The San Francisco call., 1905-08-19
CLAIM A SHARE
OF RICH MINE
Montgomery -Shoshone Prop
erty in Bullfrog to Be
an Object of Litigation
OLD PARTNERS AT WAR
O'Brien and Finnegan Say
They Stalled the Owner
OH His Prospecting Tour

Who staked Bob" Montgomery in
suddenly become an interesting ques-
ton among the large number of Tono-
pah and Goldfield 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-Sh
mine at Bullfrog, New, now regarded
as one of the richest properties III the
West, it was generally understood that
E. a. Montgomery, who has been
prominently Identified with it's man
agement, got his first stake" 70 prop
erly locate and prospect the mine from
T. E. Edwards, who owns large in
terest in it and has helped with
generous hand many of the early pros
pectors in 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- -Shoshone 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 fact that another
claimant to 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-
ton. P. E. OBrien and L. S. Fin
negan, well known in the Tonopah 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-fourths interest
in the property. They will also sue for
accounting. In their suit the plaintiffs
join with Montgomery as co-defend-
ants T. E. Edwards and o. f. Rebel.
The plaintiffs in the proposed suit
claim that In August of last year
OBrien and Rebel advanced SIS to
Montgomery to prospect in the Bullfrog
district, with the understanding that
partnership between the men in any
thing that Montgomery should dis
cover would last until September 9,
when Montgomery and O'Brien, who
had accompanied him on the prospect
ing trip, returned to Goldfield. 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 is the Sho-
shone mine he filed upon it in his own
name and that of Edwards. 1t is fur
ther alleged that the incorporation of
the Montgomery -Shoshone Mining Com
pany was part of a plan of Montgom-
ery's to prevent his former partners
from getting a share OF the property.
In view of the richness of the mine
and the fact that negotiations for it's
sale are now in progress, the OBrien-
Finnegan suit is expected to raise seri-
Gus complications that will keep the
contending parties busy in the courts
Of Nevada for years to come. Yester-
day it was common report about the
Palace Hotel that two other men, one
now in this city and other prominent
man of Los Angeles, 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
covery of the Shoshone ledge