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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 197, 19 August 1881, Page 4

The farmipg prcßpects throughout the Canterbury district are very favorable. A largely increased area is ia grain this year, and the early wheat ia now k showing well above the ground. Arthur Eitzpatrick, who returned from Colorado a short time ago, givei 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 Continental Divide when it was covered with snow. Three miles below them, down a decline of forty-five degrees, deeply covert d 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 on his haunches, tucked the blanket around, held his rifle and other traps over his head, and got one of his companions to give him a push. He informed me that he went down at the speed 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 melted from friction, his blanket on fire, and it was his impression that, had he gone much further, he would have been bnrnt up together with all his traps.— Pittshurg Tehgraph.