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.