The herald., 1895-06-06
A Novel Field OF Operation for
the Sex
MRS. GARRISON, PROSPECTOR
She Appreciates Stained Rock and Dearly
Loves Float
Eight Years in the Business-The Last six
Months of Hardship and Isolation and
the Results From 1t

The new woman is fixture in the So
cial and commercial schemes of the pres
ent and future. How far she may go in
her career OF independence of man is
probematical at best. and has no bearing
uron what, u little later, follows. She
has invaded almost every field, and ii
may be added. with success; but who has
heard of woman prospector and miner?
By this is meant not the woman who Is
intesting herself in the mining enter
prises of her husband or father or brother
or sweetheart, but woman who make it
her business to tramp over the foothills
and mountains around with q pick and
hammer and when stained rock or other
good indications are presented to stay
with them until either the gorund is
abandoned or is decorated with shaft or
tunnel and the pay streak definitely as
certained and then put in shape for a
purchaser; or. again. recognizing float
when she sees it. to know exactly what
method to pursue in order to learn its
yield to the ton. TO study we'll its charac-
ter and formation and trace it to source
and to develop that source.
Mrs. Garrison is such woamn. This
lady has followed the business for eight
and enterprise has been rewarded with
a fair measure OF prosperity. This lady
has Just returned to the city from her
rOIertes in the Argus range OF noun
tains, ninety miles northeast OF Molave,
and east of the Salt Well valley in the
Mountain Spring canyon, about two hum
dred miles from Los Angeles. She was
found at room 6. 1l3 West Second street.
yesterday afternoon. busy IN showing
three or four men. prospective investors
perhaps. her many samples OF gold bear
ing rock. In reply to inquiries 1T was
leaned that in the last six months IN
which she has been IN the conyon
different claims and has done de-
velopmeent work on each. The one
receiving the most attention at her hands
and the hands of men employed and di-
rected by her. has shaft down upon II
of 100 feet in depth, and at the bottom OF
which are two drifts. one Of them sixty
feet and the other forty reet in length
All of the claims are upon what is be-
lieved to be true tissure veins, the walls
being of shale, diOrite or greensboro and
granite principally the latter.
The veins themselves range in width at
the top from six inches to ten feet, and
as depth is attained they increase. and
assays show the ore bodies to become
richer. They run northeast and south
west and have dip of from fifty-five to
eighty degrees. The pay dirt will aver
age it IS claimed. $25 to the ton. though
OUTSIDE of this average there are chin
neys and pockets that will run as high as
$1,000 to the ton. 1t is essentially free
gold proposition, and needs but stamp
mill to begin the work of pounding out
gold. OF course, with all this develop
ment Mrs. Garrison has hau but little
time Tor Stopping. but she has on the
dump at the mouth of the 100 foot shaft
large amount OF ore in sacks. Water
and timber. she says, are abundant. The
nearest stamp mill at the present time
is thirty miles distant, but she hopes to
soon have one on the ground. To secure
this is one object she has in visiting this
city at the present time. Many Of the
samples showed free gold to the unas-
sisted eve.