The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-03
SHE " MINERS
The Lady -Prospector'' Returns 70
Bullfrog for Supplies

Burlfrog for Supplies
The t.Iady prospeetor,'' Miss Lillian
X. Malcolm, who three weeks az
went on q Death valley prospecting
"trip, accompanied by George fege.'
Tom McCabe and Tony McCauiey, re-
turned to Bullfrog on Monday, says
the Bullfrcg Miner. -.
The party is said not to have dweit
together in that perfect unity wnacn =
said to be characteristic OF the angelic
hosts. In fact, the party was "sll
sniff ND the back, before It had been
out two weeks. Mss Malcolm anu
George Peget returned in a body, put
the other two members of the party
preceded in rather desultory order.
Perhaps the main cause of this was
tho fact that the party had bad luck
nth ira horses and mules. The third
Idav ont two horses were lost in Death
valley and later on some OF the PACK
mules got sick.
Either one of the "lady prospec-
tor 3" party could tell enough to MAKE
interesting reading, If he Tor she)
would. but each is exasperatingiy
silent. Even the ''lady prosPeetor
so far forgot her feminine self as 10
refuse to talk about the party, exeopt
to say that when she went on a pros
Ipecting party again she would leave
the nursing bottle behind.
But Miss Malcolm has not abandon,
ed Death valley. In fact, il b and
George Peget had good luck, both are
across the valley and in the Panamint
at this writing, for the two only re-
NAMED in Bullfrog long enough on
Monday to get supplies and new mules
They will Join "Shorty' Harris at
Harrisburg, and together the three WIN
90 to the scene OF a new strike In tne
Panamint that Harris has just maze
Miss Malcolm became enthusiastic ta
she spoke about the latest Harris
strike, but she would not say, even II
she knew, where it was, except that =
was .sacross Death valley In the a
amint.'
Miss Malcolm was seen at the Mer-
chants hotel, where she stops when In
Bullfrog. 49,.
"The grandest and healthiest life
KNOWN" remarked the ''lady prospec.
tor" sis this rough pioneer life. And
III don t see why more women are not
out in the hills It ought to be a. easy
and natural for women to read rocks
as it is for astronomers to read the
stars. The day will come when they
will not sheer at Miss Malcolm. They
will not pick up their skirts when
come around. Disgusting convention
atty must pay the penalty in any
pioneer work.
81 love the prospectors. They wouii
die in a pinch for their companions.
Here let me say that if merchants
think anything is good enough for the
prospector, they are mistaken. The
~prospector should have the best and
most nutritious food, and the merchant
who palms off the rotten stuff on a
prospecting party will lose business.
"The higher branches of mining of
fer great inducements to ONE
don t mean the kind of work l am do
ing. But there is surveying and draft
ing, the study of mineralogy and
geology. 1t is clean, honest money.
There is too much hypocrisy in the
sexes. Woman can endure as much as
a man. Comply with the law and you
will have mans responsibilities and
man 3 reward.
HThere are no embarrassing circum-
stances for me as a ~prospector. | am
as safe in camp as | would be at home.
The rough exterior of the p%rospector
usually covers a Chesterfield.