Arizona republican., 1922-04-04
Bobby May Not Be Son OF
A Lord, But Mining Men
And Indians Trust Him
In GuadaIajara District of Mexican West
Coast for TsUenty Years He Looks Like a
Londoner, Every NolO and Then Finds a
Good Mine, But Others Always Profit
By HERBERT COREY
ARTICLE NO. rs

GUADALAJARA. Jalisco. Mexico,
April 2-This is the story of Bobby.
No. That isn't true. IT is not the
story of Bobby. No one except Bob
by himself knows what that story is.
1t is Just the story of Bobby as the
mining men hereabouts know 1t.
Even so, most of it is guesswork. 1t
is by no means certain that Bobby
is the so1 of lord. No one is able
to say with surety that his proper
title is the Honorable Bobby. he
may draw his income from estates IN
England and he may not. He may
mot draw any income at all.
Anyhow we first saw Bobby on a
very hot and very dusty and very un-
comfortable train which led by stages
into Guadalaiara. With Bobby was
a man who might be tabled mile
off as an American mining man.
Something above the grade OF fore
man. Honest, Industrious. forceful,
able to take care of himself in any
company. A very hard man to scare.
Not. however, a polished, flnlcky,
piano and bridge sort of man. Easy
to get acquainted with and hard 10
fool. With him sat Bobby.
Mysterious EngIishman
:, "There is an Englishman," we said
Ion beholding him.
Whv? do rot know. But we
knew him as an Englishman. Slen-
der. erect, gray-eyed. gray haired
fiftv his description might fit thou
sand other men. Yet any one who
saw him would know him at once for
an Fnglishman. Later l determined
that he was an English mining en-
sineer out from London. He wore a
Snotless suit of clean Khaki in land
in which spotliness is freakish. his
~tfff- -hrirnmed. high-croWned SteIson
bore no mark of the trail. His white
silk shirt was worn. but absolutely
alrnost offensively-clean. His hands
we've white and we'll cared for. his
bonv arms were also clean half way
40 the elbow. Don't think this is an
iTnnroper curiosity. Clean wrists are
far more common than clean hands
in a. country that loses its crust twice
adav because of a desert dry wind. :.
1On his way back to New York,
said to myself. Probably mas
wagon load of personal props in the
baggage car ahead.
Rohbv isn't that sort at all. he
has been in this Guadalajara mining
district for 20 years. No one knows
more Of him than his outer name.
Hc lives back of the beyond with the
indians. forever searching for gold.
Sometimes he is hunting for buried
treasure. No man can miss hearing
stories of buried treasure here II ne
but pauses in convenient spot and
listens. Sometimes he is hunting Tor
quartz leads He can outwalk any
two. men or four mules or one Indian
in the district. He doesn't swear or
drink. He doesn't tell nasty stories.
He is a gentleman.
Bobhy's. Friends Prosperous
Ever find anything?p asked with
a. mean laugh. I've been sorry for
that laugh ever since. Its implication
was that this man who didn't swear
and didn't drink and kept himself
clean must be some sort of a nut
But they told me that Bobby has
fou-d good mines, not once. but many
times. Not that he ever got a penny
out of them. He ALWAYS hotfooted
into town and put his affairs in the
hands of some one who-well. let us
say. into the hands of some one who