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Show WOMAN HAS CLAIM ON GLACIER. Expects to Dig Some' Precious Ore from Her Moving Mining Property. Mr. Mury E. Hart, formerly of Lea Angeles, Cal., who has Just returned re-turned to Seattle nftor visiting Alaska, has tho distinction of being tho nrst I person to Btnko out a mining claim on a glacier whllo It was still In action. ac-tion. Sidney Molse. with tho local architect archi-tect llrm of Hunt & Gray, was on board the Seattle, which has Just returned re-turned from a trip to the Klondike, and he Btates that for the first time la nine years passengers were ablo to mako a landing at Mulr glacier, near Skagway. The glacier Is considered far from sate, but Mrs. Hart, with natural love of adventure, stepped triumphantly ashore, and was followed by others eager for tho experience of landing upon tho forbidding Ice field. It was found that tho moraine, a deposit freighted with precious ore, which is always carried with tho lco In this section, had already become quite solid, aud Mrs. Hart forthwith staked out a claim. Mrs. Hart has passed a number of years In Alaska and Is conversant with the mining situation there, having hav-ing owned and superintended the work In several claims. In order to gain experience sho at ono time worked with a pick in her own mlno. |