Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1886-10-31 | Page 11 | A Pigeon's Long Flight |

Type	issue
Date	1886-10-31
Paper	Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6s1980q
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Article Title	A Pigeon's Long Flight
Type	article
Date	1886-10-31
Paper	Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Page	11
OCR Text	Show A Pigeons Long Flight I WHEELING W Va October 19 Michael Freisnmth started two homing pigeons for Wichita Kan last evening to test their qualities Oae of them arrived yesterda afternoon in fiftyfour hours and lour minutes after their release The distance is 1200 miles The actual flying time is thought to be twentyfour hours the birds making fifty ntne miles miles an hour on the wing The record is one of the best ever made A good deal of money changed hanas on the result The bird is a year and a half old and half English and half Belgium stock One hundred dollars has been refused for her
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s1980q/10683808