The herald., 1895-07-27
DEATH ON THE DESERT
This Almost Came to Pass Quite
Recently
An Interesting Letter From the Desert Queen
Neighborhood-AD District Exceeding
Rich In GoId-The Letter

The following is an interesting letter
from the immediate neighborhood Of the
McHeney brothers, bonanza gold mine
nea- Indio, which neigh borhood or dis
trict is claimed by experts to be the rich
est gold region in the country.
M'HANEY'S CAMP, CAL, July o1.-
Matters in camp are progressing nicely.
McHaney Bros stamp mill is up and
has been running three days. and every
thing vent off like clockwork. The mil
was just put up by the Baker from works
OF Los Angeles, under their able mill
man, Mr.. John Small. The ore we are
now milling is high grade. At present
they are running only day stamps, the re
being about 35 men at work at the mine.
McHaney Bros. have built ssveral adobe
buildings, and in the near future will
build more. Mr.. Harry Harrington of
Los Angeles is in charge of the mine.
Mr.. Bledsoe, an attorney from Los An
geles has been prospecting here for some
time, and has several promising claims.
The Lost Horse mine has become the
property Of Thomas Ryan of Kansas City,
he bought his partner out, Mr.. Lang of
Los Angeles. Mr.. Ryan will now push
work; his mine is looking good and he
is practical mining man.
Tingman and Holland s mill IS running
steady. They are doing development
work on what promises to be big thing,
a claim called the Hexe.
ProspectUrs are not so thick here at this
time of the yeal on account of the search
ty of water.
Messrs. Barber and Harmon of East Los
Angeles are here. Mr.. Barber claims to
be able to locate oil, mineral and water
with the aid OF forked stick, but he has
worked here go far with poor success.
They have sunk about 40 feet but have
not got water though the stick indicated
water at Is feet. They nave the best
wishes of everyone in camp, as water is
the one thing needed to make this great
place.
Mr.. Mcmillan and Jackson will COM
c,ence work on the Eagle Cliff mine on
the 23rd. There are parties from San
Bernardino working very rich placer
the Desert Queen. They have taken consid-
cradle gold out; it is clay. not sand. The
work on the Desert Queen is going along
finely, two shafts are down, one over a
hundred feet and one ninety feet, and
the ore is high grade from the grass roots
down.
Lost On the Desert
w. S. Forrest and R.W. Keeler recent
ly started from here to Twenty nine
Palms, which is about fourteen miles
south of here, and tney got lost and wan
dered around all day, their water giving
out about noon, and they suffered very
much. About 10 p. NJ. one of them
reached camp and was so weak that he
fell exhausted in front Of the tent and
called for water. Il is tongue was swollen.
and SO soon as he recovered enough
strength to speak he told OF his partner
being about three miles down the canyon.
A searching party composedyot o. T.. Nc
William and Lee Jackson took water and
went after him. and found him complete
ly aYhauSto6 and hiS rlnthino
They had quite a time in reaching camp
with him. These parties are electricians
from Los Angeles and also amateur pho
tographers. They started over to Twenty
nine Palms to take pictures of that place
and had a very close call. will send this
off on freight train today. 1t may take
three or four days to reach Los Angeles.