The herald., 1895-06-10
THE DESERT QUEEN MINE
Discovered and Worked by the
McHaney Bros.
OHIO, THE YELLOW METAL (!
An Interesting Talk Regarding Gold
Properties
The Taking Of a Big Producer In an Other
wise Undeveloped and Unprospected
District-Prophetic Views

Harry Harrington, broth her-in-law of,
and interested with. the McHaney BROTH
ers, was seen last night by a representa-
tive of The Herald. The family name
MoHaney Bros. is we'll known in South
ern California, and is associated with
recent gold strike which was made by
them. Gold mines as distinct from
prospecting holes, bring premium the
world over.
Good as gold" is phrase grown gray
in active service through centuries. A
large portion of mankind and those tn e
most progressive and highly civilized.
esteem gold as the acme of that which
is most desired IN life and has even built
up for itself religion which teaches that
heavens streets are paved with the pre-
cious metal Let the untutored Indian
after death pursue the bison and the an
telope over grassy, well-watered sweeps,
il he SO desires. Let the oriental pass
an eternity in the luxuriously appointed,
comfort-yieldng apartments. surrounded
by his 1avorite women, II he Will: but
give the Christian gold-gold and plenty
of it. Let him through all time gazs up
on gold. let him touch it, handle it, fon-
die it-let him ever walk upon it, and let
him through an eternity wear crown of
SOlu anu lev Hill SOtlnu HIS uOuTly praises
upon golden harp. He may be satiated
then with the yellow metal; his thirst for
it may then be quenched.
But it is the present time IN which
most people are interested. There is no
future; there is no past. but an eternal
makes the mare so. Silver is good as a
subsidiary coin and for pot metal. bun
money--the money of the great. pulsing,
active. intelligent world, as removed from
the peon -harboring countries of it, is
gold. and the metal itself and the men
who produce it are always interesting.
Mr.. Harrington gave up some very in
teresting information and also ONE very
interesting views which are orthy of
publication. In substance the gentleman
said:
The McHaney properties were discov
on the 22d of February OF the current
year. They consist principally OF four
claims, three of which are upon the same
vein, and upon one OF the latter the
greatest work has been done. 1t is this
one claim that has made these prol critics
more or less famous, and it is OF it prin-
cipally that / shall speak.
1t is known as the Desert Queen, and
is situated thirty miles north OF Indio,
r rough country. At the grass-r roots
the vein was but six inches in width.
On the Desert Queen are two shafts, one
and no drifting done. cannot be worked
on account OF the accumulation of ore at
it's mouth. | should judge that there
are $50 tons of ore that must be moved
before work can be again started in this
shaft. The second Shaft is down seventy
| feet. We expect to run in a tunnel which
will crosscut the shaft at dep II of about
| 100 feet. When this is done we shall
| commence stopping.
| The vein, which on the surface was
six inches III width, is now with the
depth attained thirty-six inches. with
every prospect OF its still further widen
ing. The pitch of the vein at first was
about sixty degrees. We then encounter
ed break. or fault, as it is technically
Termed, beyond which its angle was
somewhere, between forty and forty-ive
degrees. The foot wall is Of granite and
the hanging wall is of porphyry. The ore
body is cecomposed quartz, and is
| essentially free illing dirt, there be-
ing no smelling ore in it. In working
this property we have come across many
The last milling ran better than $500 to
the ton and the average is easily $3.50.
We milled three and quarter tons of
stuff from the Dry Lake Valley mine. an
other claim of ours which adjoins the
Desert Queen and on the same vein,
and got $3.50 to the ton for our net return.
We have plenty of water for all purposes
and plenty of wood for tim berng. We
have built six miles of wagon road. The
nearest mill is Tingman e. Hollands,
twelve miles away from our property.
We have purchased a fives stamp mill and
an engine and boiler capable of running
ten stamps. The machinery is now in
the city, and J. am here to see to
shipping it to its destination. sIxty-fve
or seventy miles from here We have over
400 tons all told OH the dump to COM
mence work upon.
.lr It1,n
Mr. Harrington replied that he would
| much rather not say anything upon that
detail because he would scarcely be be-
lieved. but, he added, the McHaneys and
myself are satisfied with what we have.
What is actually in sight from IA
be much, and for the reason that ours
has been development work only, but the
formation is such and the lodges are such
as to show to almost anyone's satsfac-
tion that we have an immense body OF
mineralized stuff. We have had, among
others, number of Colorado miners
visit our place, and their estimate of ore
in sight ranges all the way from 500, 600
tons up to 100000 tons.
Continuing, Mr.. Harrington said:
''The country all around the Desert
Queen is rich in mineral and is
prospected. Prospectors are beginning to
come in and their umber will continue
to increase. Most of them come from
Riverside. We deposit our metal from
the stamp mill at a bank in that town,
and people who see it OF course have dem
onstrated to them the existence Of free
milling gold propositions in their neigh
borhood, and naturally drift out our way
to look the ground over. The district will
soon be an inviting field for capital. for
beyond question, mills will be established
there following our own, and some of
the finds without doubt will pass into