Old Mines of Southern California / Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties

by William H. Storms; Harold W. Fairbanks

THE WALKER CLAIM.

Within a mile of the Menifee, in a northeasterly direction, a new discovery was made in the spring of 1892 of a quartz vein which occurs on a low mound at the base of low, rolling hills. The vein was small, 4 inches to a foot, quite heavily mineralized, but much broken. Two distinct faults occurred in a length of 90 feet, where the vein had been exposed. Two shafts were down 30 feet each, and water was coming in. The finding of specimen rock had created quite an excitement in the vicinity, and visitors were numerous. The rock, I judged, would pan out about $40, but too small an amount of work had been accomplished to make any estimate of the value of the vein possible.