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Show J i. 000,000, as was supposed at th time, but a sum nearer J5.000.000." WOMAN'S WAY COSTS SCHWAB A SNUO SUM That some of the women who have joined the prospectors of the desert wastes of Nevada have an eye to business busi-ness is shown from the following ac- . count given bf the Tonopah Bonanza regarding the purchase of the great - mine at Bullfrog: "A dispatch from New York says that C. M. Schwab has a woman to thank that he paid $5,000,000 Instead of $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 for the Montgomery-Shoshone mine. She was the wife of a poor prospector, but she. was level-headed and determined, deter-mined, and her faith In Bob Montgomery's Montgom-ery's claim cost Schwab exactly $3,000,-000. $3,000,-000. Eight months ago Schwab was In the "region of Bullfrog and saw Bob's mine. He decided it was going to have a future, and he offered Montgomery $1,000,000. The prospector tried to appeal ap-peal reluctant, but he was seriously elated. He took the proposition home to his wife, thinking he would be patted pat-ted on the back by his better half, but Mr. . Montgomery had not hoped . against hope many years for nothing. AH the extravagant dreams of the miners mi-ners of -Golconda v were hers, and, backed - by 240 pounds of avoirdupois and a rugged ' determination she told her husband to ask $5,000,000. Bob did, and two weeks ago Schwab paid, not |