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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.'1) Dredging started on Thistle and Clear creeks after the Second World War.2)

1)
Archie Gillespie, “Roving Reporter.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 15 November 1973.
2)
George W. Gilbert, “A Brief History of Placer Mining in the Yukon.” Northern Affairs Program, 1981.
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