Show MANY DEEPLY MOURN SUDDEN DEATH OF W G SHARP LARGE FACTOR HERE lu funeral services icis ts for W V G chirp who died tt this bis home near boston last week were bald in salt silt like sunday evening nearly al all I 1 the mining company of carbon county were in attendance mr air sharp was for many years prominently identified with the mining industry of this county and to his executive ability is dueT touch of the development of the coal industry here ifie he was the son of john and anne G gipson sharp of salt lake his father a bein a bishop in the church aad and general manager of the old utah central railway lail way the 1 be son wa was educated in the deseret um university hersity and later graduated from enss laer polytechnic institute of troy N Y with a chief engineers degree and and then from columbia university with the degree of mining engineer he ile was interested with bis his father in railroad work and construction for some time and then took up mining with the pleasant valley coal company lie ie advanced until he WAS general manager of the uth fuel company the rapid development devel of the latter company being largely due to his executive alti ability lity lie extended the activities and markets of the company until it was well on 00 the way to the big company it is today in 1900 1000 he went east ai as manager of the consolidated cod copany ot of virginia and bec beci iti tj of his showing as an executive and organizer he be waa was chosen rn I 1 i to be preside it and directing head of the united states smelting and refining com company tic ile always retained his interest in utah au i did much to continue the develop merit ment odthe mining industry here one of bis his chief activities was the organization of the united states as 9 merger of the minell at t Hi awalL back hak mohrland lo farland and panther this compendia kiwit Is a subsidiary of the smelting company comp any koj he lie later planned and carried out the building bull dice of the utah railway the coal loute toute from the mines to provo he lie was always prominent in tha social and civic life of salt lake and was a of c the convention which framed the first constitution constin ution of thia this state hia ilis wife wai a daughter of the late judge robert Ilar harkness kness bhe she mccotr anted the remains from front the eastern home to utah besides the brother J R sharp of this city the decedent leaves a alberer is iz salt silt lake 11 G sharp was a man bi bt loved among amonsen men he fie never forsook or forgot a friend and his benefic eions will never be known he lie was generous almost to a fault ahila v his prominent mining associates w w I 1 i remember him for his great achievements others less known will remember him for the good he did among the humbler class arad those wi with t h whom he was only r associated his ills name will never nver n ver be forgotten in carbon county |