Show r WOMAN BOSSES MINE Ml b i bi t Heads Corporation Controlled Entirely Entirely En En- f by Her Sex s Operates pea Garnet Gone Mine In Alaska and I v r Lead Zinc and Sliver Silver Mines In Arizona na i y New York From From the far West 4 i there now comes to us the he lady miner 1 Tf T Miss Hiss Anna Durkee organizer and cons con con- s' s lolling strolling element of a corporation corporation cor cor- ru run entirely by women Miss 4 x 4 Durkee operates a garnet mine In InA ini i e t- t A southern Alaska and lead zinc and sil sll- r. r ii ver mines In Arizona She Is the largest lar lar- j f g gr gest est individual mine owner in the Oatman Oat Oat- pr r man district of Arizona and the most t. j J widely k known own wom woman n in the mining I J. J world Ito a J It It was while she wa was in Alaska seven S years ago investigating a proposition 1 I first became be- be b in copper that Miss Durkee i came interested in a garnet mine was given g an nn option on it and fin finally lly took It In the of corporation j jy y over name a dye which had a n board of 15 women 1 tors T At the t e beginning the th mine did not not t seem to amount to a great deal but butas r J as Miss Durkee began to develop th the fh st claim with which the corporation started veins were discovered disco opening f out in every direction and as the work the work r r continued the amazing fact dawned s that the entire mountain was a gigantic gigantic gigan tic mine of the beautiful crystals with j Sa ledges of garnets extending from the s sea a lev level l to a n distance of 36 0 feet up op the moun mountain in sIde side But the greatest value of the deposit i i 2 j J consists In a product by-product of garnet waste waste discovered by Miss Durkee 3 eg r i who passed two years In a chemical n laboratory working it out She had l observed that garnets when milled did r not fuse with iron or brass and followIng followIng following follow follow- ing this up she discovered a new use for for the waste garnet of which there were hundreds of thousands of tons Ground to a certain mesh and put ry through a n secret process the waste g gar garnet gar gar- r. r net makes a n separating powder valuable valuable i able in foundry work she stated t r The garnets of Miss Durkee's mine are of the finest variety e Because of their beauty and hardness geologists have given gi them the name of precious garnets |