Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-01-26
RASTER CANYON MINES
Newly Discovered Diggings ill the Panamint Range.-A Woman Miner and her work
 in the New Camp.
The New Find Is Located 50 Miles From Red Rock and Is Said to
 be Immensely Rich
h. A. Herald ]

Away up in the Panamint mountains
 surrounded on one side by dresry
 waste of alkali and sand and on the
 other by the rugged hills of La Panzs
 there is woman mi CT. She is per
 hsps the only one of her sex in the west
 that has engaged in practical mining for l a living and no similar cese is recalled in any other part of the country. This | woman, with her husband, was among the first to brave the floods and go tu the gold fields neor Ensenda, in Baja California; she was one of the first to prospect at Vanderbilt; she rushed to the fields at Goler and Red Rock with the eagerness of a miser, and now she is found among the wilds and fastnesses of the Panamint range prosps citing, To eating claims ard experimenting several Gew mines, some of which she found, | liied upon and worked with her own | hands. And more modest, refined UT cultured woman IS hard to find. That woman IS the wife of Dr. A. R. Garrison, formerly of thls city. To her love for adventure, to her per, everance and aptness us a mineralogist the new mines in tbe PanamiDt range owe their discovery and development to large ex- tent. For 50 or 60 miles about the new mines there IS scarcely mau much less a woman, ana only now and then, with the meeting of the SHOWS, does anyone from the outside ever reach the new caml.
 Mrs. Garrison is the heroine of the camp, and a more indefatigable worker would be hard to ind.
 While the mines have only recently Oeen discovered they are already pam nIag out well. Mrs Garrison has two or three claims ard her husband has several more. H. H. Benedict, l.. $. Rose and J. c. Rice, all Of th 8 city, uave numerous claims, which they say are ~orth inany thousands of dollars. Ths mines are rich in quartz that car ries gold in large quantities. Assays show that 1t runs from S20 to $500 per ton, A Mexican known only as ''John" was recently offered S12, 900 for gold claim that has been quietly worked lCrg enough to bring out its value.
 Mir. l. S. Ro-s. who is friend of J. c. Rice, gt III West Second street, has just F turned from the mines, where he vert two months ago, before the snow became 20 feet deep in the mountains. His long absence was noted Tn The Herald few days ago. He expects to return to the mines early next week.
 "The mines are located" sad Mir. Ross to a reporter for The Herald last uIght, ''in La PaDza mountains between the Slate and Panamnt ranges. We go by the way of Mojsve to Red Rock, and from the latter mines it Is exactly 90 miles to the new La Panza diggings. When you get there you are over 5000 feet above sea level.
 "At this season, of course, snow is on the ground, but there has been little niodrance to work on that account. The principle trouble IS the snow block ng the way out In a few weeks We anticipate fine eather out here, and then you will hear of some work.
 "You want to know of the woman miner, eh? We'll, Mrs. Garrison and Mr. Garrison say that as soon as the Teath ar permits they will erect ten stamp null. They are ubilant over the proa- poets and are going to stick by their claims. Mrs. Garrison has the honor of finding a mine which looks Rs though it will bring her fortuEe. The rock shows free gold in big Jumps, and the whole country seems to b. full of such !ecges.
 development is all the nuw mines need. Mexicans have been quietly working arsetres in the canon for mon- ths with good success, and one or two of them have made considerable money Unlike Goler and Red Rock. there has been but lit placer gold found, but nearly every ledge carries gold in big quantities. Rasper caEon, as the place IS called where the mines are located, promises to be as famous and much more lasting, than any of the other dig gines dircovered of recent years."
 Unlike Red Rock and Goler, there are no promises that La Panza IS born 10 die in a day. The most significant thing about the new diggings, however, is the noticeable death of the excesses which long ago gave Bodie and Com stock the euphonious title of HI on earth" Az old Paddy Murphy, the oracle of the camp. would say: ''Dlvil boite to ate UT a sup to dhrink, nor a sthiver to buy aither wid-an' there hasn't bin kilin' in tin daysl It's vartuous camp from foorce av pecshissity so tis. We have no fun at all-not alven the divarshun of gettin' dhrunk."