Show I HE FAVORS CAPE NOME ELWOOD MADDEN WHO IS WELL I KNOWIT IN THIS CITY He Says the Nome Diggings arc tho I Easiest in the World to Work His Experiences in Alaska With a story of three years In the diggings of Alaska 101 wood Madden well known in this city and Ogden came down from the north yesterday and wilh his PKSoclates Is administering administer-ing the final touches to ole of the biggest I big-gest undertakings to be launched on the beach at Nome Leaving his homo at Ogden In 1SD7 Mr Madden who has I for many years been a conspicuous figure In the camps and cities of this StEle and Colorado mrde his way to Dawson City where he operated upon the creeks with good results Jlo dropped his interests in that part of the country upon the receipt of news from Nome however and reaching that region succeeded In staking off no less than ten claims upon each of which he I has disclosed the presence of gold in great abundance HI also prospided the tundra that exists to L depth of forty feet and says he lias satisfied himself that It Is the richest country on earth 114 prefers It to the region about Dawson City though the lat I ter Is 3 very rich camp and believes that the output of Nome the present year will exceed all expectations If it does not make a worlds record At Dawson City the devclopn cut of tho ground has always been slow and expensive ex-pensive vh1l nt Nome it is i the simplest sim-plest and most inexpensive of undertakings under-takings Al Dawson the earth must be thawed out by means of artificial heat for which fortunes are annually ex = I ponded before the frosts can be made to relax their hold the thel upon yellow I metal while at Nome nature affords tie I heal and any man who has the eneigy necessary to manipulate a rofk r his it I in his power to I make a stake It Is Mr Maddeus effort to turn the gravel on a teali more extensive than the rocker affords however and it Is to that end thai ho is now eiulp i lung himself In JSIoiu Before deciding on this he lias subjected the sands of the bench to most exhaustive lIs anil to I Tribune l reporter said yesterday yester-day afternoon that they had shown from 4170 to 15 per cubic yard wimbclm represents about 2MiO pounds of gravel i Indeed1 Mr Madden is most enlhuslas tic over the possibilities at Nome and wilh i I lie machines with i vim ieht he pm poss to exploit his claims will leave as early as possible for that counlry I |