Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16
From plaster cast by A. D. Whittier Of Bullfrog.

hotel. the Montgomery at Beatty, Mer-
chants at Bullfrog and the Southern at
Rhyolite, and the tired visitor TO any
OF the camps can find accommodations
unexpected In the desert places,
Bullfrog can be reached by automo-
bile and stage from Goldfied, and by
kimball Bros stage from Las Vegas.
The latter route Is used principally by
Salt Lake and California people and af-
fords u quick entrance into the differ
ent camps.
Where Stewart Practiscs Law,
Ex-senator VIM. NJ. Stewart, the vet
eran champion OF western interests, In
the United States senate for so many
years, up on his retiring from the sem
ate, selected Bullfrog as his home, and
on the edge Of the AmargOsa desert has
built him beautiful home and settled
down 70 the practise OF his profession.
He has become interested I'm many good
properties, and believes that Bullfrog
has IN II the making OF the biggest
camp In the west, There Is no part OF
Nevada with which he Is not familiar.
nor the entire west for that matter, ana
the fact that he has gone into this
desert camp of Bullfrog, away from
railroads. away from the comforts Of
life, to which he has been accustomed,
to build a home, practise HIS profession
and make investments. speaks volumes
for the district and It's future.
Like Godheld and Tonopah the Coun-
try has been staked for miles, the rec
ords at Bullfrog showing that about
$500 locations have been filed for rec
ord since the district was organized
year ago last September The FIRST To-
and were the Original Bullfrog group.
About Bob" Montgomery.
There has always been something
weird and fascinating about the desert.
Men who have spent a few years on
the desert cling to II and no matter
what the hardships are the privations
and sufferings, they stay and live on
searching and hunting for It's golden
treasures. The great Nevada desert
has been tracked from one end to the
other by the res ess prospectors and
their burros, and during the past two
or three years these men have COM
menced TO reap the reward OF their
years OF searching, They deserve all
the good fortune that can come to them
and IL they ride over the desert roads
now IN automobiles no one begrudges
tDtUl tue pleasure lit tOlli4bllr AHAL
wealth brings have been well earned.
The desert breeds It's own peculiar
type OF men. restless. energetic, deter
cry, or T.. A. Montgomery, as
he was chrIstened AZ years ago
In the town OF SeafOrth, Canada.
Fourteen years of life have been spent
in the desert OF southwestern Nevada,
and eastern California, and his years
of search for the hidden wealth OF the
desert hills has been at last magnn-
Gently rewarded I'm his discovery Of the
now famous Montgomery Shoshone
mine "A property but little more than
a year old, yet millions havo been Of
Tered for II and refused.
Raised In Iowa, from the time he was
6 years old, he went to Idaho In 1885 and
engaged IN mining. lie drifted from
there into Nevada. where he got
taste OF desert life and has stayed with
Il for II years, both Ia Inyo county
Cal. where he worked two different
mines and erected small mill, and H.
Nye and Esneralda counties. He was
one OF the organizers Of the Montgom-
cry district, about 60 miles southeast OF
his present operations.