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History in he Making Bodie, Toughest 1 Of Mine Camps, Will Be Park (This is the 27th article of the ninth historical scries. The theme is the High Sierra country where the writer has been visit-' ing several of the historic camps and trails with roots deep in our state's heritage. These articles appear Sundays in The Sun-Tele- gram.) Bv L. Bl KK BKl.DKN I 1 i 1 It 4 -vi -r -fv 1 1 1 "The Bad Man from Bodie" is a legend of the rough "mining camp days of America's West. The famous treasure city in Mono County in all probability outclassed even Tombstone and the Comstock when it came io unsavory characters hanged, shot or banned by their more conservative neighbors, and also for its vast roll of more or less innocent victims of said characters.

Capt. F. J. Young, head of the! Mono County "Mining Bureau and, hill are the big mine shads and former county librarian, who was' the Bodie cemetery, the one with quoted in last week's article about the memorial shaft to President the i-ost Cement Mine is author-; Garfield. "ity for the statement that dur-j Initial discoveries at Bodie the height of the Bodie boom of placer gold.

They were three courts operated continuous- rich placers but the early miners in the historic Bridgeport court-, had to be content with the n.se of house, their grist being largely! dry washers during pari of the trials in crimes of violence. summer and fall. In winter the HAS MANY VISITORS ground was often frozen and so Bodie, what remaias of it, is difficult to work operatioas didn't in process of becoming a state pay. Water was hard to get, not fjhrk something after the order of that miners regretted the lack of restored Columbia over on the, a domestic supply but water to w'est side of the Sierra. Columbia wash gold was another matter, was famous as a gold producer1 "Bodcy Diggings," according to aid fortunately had numerous Mi's.

Cain, was organized as the semi intact historic structures. Bodcy Mining District in the sum-Bodie has similar buildings plus mer of I860. Weekly work of at famous name. It is a safe guess least a day was needed to hold that Bodie will in time become a claims "provided there is suffi-cardinal attraction in the park i cient water to work with an In fact, it already isjtra or rocker." Discoverers were sijch as can be' noted any sum-i entitled to an extra claim with mer day by simply counting the quartz claims limited to 200 feet succession of dust plumes from on the ledge with 50 feet at eith-vtsitors' cars on the Bridgeport-j er side of the workings. Bxdie a well graded but un- PAINTER CHANGES surfaced route.

Turning to W. A. Chalfant's iLike innumerable other Califor-i "Outposts of Civilization," the ip: I 1 .1 nla place names, Bodie is spelled wrong. It should be Bodey jdst as Cabazon should be Cabe- im. Rubidoax should be Robi- draux.

or Borrego should be Bor-; ega. The camp was named forcing up to 1S62. Chalfant blani(s One William Bodey, one of the the change to Bodie upon a sign fmir traveling prospectors who painter, one Bob Howland of Au- I show room for improvement and a look around the stores will show more and more new prod-. ucts aimed at safer living. One major safety innovation is "Hide-a Hose," 150 feet of gar- den hose always ready for in-, tunt use indoors or out.

Stored' 'on a retractable reel in the base-. ment, the hose is available Pr um, indoors by means of a trap door. in floor; outdoor housing is builtin wall cabinet with key lock. Special nozzle os combination fog-, or-stream design, ideal for aU firfs as ell as for ordinary gar-, 'den hose purposes. Product of; Flinchbaugh Murray Pa.

A compact but efficient means lof fire escape for individual; moms in multi-story buildings is. produced by Marryatt, Lane Fort Lee, N.J., A chain, escape ladder is housed in a com-; nact container fastened unonstrus-, ively beneath a window. In an; emergency, two sliding pins are, removed and the container of; litrht weight aluminum is lifted. over window sill to become a plat-; form complete with safety Burgess Battery Freeport, has introduced a battery-op- erated, automatic emergency light to eliminate the hazaid of: sudden darkness caused by a pow-: er failure. Tlie light, by means of a special relay unit which plugs into any standard 110 volt, M) cy-: cle A.C.

electrical outlet, is turned on instantly in the event of power failure, providing strong lighting at basement stairway, fuse box or other location. Battery is en gineered to provide a full year shelf life; more than 15 hours' continuous operation. i A unique window sash lock, product of Two Way Lock Des Moines, Iowa, will lock win- dows securely in either closed or open position. Pressure up or down when window is open causes lock to grip more tightly. Lock, attached by means of two screens, is released simply by finger pressure on projecting lev-'.

ers. A British firm, Vulcascot London, has introduced a new gadget to prevent ladder acci- dents. The "Augur Safety Lad-; der Foot," has non-slip rubber pads that are self-aligning, and which automatically adjusts to any type of floor, even or uneven, It has intermediate universal links which allow the pads to res-t flat on the floor at all working angles. A new "Safe T-Cap" of anto radiator, product of Truckstall Manufacturing Cleveland, is designed to eliminate the very real hazard of burns from scald ing water in modern pressurizing -auto cooling systems. The new cap permits release of pressure by means of a push button which allows steam to escape down runover tube.

A new "Saf-Pla" surfacing mat-1 erial has been developed by U.S. Rubber Reclaiming N.Y., for sports and play areas tu provide surer footing and reduce the hiizard of falls. Prepared crumb rubber is mixed with is-phalt and spread in layers on sports areas such a.s running track approac-lies and tennij courts, where it improves footing, and on children's play areas, where it "gives kids a bounce instead of a bump." in Kolomeiiski, Is designed to burn low-grade oil. Its turbine is shaft-connected to a main generator which produces direct current for the truck- mounted traction motors. An auxiliary 150 horsepower generator is mounted in the rear of the unit for starting the main power plant, and presumably this pow-er package can be connected i a traction motor or two for mbJ ing the locomotive in terminal areas without firing up the tut) bine itself.

Russia's gas-turbine is further designed to multiple with other units. Why is the gas-turbine eleetrio" locomotive being adopted in Rusj' Decause this partio." ular locomotive seems to Ihrivj" on winter weather and sustained" open-throttle operation. It is the answer to brief and wide-open spaces. Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railroad! last of the Oklahoma electric anJ i one of a cluster of juice-powered" freight lines still operating in th cenirai soutnwestern United' States, is now in the market fo a used diesel-electric locomotive' The 14-mile railroad owns one elrcj -trie locomotive and two express motors. OS THE SANTA FE BEAT Car department employes on va cation this week are Hazelle'L.

Dean, Edward Boaird, Cataruio G. Salas, Theodore A. Ornela' Jjoe Rodriguez. Chavclo Trebizo; jonn Mcv.iatcny, Floyd Huff, Vicente R. Comejo, John James C.

Foster-Manuel Martinez, Henry M. On. tiveros, Paul F. Granlee. Paul A jBenseh, Curt A.

Roach, Jack R. Sorrows, Leopoldo r. Burrurl, Leslie F. Morris, Pascual A. Sal! azar, Howard O.

Sears, Billy D. Looper and John Padilla. Sieve Rutgers reports that in Rodriguez and Cleo M. Vaughn are on sick leave. made the initial Bodie discovery id July 1ST9.

Podey unds corn "Bodey, a descendant of early Dutch colonists in New York when that colony was known asi tfew Amsterdam, was from Poutrhkeensie. N.Y.. a substantial; citizen. True to his Dutch heri tage he had come to California in on a sailing ship Matthew Vassar, named for a member of tlie family that established the women's college. winter Bodey and one of hts partners, Black Taylor, ran short of supplies.

They started for Monoville on foot. Hiking back they ere caught in a blizzard. Taylor struggled on, made the cabin and lighted a fire. Taylor hunted all day in the blizzard but, wouldn't find Bodey. The discover- er had frozen to death and snow covered his body.

Taylor couldn't Stand the solitude with his partner dead. He went a few miles south to Benton and prosweted. There first of a books on the Inyo-Mono area written by the noted Owens Valley publisher, it is learned that William Bodey's name was continued with its correct spcll- rora who lettered "Bodie Stables on an Aurora livery stable. How- and's sign was both big and fan- and soon others were using the same spelling, Austin, boasts it still has a part of a famous hotel once moved timber by timber from Virginia City. At Tioga Lodge, on Mono Irfike, there stands a small structure that was once a sa loon at Aurora.

The moving around of buildings In the mining boom was common. Bodie prob- ably topped the list. One mine owner, James Stark, owned an opera house in far off San Jose, He had it dismantled and moved to Bodie here it was rebuilt into one 01 tlie most ornate mills ever to grace a mine camp's hillside, tlie Opera House Mill. STAN OuD MISSES Iceland was California's governor. He became interested in Bodie and in 1863 was named president of the Bluff Consolidated Mining Co export The big boom at Bodie started in 1877 when the Standard was incorporated for a syndicate headed by Dan Cook.

Cook and his associated had bought out two 4 BL 1 fMUnjJ 585,702, as compared with for the first five months of 1959. Hank O'Leary, Santa Fe's special representative in Los Angeles, informs us that the colorful Western city of Flagstaff in northern Arizona began its great ex- travaganza, the All-Indian Pow- Wow yesterday. The celebration extends through July 4. The Pow-Wow fea- lnHi.ma tlwl ot their picturesque best. Highlighting the three-day program are tribal dances, ceremonials, parados and an exciting rodeo which features only Indian participants.

Santa Fe Railway or the week ending Jiuie 25, were ,010, as compared with: 30,516 for the same week in 1959.1 Cars received from roiuter- tioiiH totaled ll.lrtl, as coinpured i with for tlie same Meek a year ago. Total cars moved were 42,100, as' ims year" Santa Fe Railway had pmniof. 'A 1JI -X' -SS 7 J' l.tv It at 'a '1: .4 Air X- IK i Northern Division at Fort Worth, Tex. Bernard has been superintendent of Ixm Angeles Terminal and Harbor District bIik- November J954. He began his Santa Fe career W'iaslow in 1942 and served there and at Burstow in various capacities including that of transportation inspector, general yard-master and trainmaster.

Paul Harrison, Union Pacific's public relations official in Los Angeles, reports that Southern California institutions for health, education and culture this year will share eight grants totaling $58,000 from tlie Union Pacific Railroad Foundation. Recipients of checks from Walter R. Rouse, executive director of the foundation, are orthopaedic and children's hospitals, Independent Colleges of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, Pomona College, the Huntington Library and the South-ern California and Long Beach Symphony associations. Rouse revealed that additional gifts will made to certain cidimiiinily cIickIh during their campaigns later this year. Tlie Union Pacific Ra'ilroad Foundation was organized primarily for the benefit of communities served by the railroad.

Rouse further explains: "Since we 0erate in 1.1 states, there are difficult problems in allocating available funds to a relative few among tlie many worthy institutions. Also, in line with the foundation's broad purposes, we endeavor to support activities in the fields of education, social welfare, health, science and culture." The foundation's total grants in the Southland this year exceeded by nearly one-fourth the amount contributed in 1959. Not much is known as to Russia's progress in research in improving is railroad motive power. However, from a January issue of a Soviet trade journal comes word that Russian engi neers think highly of the gas-tur bine source of xwer. Trains Magazine rcpM-ts the first Soviet gas-turbine electric locomotive apjiears to utilize the carbody of an American standardized 2000 horsepower diesel.

The SoWet omottvp, built "-as 1 ONE TIME ROARING CAMP Here are some views of the Bodie of today, upper left, a school; upper right, a business block; center left, a mine camp; center right, the glass-sided Bodie hearse; lower left, Bodie Cemetery with Garfield Monument at middle left; and lower right, one of the West's first electric dynamos. (Four lower photos by Joe Fox of Ridgecrest) I 1" a was attacked and killed by In-: He visited the camp, didn't like dians but not until he had slain 10, the looks of what he saw and attackers and exhausted his am-'pulled out. Fifteen years later munition. Stanford visited Bxlie for the lOther miners came imd reaped second time and declared he had the treasure Bodey and Taylor let another fortune slip through had discovered. They a his fingers by believing a mining By JEFFERSON D.

YOIIN Because the future of America's railroads has boon taken so lightly by the 86th Congress, considerable inter their town Bodie and the deep canyon rift became Taylor Ouleh. Those miners were not too particular about spelling. Hence Bodey became Bodie. I.OSKS HIS MONTMKNT est is stirring as to the carriers' role in national defense chronicled tlie fact but by no belief of the residents of Bodie means all Bodie residents spent and hundreds of other mining their waking hours shooting at wimps1, each other or getting roaring drlmk jTHEX THE VKilLANTES Two chun-he were built, the; Pet Rwl('y- the celebrated law-Roman Catholic -and the Melh-er, made his first pile in Bodie odist. The Methodist church is the defending folks who shot in haste, one mentioned in an earlier para-! Mon many thought were cold graph.

It is a well pre.se.-ved 1, and building. There were numerous; I fraternal organizations. The Bodey: Wl'le lot ot wlth short and the President Garfield tenevs. When Reddy defended memorial shaft are both in the, a "'h bachelor who had slain a Masonic Cemetery. Tlie Miners peaceful miner, apparently in a Union was in all probability! typical triangle argument, even Bodie's largest organization.

It had Roddy had his troubles. The de-ia "magnificent hall" with seats fondant "escaped" but was caught for several hundred, according to by a citizen posse and escorted an early day scenic booklet. Min-1 back to Bodie where tlie famous ers Union members had large: "601 vigilante" committee was 'ornate ceremonial badges. Front formed then and there. Joseph of the badge was printed in gold De Roche, the wealthy bachelor, ileaf letters.

The reverse side was was hanged at the spot where he black. Members reversed the had slain the hushajid of the badges to wear the black side out woman with whom he was having when marching in funerals. the affair. The vigilantes didn't HAD SOCIAL LIKE tlKre. wllon De Roche's i corpse was prepared for the fu-i There were numerous volunteer with the advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles Favorable reports indeed came to Railroad News last week from Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, concerning the second-generation Minuteman ICBM, which is designed for launching from railroad flatcars.

Air Force Sgt. Dave Light of March Aid Force Base reports that the Air Force's Mobile Min i uteman Missile Test Train com- pleted its first run last Monday, returning to Hill AFB after a sev- en-day trip, hich covered approx- imately 1,150 miles through lUtah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada. Threw railroads liilon cifio, WoNlern racific ami the Denver Si Kio par-llclpitled In the initial test nut. More than 20 of the country's railroads are expected to take part in the test program before the entire series of six deploy- j( niems is compioiea. The successful test run was iniade by a train which carried no missiles, since the first trinl jwas designed primarily to study communications and control pro cedures.

Summing up tlie week long junket's results, Lt. Col, fire companies and also a mil- itia company. Membership in a fire company was probably a No 1 social position as the fire lad dies in their leather helmets and red flannel shirts were loaders successors found his partners who had extracted in 1871. In 1879 when tlie; 000 in profits and who sold their camp was in its richest days Bod-j claim for $67,500 cash. Tlie two eV's ashes were moved to the town partners, Essington and Lock-cemetery and a marble shaft or- berg, had used an arrastra to for the grave.

Before the mill their ore. Cook and his part-stone mason had caned a ncrs changed things abruptly with suitable epitaph, however, Presi-ja 20 stamp mill and a tramway dent James A. Garfield had been, between mill and mine. The as a i a d. Tlie miners( Standard's rich gold and huge promptly forgot about Bodcy and Profits triggered the famous had the shaft engraved in memor-i stampede to Bodie.

iam to the slain president. Thej The long looping road from Garfield shaft yet stands, a com- California to Bodie through Kol-manding one in the old Bodie cem-'som, Placemlle. Like Tahoe, etery while Bodey's unmarked Carson City and Aurora was soon second grave is a few yards away, shortened. West of Bridgeport So The foregoing account conies from nora Pass wound to its summit Mono County's foremost historian, of 9,621 feet ami then descended Mrs. Ella Cody Cain, ho was along canyons to Sonora.

This born in the old camp in the lSSOs.road became a clogged highway and taught school there early in of lumlier wagons, ore wagons, the present century. Mrs. Cain's horsemen and crowded stages. "Pie Story of Bodie" is the acThe Bodie Stage line ran that eepted source Wk on the fam- W'''V with nine way stations for ofjs old town. 'changes of horses.

The mining To tlie I960 visitor Bodie has camp which had had less than tlie appearance of a town that I0 residents mushroomed into a has simply closed up for a long 'city of 10.000. wi-ekend. There is a whole row GAMRI EUS AKKIVK of brick structures along thej With the boom came tlie rough principal business street. The oth-j days, the days that made Bodie ef side is largely bare duo to aja common byword for rowdyism, fire of a few years ago. Electric; The camp just grew too rapidly lilies are strung on poles but; 'or government to catch up and the wires contain no current.

In the lawless fraternity decamped in the numerous parades and cele- blfWr- Mother and richer mm-bratioiis. Jack Cunn, the longtime camp than the average. Cal-Invo mining engineer and owner historic park in the mak-of the Minetta, was captain of one wl" to preserve both Bodie company. Tlie lavishly 81 of for graved silver trumpet he carried wa-v one ilyo as lire chief remains today a proud possession of his daughter, Helen, at her home in Truekce. By 1SS0 Bixlio's Main St.

was 1 mile long. Successive fires have helped whittle it down to a few coiled on his chest as the hearse was driven to the cemetery. Those vigilantes meant business. Such were a few of the high the Bodie that was. a 1'ki Shipbuilding Subsidy May Be Discontinued Force BONN.

Germany (AP) West Germany's military forces now to tal 2ti9.niX) men, the Defense James Lambert, train command-! mParpd .902 for the same er commented- iwcek ln 19, Sanla Fe "The initial trip was highly suc.ltotal 37'461 the Pins; blocks of buildings with only one' WASHINGTON' (AP) The of them at all continuous. Only House Merchant Marine Commit-two or three cross streets has approved a bill to elimin-tain manv structures, but there late 6 per cent ship construe- Icessful in every manner. We en- scattered buildings far ri umi wide that have survived the fires smP uuarrs. and thus bear testimony to the! East Coast, Gulf Coast and Great size of the onetime gold camp. Lakes builders contended the need Mrs.

Cain recalls her father no lonKrr cxists for the 6 Pcr telling that whisky sold at the rate cont differential provided in a 1934 of two drinks for 25 cuts. A sin-law covernment sub- gle drink was a dime, or "short for wpst Coast oper-bit" and the man who ordered anon- countered very few problems i which we had not President Donald J. Russell and I am happy to say that these announced that William problems were strictly minor in Lamprecht, general manager of; nature." 'Southern Pacific Railroad, has The mobile train concept is de-'becn appointed vice president of1 signed to confuse the enemy and system operations. to compound his attacking prob-j tatnprecht thus become the lem by greatly increasing the, rhlef operating officer for live number of targets with which he rail line which operate from must contend. Portland, to New Orleans.

He succeeds James W. Corbett, President Ernest S. Marsh has: who retired week. announced that Santa Fe Rail- th few open establishment light from 100 other camps to get a bulbs hang on cords with a thick slit of the easy money in east-dust layer. Nearby will be a gaso- em California's great bonanza, line lantern.

Bodie mining stock soared into SCHOOL INTACT outer space. For instance, Mrs. A church has an open door. In- Cain reported that the Bodie Min-side the pews are stacked to one ing Co. slock rose from 50 cents side and long piles of salvaged to a share.

Each year inves-lumber fill the interior. The tors reaped far more in divi sfhoolhouse Is intact with shades dends than their entire original a the windows. Sun and snow capit.il outlay. The gaming ta-tyve largely removed the paint' hies ran 2) hours a day, every but the structure is sound and day with no limit stakes. Do strong.

Furnished cabins dot the ens of saloons boasted their doors s4dns of other streets. In summer were never closed and proudly a half diven or so people live said doors without lock's id Bodie but with its mines closed to prove the point, if proof were tljpie is no employment. I'p the needed. Few outside papers only a single drink often had it! served along with an insult. Every bartender despised the "short hit" drinker.

Whisky was not only a beverage. It was a medicine. ll would cure a cold, counteract way's net income for May lDM rheimiHtism, ward off pneumonia jistry reported. This is SI .000 short and, of course, counteract snake nf the planned level of to be bite at least such was thc.attained by the end of 1D61. was rd B.

O. Bernard, terminal sup- Santa Fc's net income for thcirvinlondrnt at I-ns Angeles, to first five months of 13W) was of the carrier's i in rn in nil ii ii ii iii i i i mi 1 i ill iTi mil turn in i.