Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-09-23

up to the present time it has been
marked with struggles which would
have discouraged the ordinary man.
Oddie was born in Brooklyn in
1870 and moved from there to
East Orang county, New Jersey,
where the earliest years of his life
were spent. When he was fifteen,
he moved to Nebraska and worked
on a ranch until he was nineteen.
1t was this early training which
gave him the robust constitution
that has stood him in such good
stead ever since. While on the
ranch Oddie became a good horse
wrangler and was looked upon by
the other buccaroos as one of the
expert riders.
He returned to New York and
entered the service of a large
wholesale house, receiving for his
services the princely salary of SO
per week. From the start he made
good and by merit alone worked
himself up and later was given the
very responsible position of assist
ant manager of a large estate il
New York. This change meant the
placing in his hands of millions Of
dollars worth of property. truly a
very responsible position for SO
young a man. He held this posi-
ton for five years, in the meantime
taking up the study of law, COM
plotting a three-year course in the
night law school of the New York
university. He graduated, was CIV
en- his degree and shortly after was
admitted to the New York bar.
Immediately after his admittance
to the bar he was appointed man
ager of a large real estate company
in New York city and made an ex-
cellent record for himself, outgener-
aling some of the oldest and
shrewdest real estate men in New
York In the management of the
business which included one of the
largest Office buildings there; by
strict attention to business, coupled
with absolutely fair dealings and
ability, he won the confidence and
esteem of all those with whom he
came in contact. He worked hard
at everything he undertook and
made success of all his under
takings.
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 OF
the strongest business men of that
city, and was made an officer in
several 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 unaided he
unearthed one of the largest and
far-reaching swindles that has ever
been known in this state. His ex.
periences in connection with this
work would make story far more
excitig than any of the present-day
fiction writer's could imagine and
he showed by his actions that he
was absolutely fearless and could
not be swerved from his duty by
threats of the most serious charc.
ter, some of which we're made
against his life.
When the Austin mines closed
he embarked in his first mining
venture, starting work on a quick.
silver mine on top of the Spanish
Belt mountains in Nye county, and
ever since then he has been act
lively engaged in mining. He com.
menced the technical study of min.
ing on his arrival in tne state and
has ever since been close OBJ
server as we'll as an ardent student
of technical mining; this combined
with the vast amount of practica
work he has done, has placed him
in the ranks of the foremost min
ing men of the state.
The work that he did on the
quicksilver mine demonstrated that
he was full of nerve and capable OF
enduring the hardest and cruelest
kind of manual labor. Probably nc
man in the state has ever under
gone more difficulties or suffered
greater hardships than did Oddit
while working at this mine-mile.
from a living soul, scant supply o.
food. and working under the mos
adverse and discouraging condi