Show STALWART RT MINING MAN CALLED BY DEATH TIl the estate state of utah the city of salt lake and the western in mining ining financial and business world is bereft of a staunch and patriotic citizen exponent of industrial progress and a true disciple of moral inte integrity arity in the death of ijohn john dern on the ad instant at his home in this city he i was laid to rest in mt alt olivet cemetery on the ath and the f preat great concourse of people from all walks of life who paid their last respects attested the high esteem and loving 5 friendship in which the deceased was held mr air dern was 71 years of age he was born near giessen Ober hessen germany and it was while he was on a visit to his native land a few months ago that he was taken jaken ill As soon as lie he was able to travel lie he returned to america and stopped off at his old horne home town fremont nebraska where lie he looked after business matters and commingled with old time friends soon after arriving in salt lake on thanksgiving day he attended a football game between the university of utah and agricultural college players and while there lie he contracted a severe cold this aggravated his weakened conditi condition on and althou although h it seemed for a time that he would recover his usual health a relapse came and in spite of all that medical skill and attention could do he finall finally succumbed at the time stated surrounded by his immediate fan family lily JOHN DE surviving mr dern are the following children mrs aeo li haslam aslam of fremont nebraska state senator go geo n dern mrs J C dick fred C dern and mrs E D Anning I 1 iia ni all of salt lake how john dern was originally induced to wean hirn him aela from frolli farming business and banking pursuits in in neka I 1 braska and cast his lot with the mining and kindred in m atnes of utah and nevada is a romance that would make an extended story in itself in brief it came about when y and nd some of his close friends and associates in in nebraska decided to undertake the winning of gold values from the factory ry mercurial ore deposits of theold the old camp of mercur this state it was through b the investigation of mr dern and his associates all nebraska farmers that the application of the cyanide process to the treatment of mercur ores was successfully worked out it was in the start there made that mr dern began his active career as a mine owner of prominence and it was from that beginning that he built up his fortune and became one of the most figures in the industrial business and mining life of utah and the west As the years passed mr dern became identified with some of the most important corporate interests of not only salt lake but of the entire state he was president and one of the organizers of the gibson commercial company wholesale grocers vice president of the national copper bank and of the bankers trust company he wash was president of the callaway I 1 hoock boock and francis company and a member of the board of directors of the mason mercantile company of mason nev for years he had been a director of the salt lake hardware company and a director of the highland store company of Bing bingham hain his realty holdings in in salt lake are said to be extensive and of the many interests he originally had in nebraska the most valuable are understood to have been retained by him until his death he was a director of the dixie power company a director of the pleasant grove creamery company a heavy stockholder in the mutual creamery company vice president of the eureka rel a banking company of eureka and was one of the organizer of the american mining congress serving as p president of the organization at one time in politics mr dern was always a democrat having supported that party from the time he became a citizen he had always been a potent element in the affairs of the party in utah although never an office seeker he was a trustee of the utah A agricultural college and a member of the utah state capitol capital commission during the period of construction of the capitol |