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Show YOUNG GIRLS MAKE THEIR MIES FAY JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 12. (By mail.) At Pearl harbor, 40 miles from here, two young women, just out of their 'teens, have for the past four years operated a paying mine. Their sole assistant has been their mother. They operate a two stamp mill and their present ambition is to install a five stamp equipment. These girls are the daughters of the late John G. Peterson, a pioneer who, with Mrs. Peterson, acquired an interest in-terest in some mining properties twenty-six years ago in the Pearl harbor har-bor district. The girls' names are Irma and Margaret. Both were born in Juneau. There is nothing in a mining line that the two young women are not capable of doing from sharpening a steel to shoeing a mule. These things i are everyday affairs with them a part . of the day's work. They built the neat four-room cottage in which they live, getting the timber out of the forest themselves. An inspection of their library shows works on geology, miuerology, petrology, petrol-ogy, mining and milling, and mine management by the best authorities. A number of standard magazines come to them. The girls occasionally take trips. One of these excursions took on the proportions of a tour to Europe. Juneau, the town of their nativity frankly is proud of them. So is Alaska;'"-' r |