Scott, S.F., Captain
Captain S.F. Scott was a sea captain before coming to the Princeton area.
In 1899, he (and Captain William Harvey Copp) were operating for the Anglo–American Gold and Platinum Hydraulic Mining Company, Ltd. which had claims on the south fork of the Similkameen (spent $80,000) about nine miles above Princeton, in the vicinity of Nine Mile Creek. Work started there early in March 1895 under the general supervision of Scott and W. Willis, a mining engineer. He was later connected with the Golden Creeks Mine Co.
His home at Nine Mile Creek bore the name of Scotts Town.
He was a tall, powerful man who was killed by a shunting freight train, while crossing the tracks in Astoria, Oregon, in March 1905.
See A. McDiarmid’s tape 1913; see Stevenson, Hogg Granite Creek mine Hardwick Notes, page 13
Similkameen Star, November 16, 1901, page 2; March 25, 1905, page 1