CALIFORNIA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 458, 4 March 1867, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

GOLD BY THE HUNDREDWEIGHT, (from the .*i?i California. J A TKLKOBiSt hom a Itiend at Pl.icervllle assures us that gold worth £50,C)0 w. 3 taken from the Woodside quait* mire, near Georgetown, and thrt the miners were " blocking out nearly a pure, soUd mass of gold thiee feet in leng.'h. If such a statement hr A come l orn a ei -vn-'er we should have • eceived it with incredul’iv, but we » in vouch for the si iceiitv and intelligence o" the author o’ the message. The finding of gold in such large m- ses in a lode is wifio.it a p Jlel in the Irgtory of mini'';'. T>'e melal in veins of euli.e ous qar.t.. is usurd'y in gjiah p-.rii-clc. urd •,feces r e ve-v seldom o t m e d wei liing n'o .e than a few ounces. IN-o----b-ih'y e h ;e : >irce o’ gold herein, o. e lakrn o n rny lode in tlfj St te did not wei-_,h mo c tn.-n a pound. Hut ou* telegram men - o is 0"e oht Ved Li t'-e VVoodsido in ne. weighing IF 'po inds, and il rs imp! . .1 th t the iF.eco tli, - 3 ’org w-’ii we h vr.y much reoe.

Tlie 1 ■ ye nuyyets however which hrve been found in (lie placetj must b. ve corre From qne ir. veins. Austialia p.oduccd one nn get we’Jting about 225 pounds ; and m 1854 a lump of ICO pounds wrsobt med in Calave.. * county j and tb’sSt.'te has p oduced a muhitude of nuggets we : gh'ng ten or twenty pounds. All these must have come from quertz veins, and surpiise has been expresird by several w. iters that the p iticle: of the precious metal fouiiu in oiflode minesaie so small. If the recounts 1 oin the Woodside mine should &e venficd, onr 1? ge mass of gold must ifeiealier be credited, not to placer deposits, but to quartz.

It is worthy of note that the Sonoia Democrat of the 3rd Nov. asserted that in the previous w.-ek some Italirns hi d found a streak of gold four inches thick, in a quartz mine ot Deer Flat, Tuolumne county, and had to cut out the metal with c >ld chisels. This report wn * considered s > improbable that it scarcely deserved repetition, but it may be true for a'l that. A number of the quartz mines of the State are yielding better now, at r.reat depths, than ever before, and the confirmation of tlv*sc statements from Georgetown and Deer Flat would assist to give a new im■ui Ise to the branch of mining which must b • the chief reliance of our gold miners in the future.