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Three T.L. Oddie Signed Nevada Mining Stock Certificates

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Three T.L. Oddie Signed Nevada Mining Stock Certificates
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Lot of three different mining stock certificates signed by Tasker Oddie. 1) Trail Canyon Mining Company. Mines at Gold Mountain Mining District, Nevada (printed under logo). No. 129, issued for 1,000 shares in 1907. Signed by Oddie as president. Not cancelled. Brown border and eagle vignette. Folds. 2) Monitor Mining Company. Mines, Montezuma Mining District Nevada (printed behind vignette). No. 44, issued for 2,000 shares in 1909. Oddie signs as president. Not cancelled. Nearly identical design to previous except with red border. Folds, two bent corners. 3) Nevada Boy Goldfield Mining Company. No. 940, issued for 1,000 shares to TW Kendall in 1907 at Tonopah. Signed by Oddie as president. Not cancelled. Red and black print, allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds. A mining entrepreneur, Oddie was a principal player during the Tonopah-Goldfield boom of the early twentieth century. He served a term in the Nevada senate (1905-1909) and was elected governor in 1910 after a campaign during which he portrayed himself as sympathetic to the Progressive movement. In keeping with Progressive ideals, Oddie called for changes in the state's divorce law, but was vague on exactly how he would change it. In 1914, Democrat Emmet Boyle defeated Oddie's gubernatorial reelection bid. Eight years later, Nevadans elected the former governor to the U.S. Senate, where he worked on legislation related to the Boulder Dam project. As a senator, he asked the U.S. Interior Department for an opinion on whether, in view of the recent grant of U.S. citizenship to Native Americans, there was any reason to continue Indian schools such as the one at Stewart, Nevada. Oddie also introduced legislation to name the lake that would be created behind Hoover Dam "Lake Nevada." He objected to federal plans to make Boulder City a federal reservation in which personal behavior was rigidly restricted. Interior Secretary Ray Wilbur argued that the state's permissive laws involving liquor, prostitution, and gambling made the restrictions necessary. Oddie lost the senatorial race against Patrick McCarran in 1932 and again in 1938. Throughout his political career, Oddie was in debt and dunned by collection agencies, making him politically vulnerable. [Nevada Online Encyclopedia] (Bennett Collection) Date: 1907-09 City: Goldfield State: Nevada HWAC# 68056