Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — Long Distance House Moving. [ARTICLE]

Long Distance House Moving.

Scientific American. A curious case of house moving was recently witnessed in Oregon: A man who owned a residence at Seattle, which cost him $5,000 to erect, moved to Olympia, and did not have sufficient funds to build another house. He bought a lot and concluded to remove the building ho owned at Seattle. Every one laughed at him, but he persisted. Rolling the house down to the river, he loaded it upon a scow and it was soon at Olympia, a distance of sixty miles. Then he had it rolled upon his lot and, strange to say, not a timber was strained nor even a piece of furniture broken, although he had not removed the contents before startingl the house upon its unusual journey. Last - year Australia produced gold to the value of $5,090,000 in excess of any other country. Gold leaf 1-250.000 of an inct thick is green.