Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — FURNITURE PLANT FOR ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

FURNITURE PLANT FOR ALASKA.

Americana Have a Novel Plan to Win Wealth in the Far North. Elwood Madden, E. F. Murden, A. P. Murden and Omar Maris have started from Kokomo for Cape Nome, Alaska, with several car loads of machinery for use in that district. The Murdens will establish the first planing mil) iu that territory and will operate a sawmill with a furniture factory iu connection, and they expect to make a fortune. The price of lumber there is S3OO per 1,000 feet. Maddeu is taking gold mining machinery to work his extensive claims. He returned from the Cape Nome district a few weeks ago with a fortune estimated at several million dollars, which he claims to have picked up with his hands along the seashore and under the moss of the mountain sides. •