , One of the; very few expert wonian pi- , jJ pers of the West is Mrs. M. E. Moore, 'j , . She is not a piper such as the Scotch' ; ; , Highlander knows, but a piper of th ' Wes-tern hydraulic, placer mines, the ' , operator of a hydraulic giant. , At preyent Mrs. Moore Is her bus- ') band's partner in the working- of the i , Judson placer mines of southern Oregon. t 1 i And Mm Moore is a partner in every J sense of the word, says the Sunset Mag- s 1 j azlne. Every day she is at her post, ta- j ,! kinff- her stand beside the big monitor j long before the sun scares away the r ' shadows from the mountain canyons, J and there she remains through the shift, ; J directing tho shaft of white that the j r;fH monster hurls? with a dash of spray t. U against the towering gravel bank, tear- j ") ingr mountains away and robbing them of their gold. ' 1 ' Few men pipers, who are proud of' i. their long- records of years in Wesrtern !' iil placer fields, nnd likewise their $3 50 per 1 , I day, are more dexterous with the giant t , ; nozzle than Mrs. Moore. She knows , .' Just how to swerve tho defleotor to drive t an avalanche of boulders down the gulch, scattering- them as wildly as a handful of bullets shot from a Gatllng i ', gun; and haw to bring that long, deep I ' growl from the aqueous monster as it U gnaws and cuts deep at the base of the, I , red clay bank, till a great slab of a K - thousand tons topples and falls with a ft IH crash from the mountain Bide and la B , v washed "away through the &luice boxes.- fi." tj, |