The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-05-23
VOLUME LV111, NO. 40.
HAS MADE GOOD IN OREGON.
Sam Patch, Former Well known
Leon Resident Has Prospered
in Oregon.

Leon people will be interested in
the following clippings taken from
the High Grade News, published at
New Pine Creek, Oregon, regarding
E. r. Hatch, some years ago resi-
dent of Leon, and who married a
popular Leon girl, Miss Esther Jack
son. Mr.. Patch left Leon some years
ago and located in Oregon, and is
now one of the leading businessmen
and wealthy citizens of New Pine
Creek:
"The life story of one of New Pine
Creeks most active business men
reads like a romance. Born during
the stormy days of the rebellion in
1868, in Kentucky, and reared
amidst scenes that seldom excite
ambition, E. r. Patch embarked on
career fraught with more than the
events of an ordinary life. A close
student, a careful observer, keen,
active, resourceful, he mastered the
situation of his environment, broke
away from the old moorings and
carved career for himself that
reads like a tale of fiction.
Mr.. Patch graduated at two uni
versities as result of his own una1d-
ed efforts. Possessing strategic bus
mess qualities of an unusual type
and character he easily succeeded
where others would have failed.
Having a prediction for real es-
tate and general brokerage transac-
tions in addition to his INCLINATION
for the legal profession, in which he
is a graduate, Mr.. Patch made money
rapidly. He has travelled in many
lands and at one time was secretary
for one of the great diamond syndi-
Gates of South Africa. He made and
lost several fortunes in the Beau
mont, Texas, oil fields after adding
luster to the glory of old Cripple
Creek by spectacular and successful
operations there. =,
When the Spanish-American war
was declared he rushed to the front
and distinguished himself in valiant
service for the stars and stripes In
the Philippines, where he lost his
health, but which he regained in the
lake and mollttainous country of
southern Oregon. Ten years ago
Mr.. Patch located at Lakeview, Ore
gon, and engaged in the real estate
business. His keen foresight
brought success and today he is
considered among the best authori-
ties on values in the Middle West or
on. the Pacific Coast. His business
ventures have netted him a .compe-
tent fortune which the possibilities
of High Grade will no doubt multi
ply many times. He is widely konw
over the west as ''Sam Patch, es-
pocially in Cripple Creek ~
''Talk about dare devil driving.
That seventy mile per hour drive
from New Pine Creek to tLakeview
Tuesday in the big .'conquerer Of
the desert" owned and chauffeured
by E. R. Patch was an experience
worth while. Patch has a way of
tunneling bumps and jumping ruts
that makes the other fellows figure.
He promises to raise the record to
80 miles an hour the next trip"
"In addition to- railroad service
Ger the N. c. o. New Pine Greek en-
joys a daily auto service to Lakeview
over the Lakeview and New Pine
Creek auto line conducted by E. R.
Patch. This affords the people of
both places with an excellent means
of cheap and rapid transit between
the two towns. Mr.. Patch has ar
ranged to put SO horsepower car
in service between New Pine Greek
and the mines when the snow dis
annearS0