Voight, Emil F
Centre Star Mining Claim Loc. Oct. 20, 1898 Rec. Nov. 5. Original owner of the property taken over by the BC Copper Co 1913 supposed to be for $100,000 1 1/2 to 2% copper $2 in gold to the ton. Consolidated M & S Co. Purchased Took over property Died in the spring of 1927, buried on Copper Mtn. He brought his family to the country and began to build a mine at what is known as Voight’s Camp atop Wolf Creek Hill For 20 years family home burned January 21, 1927, April 5.
See Photo of Voight’s Camp Here
Ironically, Emil Voigt and his family fared no better. For 30 years the industries immigrants labored to bring their property into production. Time and again they rejected purchase offers from such large corporations as Granby, which wanted the Voigt property to complete its hold on the known ore deposits of Copper Mtn. But neither Voigt nor his family would sell. Then according to the late John Goodfellow, well known histroian the entire family succumbed to a flu epidemic, and Granby Mining Co. acquired the property at its own price
Similkameen Star 11/08/1918 SImilkameen Star 04/05/1927 Ref: Pr. HS. POV Pg. 26 T.W. Paterson, Okanagan Similkameen: British Columbia Ghost Town Series Sunfire Publications Ltd., Langley BC, 1983 pp. 83