Bill Scott Bill Scott was a dredge master on the Clear Creek dredge. In 1973, Archie Gillespie of the //Yukon News// thought Scott was a very good dredge master as he could 'smell gold.'((Archie Gillespie, “Roving Reporter.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 15 November 1973.)) Dredging started on Thistle and Clear creeks after the Second World War.((George W. Gilbert, "A Brief History of Placer Mining in the Yukon." Northern Affairs Program, 1981.))