The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-06
MOST REASONABLY ALTERED SENATOR WAS
 COWBOY AND MINER IN NEVADA WASTES Romantic Career of Fiery Youth of Brooklyn and His Battles Against Harsh Odds Is Told-Senator Oddie
 Now More Silent Than Ever ''Cal" Coolidge.

Washington. Aug. s-A tall. angu- lar. ba1ld1,headed. pink-cheeked. : desk in one corner of the Senate chamber. He is immediately at J tired in garments of a fashionable I cut He seldom utters a syllable in ! rule and silence the exception Pine neg are carefully balanced upon his ] nose. His nails are freshly mani : cured, his collar and tie-to perfec- ton.
 'ewho's the dude senator?" queries ! one of the irreyerent in the galleries 1 Looks as though he had flock of vaIets. and belonged to the Million aires Club.'"
 The dude" chances to be Taslser Lowndes Oddie, the new Republican Senator from Nevada ex-cow puncner 1 and ex-gold miner who underwent all sorts of hardships and privations, sand toi1ed long in Q hard-hsted prac- ticaI way before good fortune slipped kriaI seat
 Born in Brooklyn
 h. Oddie was shunted westward after being born at Brooklyn. N- r., Octo- Eber 24, 1870. and spending his early kboyhood at East Orange N. J. He Eroughed it on a ranch in Nebraska from 16 to '19 and then sought a bus k1ness career in New York City. In s18ss he went to Nevada to identify himself with the extensive Stokes mining interests there, but he worked himself out of a job by exposing ir- Irregularities in connection with them, fand he then hit the trail into an al most inaccessible, sparsely inhabited, tn,ountainous region of the southern Spart of 1hs State.
 ! Cddie finally drifted south into ;Nye County, in the region of old Bel smoDt, the former grandeur Of which had departed, and took up mining fin 1899, the- entire population of the county did not exceed 200 souls. most fof whom were engaged in raising Livestock He took up some claims and sank a shaft, working alone. with ] such tools as he could gather. The shaft was incline, 70 feet deep, equipped with a wtndlass. The en- sbryo miner would climb down the ! Ia dler, fill his bucket, climb out and moist it to the surface
 Nothing much of a material na- ture resulted from these operations. I The streak of ore was small and the work came to an abrupt end when "a raise broke through to the sur face, making the end of the Nbonan- Eihe became acquainted with a man, Jim Butler who was to play an inn sportant part in his life. Butler had i; ;been District Attorney-a job with Oddie succeeded nina rancher m a small way, and a prospector Of the [ old school with that gift that made the oId-timers famous in their day.
 
 , eraI samples from prospect he had found and told him that the forna- stion looked good and that If the samples ran anything at all it would i: be worth explaining. Butler had taken some samples from the find to K1ondyke, a nearby camp, and ! shown them to Wilse Brougher and his partner, Higgs, who had an assay office there. Hggs threw them aside as not being worth an assay. But ;eOddie have the samples assayed. If
 he stuff is any good. I'll put you in ,, the locations quoth Butler Od-
 tie was in the same financial condi- ton as Butler, but he had in Austin a friend, W. C. Gayheart, to whom he sent the samples. In a letter to Gayheart he repeated Buffers offer and proposed to put GayheaTt in on his interest should the assays show values worth while
 Found the Great Mnzpah Mine
 There were eight samples in the !! lot and in due time the certificate came The lowest ran S60 per ton in silver, the highest s600. They were 1 from an outcrop on what later be-