Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1900 — FURNITURE PLANT FOR ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

FURNITURE PLANT FOR ALASKA.

Americans Have a Novel Plan to Win Wealth in the Far North. Elwood Madden, E. F. Murden, A. I’. Murden and Omar Maris have gtarted from Kokomo for Cape Nome, Alaska, with several car loads of machinery for asc in that district. The Murdens will establish the first planing mill in that territory and will operate a sawmill with a furniture factory in connection, and they expect to make a fortune. The price of lumber there is S3OO per 1,000 feet. Madden 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 claima to have picked up with his hands along the seashore and under the moss of the mountain sides.