Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-01
makers Of mines and markets
II. J. Orem, Independent mining Jnaneier

The following article is taken from the
Copper Curb and Mining Outlook, pub.
lished in Boston, and it is reproduced
here so that the people in this section
may know something about one of the
concerns that is doing things" in the
Yerington District:
1t is no particularly new story to read
of a young man starting out from the
East and going to the West to make his
fortune. But to reverse conditions and
come from the West to the East and be-
come successful means much. That is
what Albert J. Orem, of the firm of A.
]. Orem & Co., with Offices in Boston,
Salt Lake and Yerington, Nevada. has
to his credit.
Not unlike the usual father of the
house." Mr.. Orem is the father and
firm of A. ]. Orem & Co., which latter
house is an incorporated body. Mr..
Orem's three sons-he has four all
told-and his daughters, two in number,
as we'll as son-in-law, Hollis c. Joy,
compose the firm, and so we'll have the
matters been taken care of by the var
ious members of the household that the
succuss of the enterprises of the family
firm has been marked.
Mayhap bit of Orem history would
clear matters somewhat. Mr.. A. J..
Orem, now in his seth year. having seen
the first light of day in Valparaiso,
Indiana, near Chicago, in 1851, was for
80 years engaged in the mercantile bust
ness IN and around Kansas City, Mo.
For about nine of these years he taught
school, being himself a graduate of the
normal school of Kirksville, Mo.
In 1877 he married Miss Martha A.
I.eabo and of this union there has
sprung six children, as follows: Walter
c., Frank NJ, Archibald. younger
lad now at school, and two daugh-
tiers. Walter c. Orem is now his
fathers general manager, and has his
headquarters at the Nevada Douglas
mines. +. c. Orem, being a law school
graduate and member of the bar,
takes care of the legal end of the enter
prises and the correspondence, while
Archibald% who for two years was a
student at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, has been forced to stop his
studies because of his health, and is now
at the properties of his daddy, taking an
active hand in operations.
With one son taking the managerial
reins, with another arranging the cor
respondence and legal undertakings.
and with third assisting ably in the
upbuilding of the various properties
in which he is partner, it would appear
that the elder Orem has but small re
sponsibility. Yet he is even better as
sisted than this. His son-in-law, Hollis
c. Joy, an adept student of single tax,
assists Mr.. A. J. in his Office and various
other duties, taking almost entire charge
of transfer and registration activities.
But Notwithstanding all this assistance
the business of the firm of A. ]. Orem
& Co. has increased to such wonderful
extent that it is absolutely necessary for
the head of the firm to take an active
hand in the business affairs, and never a
day passes when one cannot see this
member of the firm holding down his
end of the Office furniture as we'll as do
the younger members. Mr.. Orem, DIES
pite his 80 years of life, is yet young,
active, alive to everything going on
around him, and the powerful head OF
his business household.
We have many times watched house
grow. First there is one child, then
another, and maybe several more. Each
one grows. the young ran to that point
where he takes unto being household,
and the daughters likewise. The cares
are assumed and burdens borne The
father. Notwithstanding the continued
climbing of his sons and daughters. is
always the head of house. Hi is the
permanent figure there and nothing
save death will remove him. Mr..
A. ]. Orem has chosen to incorpo-
rate the members OF his family into one
working body, thus figuring to hold
them to goal which he sets for them,
placing their share of responsibility &c
the family name and tree, putting them
upon their own responsibility after hi
he has given them an education, and a.
each reaches that age where they car
enter the game of life," he or she gets
a share of the firms securities, and thus
a working body is continually growing
all with an object in view: all with I
factor for safety to strive for. This il
certainly happy idea, an ideal one, fol
it keeps family ties strongly apparent
makes each and every member of thu
household a being suhiunctiye vet anart