Iditarod pioneer., 1916-09-23
VERY LITTLE EXCITEMENT Is MANIFESTED lN SAILING
 OF LAST OUTSIDE BOAT

The dcnarture of "the last boat fer the Outside" usually is an event of absorbing interest in this section of Alaska, as ln many others where navigation Is suspenIcd fer the greater portion Of the year lmS year. however, there a2pe2rs to be little or none of the surpreseed excitement incident to tke departure of the last connecting yes sel with the steamships for the Outside. The reason is that there are comparatively few persons preparing to make the journey this season. and those mostly nnpeIed by business reasons to leave before the freeze up. The usual exodus of those who wish to spend the winter among the gaItes and lsasures of the Outside world, returning i'll the spring after what they consider to have been vacation, is not in evidence this year. Ci course there are some who will make their annual pilgrimage, but they are rot nearly as numerous as Tn former years.
 The cause fer the light travel to the Out side is found in the fact that many proms- ing camps are occupying the attention ot ;he people, and the desire to be cn hand vi an something happens IS responsible for the fact that many persons who other wise wculI spend the winter ill ease and lea3ure are preparing to take advantage Of the first snow to mush to adjoining creeks and put in a strenuous winter in develop ment work.
 The Tcl<tci is uprermost in the minds of many persons, who believe that the coming winter is bound to see developments in that reoion which will put it on the map and add another producing district to the list of Interior Alaska golf camps The work done in that section last winter and in the early part of the present seaSCn glVes assurance that the coming winter will see at least half dozen paying claims developed, with the possibility of many more, and as there Viii be an immense amount of prospecting work carried on, the optimistic residents here abouts are confident that there will be con siderable activity there. Recently there have been heavy shipments of supplies to tl at district together with a considerable amount of machinery for development pur- poses.
 Shcr.lv after the close of the mining sea son in the Iditarod district there will be a movement toward the rev camp of men who have been putting in the summer earn inc grubstake with which to carry on work on claims in the TolStol, and the trails between this city and the new lnnoko camp will be we'll trave,ed from the start Furthermore, there will not be the heavy handicap of absence of supplies in the ne" camp, as there was last year.
 Another thing which will tend to discour- age men from leaving this part of Alaska is the situation at Marshal! City, where considerable activity has been displayed dur ing the past summer. In that camp some l four or five rich claims have been opened up, giving employment during the season to two CT three hundred men. While so far the pay has not been located on other creeks than Willow, there are many who are confident that adjoining creeks will also 1 turn out to be producers The new camp, ! like the Iditarod region, consists of shallow workings, which can only be operated Tn the summer and fall When work ceases on Willow creek this year undoubtedly there will be many of the men who have been employed there during the past season who will desire to do some prospecting of ad- iacent creeks Much material in the form of boilers, scrapers, drills, etc, has been shipped to Marshall from lditarod this sea son. and much of 1t will be used during the coming winter in the effort to locate new pay. There are many who are convinced that the rich deposits are not confined to the one creek.
 A considerable number of the migratory portion of the population also have an eye on the new camp of Nenana, where the activity in connection with the construc- tion of the government railway promises to be the nucleus of populous center Ii is expected that considerable work will be carried on during the winter.
 But with all the restlessness for which this season of the year is noted, and with all the talk of prospective camps ldltaroo is and will continue to be the center ol attraction for miners for many years tc come. Few of those who are planning or prospecting trips to adjoining camps oul who cast "an anchor to windward anc Iditarod will be their base of supplies. 1T the spring they will return as usual anc the season of 1917 will open with the pros pect of production equal to if not exceed ing that of 1916.