Iditarod pioneer., 1910-08-07
ONE DOLLAR PER MONTH.
EARS TO GROUND /
 ON OTTER GREEK

What with its stretches of fumes, its whirr of machinery and it's bee-like activity the camp in the neighborhood Of Discovery certainly bears the ear marks of prosperity. Large tracts o1 ground have been stripped most every body is ready for sluicing.
 Riley X McMillan have been hoist ing for several days and will cleanup any time. Their ground gives grea, promise and should turn out well.
 Andy Hensley is putting on more men, and will be hoisting in a few days.
 Merritt & Bates have big pump in. stalled and are making up for lost time on their above lay.
 Sanderson X Rowland have sold their interest in the lay on l above bench tc Riley & McNIillan, who will open up that ground. Sanderson has hiked for the old diggings. He is interested on Yankee creek where the rich pay has been located.
 Cap Worth, Billy Wise and Shroyer. on the Otter association, are still hand ling good money and will open up on 8 larger scale during the summer.
 The boys on below have succeeded in turning the creek and are preparing to take out the money from it's bed Erickson X Larson, Charley Goebel and others had big fight on their hands as the rains made inrushes on their dam, but they are now all smiles.
 The firm of Palmer X Mover, who have been in business at Discovery and Otter City, are contemplating selling out and returning to Fairbanks where they will arrange for a trip to the Out side to continue their school studies These young men have been most suc- cessful in their business enterprises and will return to the Iditarod in the coming spring. They carry with them the best wishes of the camp.
 Discovery Otter is looking more like town daily. Large two-story build ings are put up overnight, and the res idents are seemingly satisfied. Sev- eral deals in real estate have been put through in the past week. Small houses are tumbling down to be re- placed with more substantial struc- lures.
 V. L. Bevinglon, the well-known at torney from the upper country who has been established at Discovery all summer, has decided to go Outside this fall and will leave the diggings about the middle of this month Mir. Bev- ington has made many friends during his stay at the diggings who will be de lighted to see him return next spring.
 The loggers up Otter creek are busy judging from the continuous procession of fine timber which follows the line of least resistance. Mir. Slippern, the sawmill man, has selected 5000 fine logs from the drive for his mill at Flat while many others are picking out their house material and winter ire- wood as it butts against their doors
 A. Lide, of the Alaska road commis- sion, accompanied by D. H. Sleen, sur geon for the Alaska Northern railroad arrived al Discovery last Wednesday, having mushed across country from Seward. Both expressed themselves pleased at the showing of the camp, and remarked that the conformation of the country between the diggings and the seacoast is most suitable from a road-making point of view.
 The absence of political talk at Dis covery is indicative of the spirit of the camp, new stampedes, coming clean ups on No. l, winter work interspersed with jolts from the Joknson-J effries fight are the topics of the hour. Let those who have the time for present day doings at Washington solve politi- cal problems.