The herald., 1895-01-18
THE MINES OF RASPER CANYON.
Newly Discovered Diggings in
the Panamint Range.
A Woman Miner and Her Work in
the New Camp.
The New Find IL Located so Miles From
Red Rook and Is said to Do
Immensely Rtch.

Away mp In the Pansmint mountains,
surrounded on one side by dreary
waste of alkali ana sand and on the 9th
or by tbs rugged hills OF La Panza, there
is . woman miner. She is perhaps the
only one OF her sex in the west that has
engaged in practical mining for q living,
and no similar Gaze 10 recalled in any
other part of the country. This woman,
with her nus band, vas among tho first 90
brave she foods snd go to the gold fields
near Enneneda, in Baja California; she
WAS one OF the frat to prospect at Van
dsrbilt; she rushed to the fields at Goler
and Red Rock with the asgernees OF
niser, and now abe is found among tho
wilds and Businesses of this Pansmint
range prospecting, locating claims and
experimenting several new mines, some
OF which she found, filed upon and
worked with her own hands. And
more modest, refined or cultured womsn
is hard to find.
That woman is the wifa of DR.. A. r.
Garrison. formerly of this CITY. To her
love for adventure, to her perseverance
and sptnese az minerslogist the new
mines in the Panamint range owe thsir
discovery and development to large
extent. For 80 or go miles about the
Eew mines there ia scarcely man,
much less woman, and only now and
then, with tho melting of the anowa, does
anyone from the outside ever reach the
new camp.
Mrs. Garrison 10 the heroina Of the
camp, and more interchangeable worker
would be hard to find.
While the mines have only recently
been discovered they srs already pam
ming out we'll. Mrs. Garrison has two
several more. H. II. Benedict, L. S.
Ross and J. @. Rice, all OF this city.
have numerous claims, which they say
srs worth many thousands of dollars.
The mines are rich in quartz that carries
gold in large quantities. Assays show
that it runs from $40 to $500 per ton.
A Mexican known only as John" was
recently offered $4,000 for gold claim
that has been quietly worked long
enough to bring out its value.
Mr.. L. 8. Ross, who is friend of J.
q. Rice, at Ill West Second atreet, has
just returned from the mines, where he
went two months ago, before shs enow
became 20 feet deep in she mountains.
His long absence was noted in THE
HERALD few days ago. He expects TO
return to the mines early next week.
Tho mines are located" said Mr..
Ross to a reporter for The HERALD last
night, ''in La Panzs mountains, be.
tween the Slate and Pansmins ranges.
We 70 by the way of Mojave to Red
Rock, and from the latter mines it ia
exactly 30 miles to the new La Panza
or har n
over 5000 feet above sea level
''At this season, of course, snow is on
the ground, but there has been little
hindrance to work on that account,
The principal trouble is the snow block.
ing the way out In q few weeks VIC
anticipate fine weather out hers, and
then you will hear of some work.
You want to know OF the woman
miner, Ell? Well. Mrs. Garrison ard
Mr.. Garrison Say that ss soon as the
weather breaks they will erect a ten.
stamp mill. They are jubilans over the
prospects and are going to stick by their
claims. Mrs. Garrison has the honor Of
finding mine which looks as though it
will bring her fortune. The rack
shows free gold in big Jumps, and tbs
whole country seems to be fall Of such
lodges.
O0VolOpmCAb 10 tu0 HbW mlHgE
need. Mexicans have been quietly
working srastres in the cation for
months with good success, snd one or
two OF them have made considerable
money. Unlike Goler and Red Rock,
there has bsen but little placer gold
found, but nearly every ladge carries
geld In big qusDtisieu. Rasper c.fon,
81 the place 10 called where the z1ines
are located, promises TO be es fsmoue
and much more lasting, than any of the
other digRings discovered Of recent
years."
Unlike Red Rosk and Goler, there are
no promises that La Panzs is born 10
die In a day. The most significant
thing about the new diggings, however,
is the notices BILE dssrth of the sxceases
which long sgo gave Bodie and Comstock
the eupbonicgs sitla OF Ill On earth.''
AZ old Fsday Murphy. the oracle of the
camp, would say: "Divil bette to att
ur SUP 60 drink, nor Il sthiver TO buy
either uid-Rn' there haaa't bin g
kiilin' in tin dsysl It's vaTtuous
camp FROM fooros av necshiasi:y, SO tic.
We have no fur ct all-nos aiven the
divarahuE CT ge.tin' drunk"
LETTER BAG.