More gold was discovered, and a massive stampede headed for Flat in 1910. The steamboat Tanana arrived June 1, 1910, and the city of Iditarod was founded as a head of navigation for all the surrounding gold fields, including Flat, Discovery, Otter, Dikeman, and Willow Creek. Iditarod quickly became a bustling boomtown, with hotels, cafés, brothels, three newspapers (only one would last the year), a Miners and Merchants Bank, a mercantile store, electricity, telephones, automobiles, and a light railway to Flat.
More gold was discovered and a massive stampede headed for Flat in 1910 The steamboat Tanana arrived June 1 1910 and the city of Iditarod was founded as a head of navigation for all the surrounding gold fields including Flat Discovery Otter Dikeman and Willow Creek Iditarod quickly became a bustling boomtown with hotels cafés brothels three newspapers (only one would last the year) a Miners and Merchants Bank a mercantile store electricity telephones automobiles and a light railway to Flat