The Nevada journal., 1851-04-19

NEW CoYoTA DIGGINGs.-The system Of
deep mining, which has been SO successfully
pursued in this vicinity has been attempted
with very fatterine prospects in the neighbor-
hood of Georgetown, between the South and
middle forks Of the American river. There i.
very good reason for believing that careful
research, in other sections Of the gold region
both north and south of this place, will de.
velopo m ny del osits of equal, if not superior
richness to those which haze been so success
| fully worked in this vicinity We have been
Informed that some "diggings" of this des.
! cription were opened last fall near Hangtown
which promised we'll Whether the anticipa.
'ions OF those who were engage in those ope.
'ations Were fully realized or not, we have
never learned. If any person is in possession
OF information in regard to the matter, whe.
ther favorable or adverse, we should esteem
1t an especial favor if he would communic ate
it for the columns Of the Journal. 1t is our
Intention at an early day, to prepare full
account of the CoyotaDiggings in this vicinity
! which will pc accompanied with a detailed
report OF tie Geology and Topograpy of
the neighbt hood The deep tunnels and
shafts with (Which the mountains in this
vicinity are Everywhere pierced afford rare
opportunitie{ for the necessary explorations
Inc Geolgy of this neighborhood, if the
slight obser' ations which we have been able
10 make do got deceive us, is somewhat an.
omolous. Cne Of the most peculiar charac-
tcristics OF tns locality, and one which first
attracts the auention cf the careful observer.
Is the powerh catalytic forces which have
been, and prt bably are still in operation in
THIS vicinity, Through this agency almost
the entirs nle lying body of granite has
secn rendered entirely plastic-so much so,
that IN many places itmay easily be moulded
by the hand, into any desired shape. The
veins OF quarx, also, by which the granite is
pierced at free Bent intervals, are universally
found IN sfi r of decomposition, so much
so fhar in IN my places, especially in the
Gold Tunnel, I may be readily removed by
the shovel al tne, and worked in pan or
rocker, hike tie soil on the river banks
1t is probable THAT the causes which have
produced this disintcgraton of the original
granite forma6on may also have acted as an
agent in forming the rich mineral deposites
which are everywhere found Immediately
OVERLAPPING that formation. The close prox-
unity of the richest deposites 10 the immedi-
ate surface of the decomposcd granite go far
to sustain such an hypothesis. The fact that
none of the gold taken from the Coyota Dig.
gngs has the appearance of being subjected
to any process of attrition, is also further
and still more important evidence in favor of
this supposition. Itappears to lay in patches
as If formed where it lies, by some chemical
agency, operating from all directions alike
rather than from electric currents according 10
the generally received notion; and is never
found in leads as would naturally be the case
were it removed from lis original locality and
deposited by the action of running water
These "diggings" are decidedly the most re-
markable which have been yet discovered in
Calitornia-indced, nothing in the whole histo-
ry of mining ancient or modern can combare
with them. But we are making leader of
what we intended for an item. We shall speak
more fully of this interesting locality after we
have had more leisure for examination.