Show SINGULAR IN california A correspondent says bays davs 1 I am located in a running district where the be mining is mostly done by the bedrock bed abed rock 1 mahy many of them are from three to four thousand feet under wider the mountains and arid they have to be worked the bedrock bed rock from ten to fifteen hundred feet before they get gett brol when they come doand work tile the channel of an all ancient river I 1 have been ill in them three thousand feet under ground in them thein I 1 saw any quantity of floodwood flood wood and arid some large logs loga arid and trees many of them several feet in diameter and a portion of them petrified and become like stone some of the wood remains almost in a perfect state of preservation I 1 found a petrified lizard in one of them some of the wood adhering to him it is a splendid thing it bad become like ret of iron a mii mineral eral resembling gold it is about six inches long and a great curiosity urlo sity 11 N 1 Y courier dec 19 |