"On the east side of the Magdalena mountain the head of a woman can be
made out. The shrubs on the mountainside have grown around a rocky
outcroppin' and it sure does look like a woman's face. In its lonesome
settin' this mountain stirred up good feelin' in the Spaniards, and they
called it our Lady of Magdalena.
"An old miner explained, 'There's never been murder done in that mountain!
Even an Apache won't kill an enemy if he can get within the shadow of
the woman's face. Our Lady, we pray you'll lead us to the Lost Canyon
Diggins. We don't ask to get rich out of 'em, but we would sure like to
be the ones to locate 'em.'"
Quoted from "The Story of the Lost Canyon Diggings", in BLACK RANGE TALES, a
chronicle of sixty years of life in the Southwest, by James A. McKenna,
published by Wilson-Erickson in 1936. This is part of a story told
by pioneering miners in 1877 about searching for the lost Schaeffer
Diggings (never found to this day!)