Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-11-05
7. |. ODDTE FOR
STATE SENATOR
Some Reasons for Support
ing this Popular Man.
Ills Record in this Camp With All
Glasses Of Men Demands
His Election.

The campaign is drawing to a close
and the last opportunity has arrived
to say the pleasant things OF our
friends and the hard unkind things
of our political opponents Republi-
cans assert, and Democrats must ad-
nit, that the reelection Of Theodore
Roosevelt as president Of the United
States OF America is as certain as it
Is that the sun will rise tomorrow
morning, There is no argument
about this; it is a fact; aud having
settled it, let us consider the local
politics OF Nye county and in scan
ming the Republican ticket we see
the name Of /. l.. Oddie for state
senator. 1t is name that makes us
pause and think, for we know the
man, and who of us living in this
camp does not? The way To think of
this maa is to consider him as plain
L. J.. Oddie long before it occurred
to him or to you that he would ever
be candidate for any office. Look
back to the days when, without a
cent to his name, he came TO this
place formerly a desert now Tono-
pah) and helped Jim Butler put down
the first shaft on the Mizpah vein.
did the cooking, hauled the water
and chased the horses over the hills
even as you and I''-then over the
desert waste he teamed that first lot
OF ore to Austin which was to add
new life TO his hopes or dash them
back for years The returns re-
ceived, did he and Jim Butler try to
keep this great discovery all to them.
selves? No; they gave every man
chance. Many there were who came
here not only broke, but absolutely
ignorant Of mining. One aud all were
not only encouraged, but were helped
with money, with. credit and with
cheering words aud the milk OF hu-
man kindness; to perseyere and they
would wlp, against her will. that
tickle goddess Fortune. And many
there are today who will admit that
but for Oddie they would have turned
their backs on Tonopah, disheartened
and discouraged and ruined in pocket;
and today If not wealthy, they are
here better off and with brighter
prospects than when they arrived /
Nor is this all. This man Oddie. bv /
bitter experience, knew what the /
prospector's life was-the drearv
trudge day by day over the never
ending hills; across the sandy. arid /
plainsj the miserable, unsatisfactory /
meals; the hard, uncomfortable bed /
and the ceaseless pain of hope de-
terred that maketh the heart sick. "
His heart went out to these men, and
we would like TO know how many
prospectors there are in Nevada
that he has "grubs bstaked - Not
only that, but if they found nothing
he grubstaked" them again, and il
they found prospect he was the
best partner a man could have.
How much money could this man
have piled up If be had not
'grubstaked" you, or gone into my
company, or lent hundreds OF US
money, or come to our aid in
one way or another How many hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars has this
man piled up and boarded away.
None. He is interested in Ray, Lone
Mountain, Silver Peak, Weepah,
kIondike, Coaldale, Hannapah, Bull.
frog, Goldfield, Tokop, Ida and last
but not least Tonopah. He has So
QUO worth of assessments to do this
year on his own individual properties.
There is no man living who is so
deeply interested in Nye county as
I. l.. Oddie. Nor is this all, be at
tends to the company's business, the
bank, his ranch, his leases, bis claims
and all his private troubles, and yet
he can find time to talk to friend
whether he be miner or million
are. Let us look this thing quare in
the face. Did you ever know Oddie
refuse to help man if that man was {
worthy of it and it was within his !
power or the balance at his bank? /
Would you like to have at your bank /
today the money he has lent without {
a scratch Of the pen from the bor
rower2 And all of these things were !
lone long, long before he dreamed of {
oelng state senator. His great sym. /