White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-25

with whom he came in contact. he
worked hard at everything he under
took and made a success OF all his
undertakings.
He joined the famous Essex Cav
airy troop of New Jersey and was
considered one of the best and most
daring riders in the company.
In February. 1898. he came to
Austin in the employ of Arson Phelps
Stokes of New York, one the strong
est business men of that city, and
was made an officer in the several
strong companies controlled by the
Stokes estate In Nevada. Oddie had
occupied this position of trust but a
short time when he learned that
crooked work had been going on by
men in the employ OF Stokes, and
singly, alone and un-aided he I'M
earthed one of the largest and far
reaching swindles that has ever been
known IN this state. His experience
In connection with this work would
make a story far more exciting than
any of the present day fiction writer's
could imagine and he showed by his
actions that he was absolutely fear
less and could not be swerved from
duty by threats of the most serious
character, some of which were made
against his life.
When the Austin mines closed, he
embarked in his first mining venture,
starting work on a quick silver mine
on the top af the Spanish Belt Noun
tains in Nye county, and ever since
then has been actively engaged in
mining. He commenced the techni-
cal study of mining on his arrival in
the state and has ever since been a
close observer as well as al ardent
student of technical mining; this
combined with the vast amount of
practical work he has done, has plac-
ed him in the ranks of the foremost
mining men of the state.
The work that he did on the quick
silver mines demonstrated that he
was full of nerve and capable of en-
during the hardest and cruellest kind
of manual labor. Probably no man
in the state has ever undergone more
difficulties or suffered greater hard
at this mine-miles from a living
soul, scant supply of food, and work
Ing under the most adverse and dis
conditions.
Later he took up a small mine
to the town of Belmont and
it alone; he was practically
the only mar working in that dis
trict at the time. Being without
he secured the appointment
deputy recorder, and by working
in that Office he secured just
about enough bacon and beans to
him through; il on some weeks
business was better than usual, he
managed to secure enough to get a
of condensed milk. He had a
title cabin and did his own cooking
washing but early every morn
ng he was up working at his little
nine, sharpening his own steel.
pounding the drill all day and doing
Ill the work himself. Working this
title mine was n easy job, as he
lad to climb up and down a seventy
I've foot incline every time he hoist
ID out a bucket of rock. He often
as many as fifteen hours a
lay and kept up this record for over
year.
While engaged in this work. his
riend Jim Butler. started on his
prospecting trip In 1900, and
ogether they talked over the section
Il thecountry which has since be-
ions that the world has ever known.
butler returned shortly after to Bel
mont with SAMPLES showing them to
number ana asked some of his
riends to have them ~assayed. These
riends however, ridiculed him and
at the samples he had
in; Oddie, however, who had
'een studying ore and formations
the fact that the rock
ave much promise and so 1t fell to
good fortune, coupled with
lis business sagacity to have them
Unfortunately, eddie had
o money to pay the assayer the
rice which would have been $3.50,
o he took them to a friend and Of
cred him an interest in the property |
I he would make the assay, promis-
ng him that IL the ore did not run
veil, that some day eddie would pay
or the assay made. The ~assaying OF
hese samples cost eddie In the end
|32,50O, this being the amount which
he assayer received for his trouble.
Butler had agreed to give Oddie |
IN interest in the property II he
would have the samples assayed, as
lie knew that Oddie was one of the
men in that part of the country
Who would and could work hard, and
Who could endure hardships and also
that eddie was absolutely
Butler never had any cause
regret mis- action in giving Oddie
In interest in the property, as the
after took hold and from the start
was its manager for the first five
Never had a man worked
as hard or as faithfully for his as
and all the people OF the
camp as did eddie In Tonopah.
He did the first mining In the camp
himself with his other partner Wills
Brougher. but as Oddie was the