The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-08-25

Neutrality-suspicious. Property to BE
an Object of Litigation

NOAH IHabNActt NbAAV
Who staked Bob Montgomery in
his mining operations in Nevadaf has
suddenly become an interesting ques-
ltion among the large number of Tono-
pah and Goldield mining men now
gathered at the Palace hotel in this
city, but it will probably be left to a
court of competent jurisdiction in Ne
vada to fully determine the question.
When the outside world began to hear
of the famous Montgomery-Shoshone
mine at Bullfrog, New, now regarded
as one Of the richest properties in the
west, it was generally understood that
r. A. Montgomery, who has been
prominently identified with its
agement, got his first "stake' to prop
erly locate and prospect the mine from
II. 4. Edwards, who owns a large in
terest in it and has helped with a
generous hand many of the early pros
%pectors of Nevada, where he is largely
interested in mining properties.
Montgomery has never openly denied
that Edwards made it possible for him
to successfully operate the Mont
gomery-Sboshone and the story of Ed
wards generous help to Montgomery
would probably have become a tradi-
tion of the western Nevada mining
camps, but for the facts that another
claimant to a share of whatever credit
is due for aiding Montgomery, when
he was an ordinary prospector, have
SUDDENLY come forward and are pre-
pairing to tie up the mine with litiga-
tion. T. E. O'Brien and l.. s. Fin
negan, well known in the T~onopah dis
trict, are preparing an injunction suit
against Montgomery to prevent him
from disposing of the Montgomery
Shoshone mine on the ground that they
are entitled to a three-fourth interest
in the property. They will also sue for
accounting. In their suit the plaintiffs
join with Montgomery as cO-defend-
ants Z. +. Edwards and o. +. Rebel.
The plaintiffs in the proposed suit
claim that in August of last year
O'Brien and Rebel advanced SIS to
Montgomery to prospect in the Bullfrog
d%itrict, with the understanding hat a
partnership between the men in any
thing that Montgomery should dis
cover would last until September o,
when Montgomery and O'Brien, who
had accompanied him on the prospect
ing trip returned to Goldfeld. 1t is
charged that Montgomery located six
claims in the Bullfrog district in the
names of his partners, but when he
took up the ledge known as the Sho.
shone mine he filed upon it in his own
name and that of Edwards. It is fur
ther alleged that the incorporation of
the Montgomery-Shoshone Mining com
pany was part of 2 plan of Montgom-
cry s to prvent his former partners
from getting a share of the property.
In view of the richness of the mine
and the fact that negotiations for its
sale are now in progress, the O'Brien-
Finnegan suit is expected to raise seri-
Gus complications that will keep the
contending parties busy in the ourts
of Nevada for years to come. Yester-
day 1T was common report about the
Palace hotel that two other men, one
now in this city and other q prominent
man of Los Aneles. are also ready to
prove that they staked Montgomery
at the time he started out on the pros
pecting tour that ended in the dis
cnverv of the Shoshone ledge.