The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1910-10-01
Story Of the Career Of Nevadas Next Chief Executive
Republican Candidate
Has Confronted Troubles

tne appointment as deputy recorder,
and by working nights in that office
! h secured just about enough bacon
| and beans to carry him through; ii
| ~ some weeks business was better
| tlan usual, he managed TO secure
| snaush to set a can of condensed
mix. He had little cabin and did
hts owa cooking and washing, but
ais own cooking and washing. but
/ early every morning he was up work
| IN AZ his little mine, sharpening his
JW- steel, pounding the drill al day
iad doing all the work himself
| ,,arking this little nine was no easy
+. as he had TO climb up and
aewna seventy-five foot incline every
l!ae he hoisted out bucket of rock.
| lie often worked as many as fifteen
| tie cften worked as many as fifteen
aanrs a day and kept up this record
. + over year.
| While engaged in this work, his
friend Jim Butter. started on his
famous prospecting trip in 1900, and
they walked over the section
Of the country which has since be-
come one of the most famous regions
taat' he world has ever known. But
Ter returned shortly after to Belmont
| with his samples showing them to
number and asked some of his friends
to have them assayed. These friends
! however, ridiculed him and laughed at
Tue samples he had brought in: Ofdie
however, who had been studying ore
| aad formations recognized the fact
that the rock gave much promise and
so 1t fell to Oddie's good fortune,
coupled with his business sagacity to
have them assayed. Unfortunate
Oddie had no money to pay the assay
er the price which would have been
| So, so he took them to a friend and
| offered him an interest in the prop
| erty if he would make the assays,
| promising him that if the ore did
not run well, that some day Oddie
would pay for the assays made. The
assaying of these samples cost Oddie
In the end $32.50O, this being the
| amo"nt which the assayer received
| for his trouble.
|
ali interest in the property If he
aJui nave the samples assayed, as
he knew that Oddie was one of the
| few men in that part of the country
wac would and could work hard, and
who could endure hardships and also
knew that Oddie was absolutely
square. Butler never had any cause
to regret his action in givingOddie an
interest in the property. as the latter
took hold and from the start was it's
manager for the first five years.
| Never had man worked as hard or
as faithfully for his associates and
all the people of the camp as did
Oddie in Tonopah.
| lie Gid the first mining in the camp
himself with his other partner Wills
Brougher. but as Oddie was the
youngest of the trio, the heaviest
| part of the work fell on him.
The camp of Tonopah grew with as
tonishing rapidity for the first two
years and Oddie managed AL the
affairs. There were 1870 leases on the
property with many partners in some
of them and Oddie kept the business
affairs OF practically all of them. All
OF the leases were oral and every de-
| tail was left to Oddie. several mil
hon dollars worth OF ore was ship
| ped from these leases and Oddie had
| to keep track of the hundreds of
thousands of sacks of ore from the
mine;-on the sixty mile road on the
| ore wagons, on the narrow guage
and broad guage railroads, and at the
smelters. He did all this alone and
at the end settled with everyone OF
the hundreds of men and there were
| only sixteen sacks Of ore short and
absolutely no disputes or contorver.
sizes. This was probably one Of the
hardest tasks that was ever under
taken by any one man and the sue
cessful accomplishment OF it proved
Oddie to be man of phenomenal ex-
cutive ability and tact. Only those
who were In Tonopah in the cary
days can realize what he went
through.