Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-02-20

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Pittsburgh to st. Louis.
CALlFoRNrA MArrERs.-By letters received
yesterday from the land of gold, We learn that
the season, as with us, has been extremely cold,
retarding mining operations, and in many in
stances causing total suspension. In Nevada
county, operations in the mines, on account of
the cold, arc confined almost entirely to Quartz
Rock, while many of the inhabitants arc devo-
ting their attention 10 getting out wood and lum-
Der A Quartz ledge of unparalleled richness
has lately been found in Allison's Ranch on
Wolf creek. 1t is owned by six Cornishmen,
who have had sixty-two tons of the rock crush
ed, which yielded $50, 900, The ledge can be
traced on the groupings for many miles, and
since this large yield, many others have struck
it equally as rich, and at considerable distances
from the CoruiShlner's place,
One of our letters says ''that anentirely new
style Of diggings have lately been discovered,
called IS Table Mountains They are located
along the foothills, and probably extend the
entire length of the State, and receive their
name from the great resemblance they have, when
viewed from distance, to "a dinner table with a
white cover that reaches to tho floor, they being
covered over with washed white quartz boulders.
Into one of these hills, seven miles long by
three wide located three miles north of Feather
River, and thirty five miles N. w. of Marysville,
y. company has been formed to run tunnel
through the rim rock, all of which will have to
be blasted out for many hundreds of feet 1t
would be folly to tell all the hopes of this COM
pany, from prospects taken, which have been
from five dollars pan on the topof the gravel,
to actual shovels full on the bed rock"
We would be much obliged to our correspon-
dent for only taco shovels full, from as close to
the rocks. as possible He says he is one of the
hopeful company, and should he this time fail,
oldest Inhabitants" We certainly wish him
and his whole company the best of luck in their
new kind of diggings
Some of our readers, no doubt, have heard of
"Old Block" Gods, how wcwould like to see his
be-bearded face once more, and shake our sides
ut his laughsble sayings, We are glad to hear
Of him again. Our correspondent, writing from
Grass, Valley says
"'Oll Block whom you probably recollect
very well is still fixture in the office Of Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Express aud Banking House Of
this place, and as of old, is still to be read in all
the papers of the States, and this particularly.
He is now making a funny themeout of life in
the dry diggings, No one has given our town
more notoriety than he has, unless perhaps it
was the divine Lola Monies but then their
style is so very different. While we read the
former, laugh, and admire his wit. We are actu-
ally surprised and frightened at the antics OF
the.latter. However, while Lola is at Sidney
and Calcutta, we still have our good '0ld Block.
So mote it be" q
We hope "Old Blocks will occasionally re,
memberu us inthc shape Of some of his laugha-
bic sketches
The body of John Campbell, who was drown
ed in Bear River by heupsetting ola coach in
which he was passenger, was found about the
18th of January. robbed of a gold watch and q
considerable sum Of gold which he carried or
his person. His relatives reside some twelvey
miles southeast of Cambridge, Ohio, at or neal
Buffalo ~
THE SHARKS FRozES.-It is said by the oldest