Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
mourners, to make room for men who
are chosen by the people.
HOW BULLFROG WAS DISCOV-
Erred.


on this grim strip of mountainous des- |
ert they call the Bullfrog mining dis
trict they are celebrating the fame OF
two men hailed as pathfinders and for
tune builders and as worthy followers
in the footsteps of Mackay, Fair, Flood
and O'Brien; and yet it is possible
that if the same portion of success was
theirs in an enterprise conducted in
an eastern city, under less strenuous
conditions of life, their deeds would
go unchronicled AMI their praises be
unsung.
Bob" Montgomery, desert pros
pector and discoverer of the great
Shoshone mine-recently sold to Chas.
M. Schwab for several million dollars
who has just passed to the credit OF
his wife his new-made fortune and
announced that he would never quit
the life of the prospector, and DR.. j.
Grant Lyman, New York clubman AMI
automobilist, who bought four mining
claims here on Bonanza Mountain,
known as the Rush group, and dis
posed of them in less than six months
for half a million dollars profit, are the
popular heroes. They have won for
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though as different in personality as
day laborer and college bred athlete,
they occupy the popular eye as real
heroes, and the desert argonauts who
are here, bent on fortune making, even
at the price of life itself, have lifted
these men upon a pedestal and are
joining in doing them honor.
Montgomery is of unpretending eX-
terror and mature years. He is gaunt
and raw-boned, like a consumptive
His is of rough and horny visage-
harsh, pinched, worn and sallow. His
countenance shows all the marks
of time, anxiety, care and dis
appointment, inseparable to the life of
the desert prospector. Even in repose
it wears a look of restraint and OF
resolve.
| DR.. Lyman, on the other hand, is
debonair He wears an air of unmis-
taxable distinction. He is built like an
athlete, the whole frame indicating
prodigious vitality and energy. His
presence is strikingly commanding
and his carriage buoyant. His is the
air of the gentleman to the manner
born. His manner is affable, or, more
IdCCuTdlely, 5OCldDle. HIS DOnnOmmle
and camaradie have contributed to
make him one of the popular men of
the camp.
Montgomery prospected the desert
for twenty-five years before he got out
of the grub stake" class. He sufferel
the hardships, the tortures, and the
disappointments of the overlooking
gold seeker. DR.. Lyman was whirled
into the desert from the east in an
automobile at time when the school
trained experts who had examined the
mine prospects here had not yet sat
isfied themselves that a really great
mine could be developed. He bonded
a property for $150,OO0, paying $4,000
cash, which it was agreed should be
used to prove or disprove the conten-
tion of the locators that on the Rush
group of claims on Bonanza mountain
there existed great gold mine, taking
the chances, as he expressed it. "of
making a million with an investment
of 100000" A mine was opened up,
and he won.
The story of Bob" Montgomery
reads like an Arabian Nights tale.
Montgomery drifted into Idaho twenty
years ago. He was a shiftless chan
who didn't care very much whether
school kept or not, and frontier life
agreed with him. He took to pros.
pecting because it agreed with his
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