Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

general here, that while nothing has yet been discovered to warrant stampede there is every likelihood that in country which has shown such good prospects there is always a chance that a paystreak will be developed.
 Nancy Bell Returns
 The launch Nancy Bell, which left soon after the opening of navigation with a con siderable consignment of freight and several passengers returned on Wednesday last having delivered her cargo at a point about twenty miles below the new town of Cooper, which Byers and Riley say is as close as any power beat can get to the new town There were no returning passengers cn the Nancy Bell, but she had three passengers from Cripple fer the Outside Mrs Perkins who is dangerously ill., was among them. She is going Outside fer treatment. She formerly lived in Iditarod
 Polling boats are working the N3ncy's freight to Cooper There were absolutely no supplies there.
 Mir Bvers, who made the trip to Cooper on foot from where the Nancy Bell un- lnaded reports that it is stated there that considerable body of low grade pay ground has been bI~cked out on Esperanto creek, and that Greer < McNulty, on Boob creek are sIucing. SIuicing is also being done on one claim on Madison creek. There are three pay hClns on Boob creek, accord ing to Mr By~rs New hoIas ell Boob creek have raac ed depth of eighty feet without enc~untrrirS bedrock.
 In the opirion of Commissioner VjnaI the district will develop into a good camp. The river is q horse scow proposition. No bower boa,s can ge. to Cooper, The Nancy $ Il Ncnt tcU m.!,s up the TclstM
 Considerable bu.l.ing Is in progres, at CJoror and an eIact-n YVES being held the Gay Byers was there to determine the ques ton of incorporation. lie aid net wait for l.. rcs...t.
 The launch Standard hal arrived from Fairbanks vl;h twelve ytampeders, and the Nancy r2s ed two other launches from the Yukon.
 Ira Y.u Or. .aI, onl Lev Edwards were ovgy@lnc hy gas while working in q shaft on Boob creek and had a narrow escape from asphyXlation.
 Pete MjiIers Story
 Pete M.n,r, who has been in the new camp for the past two months, returned on Monday last, having come across coun- try to Dikeman. where he caught the launch Comet and finished his Journey by water. lie left Boob creek on May 25 He reports that there are about l50 persons in the new diggngs, and that developments so far have been of discouraging nature. He says that no new pay has been uncovered and that some of the finds which have been heretofore reported as pay proved to be but good prospects. He says that nothing which could be designated as pay has been uncovered since the original strikes Mr. Miller reports that the dump on discovery claim on Mastod0n creek was sliiced, and it was given out that it went but S5 cents to the foot Numbers of persons who had been working on Boob, Mastodon an! ad- jacent creeks had now departed and were engaged in prospecting on Quartz, German and Iron creeks. tributaries of the lnnoko. but so far nothing of value had been dis covered
 Mr. Miller expects to return to the dIs- trict in the fall if developments are encour- aging. as he regards the country as an eX- ce,Ient one to prospect in. He says, how ever. that the discoveries so far made do not warrant belief i'll permanent camp being established.