SIXTY MILKS A MINUTE ON A TIN PAN.
Artht;u Fit/Patrick, says the Pittsburg Telegraph, who returned from Colorado a short time ago, gives the following account of an occurrence in the mining districts, of which he was an eye-witness:—"A miner and some companions were crossing the Con- i tinental Divide when it was covered with snow. Three miles below them, down a decline oE forty-five degrees, deeply covered with frozen snow, lay the spot they desired to reach, while to go round by trail was fifteen miles. The miner took a tin pan, used for washing gold, spread his blanket over it, got in himself, in a squatting position ou liis haunches, tucked the blanket around, held his riile and other traps over his head, ancl got one of his comrades to give him a push. He informed me he went down at the rate of sixty miles a minute, and shot far out into the valley at the foot of the mountain. When he stopped he found the soldering of the pan incited from friction, his blanket on iire, and it was his impression that bad he gone much further he would have been burned up, together with all his traps. ''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 7
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