The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-23
WEALTH COMES TO
OLD PROSPECTOR
BUT NEAT FORTUNE OF 500, 900
THAT SUDDENLY APPEARS is
NOT FROM THE GROUND
Montana Miner, Sought for Two
Years as Heir to Share of His
Wealthy Brothers Estate, Is at
Last Located at HughesviIle, in the
Little Belt Mountains.

Up in the Little Belt mountains in
newly created Judith Basin county,
in the old mining camp of Hughes
vile, which is one of the ghost cities
of Montana and lives only in its mem
cries of old days and buried hopes,
lives a miner and prospector of
middle age whose name is Frank
Lamy. For years Lamy has been
working underground part of the
year and in the summer months has
sought with pick and pan the wealth
that the mountains of Montana con
ceal. Like thousands of other pros
pectors, Lamy has always seen the
pot of gold at the end of the rain
bow. A good-looking prospect
promising surface indications from
float ore or a rich appearing contact
streak-has again and again tempt
ed Lamy to run a tunnel or sink a
shaft to tap the ore body that he has
felt must be ahead or below. And
then the lure of the mountain ridges
and gulches, the vistas of green
pines and gray rocks and blue skies,
which hold a man with a tie whose
strength he does not realize until he
gets away from them, have held
Lamy, for he is a French mountain
eer type-of the race of adventures
who have always We'd with the Brit
ish in tanning the wilderness.
Eight years ago he went to
Hughesyille, and he is still there,
working for the Block P. Mining
company, controlled by the T. c..
Power interests. His life has been
placid enough in the camp. Eight
hours a day underground, drilling
his holes, loading them with giant
powder, setting off the blast and
cleaning out the face of the drift of
the ore that he and his pardner have
then rum out onto the dump-that
has been his routine of work. Then
the evening meal in the cabin, read
ing the papers and a few games of
seven-up over a few pipes of tobacco.
An occasional fishing trip and a hunt
or two in the fall have provided most
of his recreation.
Every few weeks he made a trip
to the nearest town, Monarch, to
buy supplies and get the mail, the
latter consisting mostly of weekly
papers and a couple of fayorite ma
gaines. Once a year or so for va
riety ne has taken a trip to Great
or Helena for a week or two.
Lamy has not led the sort of life
that abounds in the unusual, but last
week his whole scheme of existence
upset by a letter he received. 1t
told him that two years ago his bro
Their, of whom he had not heard for !
years, had died, leaving him $4,000,
and that the trustees of the estate |
had been trying ever since to find
him.
Lamy, a French Canadian, came to
Montana years ago, and since then
has drifted about the state, mining
and prospecting. His relatives lost
sight of him entirely and did not
know whether or not he was living. +
IN 1918 his brother, Laurent Lamy, (
lied at Menominee, Michigan, leav- I
ng a considerable fortune, of which
bequeathed $4,000 to Frank.
other requests were made to others +
the estate was held up in the pro-
)ate courts because the trustees were
Unable either to find Frank Lamy or =
o prove that he was dead. He was
inally traced to Montana, and last
week a Helena newspaper, the Rec 4
carried a story telling of +
he search for the missing man and
he good fortune that awaited him.
story vas read by a Helena man,
!. G. Carter, who has known Lamy
or several years. He had met him
t Monarch a few weeks ago, and he
t once wrote and notified the pros
ector of his good fortune. >
Lamy is well known and popular B
+ TJ1T0Iaon;11A - NTono,aL IL t. r.
So years old, has black hair
nd moustache, streaked with gray. !
lie speaks with a French accent.
What will he do with his suddenly q
cquired wealth? Lamy has not de- a
lded, but he feels that he has a size d
bic nest-egg that will keep the wolf q
the door during his old age. q
lie expects to leave shortly for Michi
to settle up with the trustees of
estate. g