Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1912 — Woman to Be an Engineer [ARTICLE]

Woman to Be an Engineer

Has Had Much Experience With Her Father in Ore Districts—He Will Coach Her. Spokane, Wash. —Randle Jeldness of this city, who was graduated recently from an eastern college for women, has decided to become a mining engineer under the tutelage of her father, Olaus Jeldness, known as a successful operator in the foremost camps of Colorado, Nevada, Washington and British Columbia. , Miss Jeldness was initiated in the dry ore district, north of Bear Dake, in the Canadian province, where, with her father, she ascended a mountain rising 8,500 feet above sea level, making the trip with a pack over a trail through the heavy timber. Afterward they attended several

sessions of the western branch of the Canadian Mining Institute at New Denver, B. C., where> some of the most prominent mining engineers and managers in the Canadian northwest encouraged the girl’s undertaking, saying it offers exceptional opportunities and advantages for those who are not afraid of hard work and pays the highest remuneration of any of the professions in America for intelligent and persistent effort.