The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-06

a hundred million dollars From the new Eldorado prospecIors worked out in every direction Rich gold ore was found 2l5 miles to the south and
 Goldffeld was given to the mining world with it's rich treasure trove. Then came Hannapah, Silver Bow, Reveille, Manhattan and a score of new camps Oddie remained for five years as manager of the Tonopah Mining and the Belmont Develop ment and operated in Goldfeld and other camps where he had secured interests. He bought the Pine Creek ranch and introduced into Southern Nevada the first herd of white faced Hereford cattle, He has made a close study of agricul ltural and live stock matters.
 In 1910 he was nominated for gov ernor on the Republican ticket and elected, serving four years This was about the stiffest fight he ever had and was waged under difficulties that
 would have discouraged most men from making the race To begin with, he was pitted against an ex- state aat was normally Demo- cratic Financial reverses had prac- tically swept away his fortune Un- skilled in politics and with a poor
 organization, he went out and ap- pealed to the voters and won.
 A BattIer from Youth
 There followed some lean years in Nevada The stock boom which swept the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico had gone it's way The rich treasures of Go1dfield were pretty well worked out after producing over a hundred million dollars. The price of silver was low and Tonopah and other silver camps suffered in consequence. But Oddie kept peg ging away prospecting and develop ing prospects, his heart true to min ing. and he now feels that his op-
 iInism is soon to be rewarded.
 Probably the most striking feature of Oddie's life has been the struggle against odds in the big undertakings He studied law in New York at night for three years, while working as a clerk for $1 a week. battling sleep in the pursuit of knowledge He re ceived his degree and was admitted to the New York Bar. His first ex- perience in big business there br0ugh him into conflict with powerful real estate interests and his victory 1n- spired Stokes to send him to Nevada where he stirred up a. veritable hor- nets nest. Young, vigorous, un- daunted, he tackled mining, equipped waEdness." in a region where dollars were as scarce as hens teeth, and finally, temporarily broken in Tor tune, he entered the political arena Governor Last year he again en- tered the lists Horst for nomination ! then for election as United Stapes l Senator It may safely. be assumed that the mining industry will have staIlnc:h friend in the person of the new junior Senator
 Senator Oddie is Republican, and 1 the son of the late Henry MelgS ano Ellen Gibson (Prout) Oddie- Ais father was a native of New YorB and his mother a native of Washing ton. He is through his mother,
 direct descendant of Benja1nin Tas' ker, the first Governor of Maryland 1 a direct descendant of Major BenJa' | min Stoddert, the first Secretary ol the Navy, and a cousin of the late Lloyd Lowndes, former Governor o1
 Maryland State Council Of Defense during tht late war, chairman of A1ghway: Transport Committee and War In dustries Board of Nevada during th'
 war and was a member of Esse2
 Troop (cavalry) of New Jersey fol
 several years prior7 to going to Ne
 vada-
 trict Attorney for Nye County; iron
 I 9O4 to 1908, State Senator, and wal Governor of Nevada from 1911 tt | 1Q15