New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-18
A WOMAN MINER.
SHE THINKS HER SEX Is CAPABLE OF SUCCESS
IN THAT CALLING.
From The San Francisco Chronicle.

From The San Francisco Chronicle.
During the last few days Mrs. 4. X. Rikert
known the woman miner of Tuolumne, has been
fourteen years steadily has she been prospecting
and devel oping different properties ana IN that
mines of California, from one or two OF which
nearly 100000 has been taken Among these
gres Silver IS se mine but Mrs Rkert does no, nine
for silver alone Mrs; Rikert has also been Singh
OF the first who went to the new Alamo dggings
in Lower California, where she developed valuable
The woman miner who has had such Iemarka;
the Pine BIanco gold mine. near the Rawhide IN
Tuolumne County. which now shows an enormous
bssve Of m TiS anf EpSn
Mrs Rikert told the strange story Of how she
she is Southern lady, and has that dislike
which Of the South Sou have She being s prob a:
dark, sometimes flashing. eyes. and has the enun-
citation which tells where her early life was spent.
81 am the daughter OF a cotton-planter near vcKs.
burg, and was early taught how TO, ride horse.
shoot and do many of the things which only youn3
slaves As Annie Kline will be nv recalled i,s f fSr y:
@ v6 69h eq maS We Cook
Fourteen years ago I came to the new mining:
was to be done To this end began to carefully
study mining. II was a very rich silver camp. and
and to make tests of the leiges which had found.
II assure you ] am very much more particular
when | go out to prospect than many men are who
go TO look for Indications Often whore men walk
right the v SP ana par % %h eToaS
chopping away brush and using pick and shovel
IT was while prospecting in this way that found
the famous Alhambra mine, which proved 10 have
s5Ss by 2rS he as e GA stow TIL this % e
became part Of the great Silver Odessa, Of which
Among the mines was the enormous borax mine
bought by William Ayord and jerome Lincoln and
il came INTO the hands of Avori ana Lncsin has
been increased year by year, until now the works
erected on 1t are the largest Of any either in Europe
AT the time of the rush to the gold fields o,
go there. 7 had become well known in Calico. md
many Of the miners believed from my successes
cot. They often wanted me 10 make locations for
them. I was two years, at Alamo and did pretty
However. hearing of the interest that being
taken in the mines Of the mother lode. and want
ing. like the typical prospector. to be in the
rise I came three years ago to Tuolumne County.
We struck 1t just in time, and got in before the
rush. We drove all the way from Alamo 10 TOu-
lumne in little wagon drawn by two ponies.
Going eight miles west Of Sonora, near Column
bia and only short distance from the Rawhids
mine came across cSod the Pine Ba9co then idle
and we had ali the advantages which such oppor.
The claim had a little old tunnel on it and
over with a kind of greasewood. Through this
10 by on m bese
new tunnel east OF the apex of the hill.
AT sixty-three feet We tapped the ledge. Then
we ran west and cross-cut for sixty-sx feet. and
have not got through yet. II Is solid qIartz
ledge. The ore has been carefully tested several
times. by spreading piece OF canvas and carefully
picking out ore all over the face OF the working
II has been found satisfactory that millions are
estimated to be in the mine.
II know no reason why woman may not learn
mining, and make great a success OF II as any
man. The information is open to all l think
woman may be az good prospector, and even bet.
ter. than a man. for she is more discriminating and
particular. In all my experiences in the so-caled
rough mining camps have always been treated
with great courtesy by the miners"