The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-07-28
HOW BROOK YIN BOY ROSE
TO H0NOREO POSITION

coming TO Washington, was one fight
after another. at times an unrelenting
struggle for supremacy with Mother
Earth when he wrested from her the
silver she boarded, and again with
party machines in political fights, or
with boss systems and anarchy. Truly
one is forced to agree with George
! Cohan. that life is a funny PROPOSE
| tion after all The one who wins out
in fight may not always rest on
/ his laurels. Tasker eddie no sooner
| finished one contest than another was
| take on all corners. That is why he
has proven to be such Democratic
irritant.
| His scraps have overlapped and In
tertwisted. and sometimes appeared
even to be unsuccessfully fought, but
he was up again off the mat to take
on another contestant and he isn't
through yet. Just watch the CLINT in
his eye when Neyada's interests are
threatened in Congress by a with.
drawal of road appropriations.
That cool altogether unpleasan.
day in March when President Hard
ing rode smilingly through aisles o.
admirers from the capitol to the
white house for luncheon, Senator
Oddie took his seat on the now sag
ging portion of the Senate chamber
He had fought his way in, every inch
of the way, and had keen adversary
in former Senator Charles B. Hen
derson. Democrat, in normally Dem
ocratic state.
This particular office came to Sena-
tor eddie not only because he fought
to win it. but because he had always
been found helping the other fellow
He'd developed and promoted mines
in which the other fellow shared. He
had helped many a prospector in a
search for riches, and they showed
their gratitude. too, by giving him
their unqualified support when he
entered political skirmishes. 1t is
told that two old prospectors whom
Senator eddie had helped walked
forty and sixty odd miles, respective
ly. to give him their votes when he
was running for governor of Nevada,
footing it YEARLY over the burning
sands. with packs slung over their
bent shoulders
Nevada is largely a mining state
and prospectors have formed a large
percentage of its population. Oddie
had begun with mining as he had with
business. working from the ground
up, first as a laborer and later as a
scientific miner. The miners knew
him from the ground up, too. and had
confidence in him. Their belief in
him surely was rewarded, for the his
tory of his term as governor reveals
! that he left his mark on the state in
many ways. including a reduced di-
voree evil. a reduced gambling evil.
proper equalization of taxes. strikes
settled equitably and various PERM
cious influences of the state put ou'
of counienance.
To understand Senator 0ddie's in
crest in Nevada and Nevada's inter
est in him, II is necessary to go back
| TO the period when, after he had
solved the Stokes business mystery.
he was free to follow that longing for
wild places and adventure. A tame
civilization no longer appealed to
| him, and he wanted to do battle with
the wilderness. taking his toll from
It's wealth of riches. He travelled to
Godforsaken corner of what was
then a forbiddingly silent vastness in
| Nye county. Probably two hundred
souls formed the population of Nye,
whose geographical boundaries con-
| fine a space as large as four of the
eastern states, with some left over
Without proper implements the
young man toiled hopefully. He
would climb down a fifty-foot ladder
| into his mine, load the bucket, climb
up and windlas up the bucket. All
the time. however that he made these
amateurish onslaughts on nature in
seeking ore he was devoting himself
to the study of scientific mining,
gradually learning proper methods
and meeting prospectors of expert
ence to form friendships, invaluable
among them
Jim Butler, of Ton0pah
Jim Butter, of Tonopah fame, wa
the man Oddie met up with whose in
terests and his intertwined from the
start Butler was ranching. although
known as an experienced prospector
possessed of an uncanny knowledge
of correct ore locations. Many wild
stories about how the great Mizpah