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Show D . , M . Cooper Cooper/Pioneer Cooper Pioneer / , Pion Pioneer er , Dies DiesAt DiesAt DiesAt At Los Angeles AngelesMoab Moab people were grIeved grIevedihlS grieve grievethis gnevithis , . ) , ihlS this week to learn that Dav Davi David DaviMarrow DavMarrow ld 1vrarrow ' Marrow Cooper 85 plOneer prone plOneerlIvestock pronelivestock pionehvestock lIvestock and busmessman businessman "businessmanMoab businessmanMoab " c cMoab Moab had passed away at hi hihome hhome home m.Los mLos in.Los inLos in . Los Angeles Calif a 3 " _ 3 30 Saturday afternoon A tel telegram telegram tecgram egram conveying conveymg the sad news new newswas newwas nevwas was received "by by " H G Gree Greeri Greeripresident Green GreenpresIdent : president of the First Nation Natrona National National"Bank NatronaBank ; , " , " "Bank Bank " of Moab "Mr Mr Nr " Cooper had hadbeen hat hatbeen hs"been hsbeen been " in m failing fallmg health for fornumber fornumber a anumber - number of yeais yeals years and for some sometime som somtime sontime time past had "been been " almost com corn completely cornpletely conpletely , pletely blindFuneral blindFuneral blind blindfuneral . funeral services and burla1 buria burla1100k "burii"took buriitook " buria'took - 100k 'took took ' " place at Los Angeles Mr MrCooper MrCooper MCooper Cooper s home for more than 20 20years 21 21years 2years 2yearsMr " years yearsMr Mr Cooper is survived by his hisWIdow hr hwidow : WIdow Mrs Nancy Short Coo Cooper Cooper Co Co"per < - "per per -per " and three children Thifamily The Thi Thefamily Tfcfamily . . family resided for many years yearsat year yearat yeaiat at Moab MoabFew Few men took a more active activep.rt activEport activpt-rt activpt rt -p.rt p.rt port - . - in m the development of ofcoutheastern o c : ; southeastern coutheastern Utah in m the early earlydays earl earldays ] days than D M Cooper Born Borr Bornand Borrand Borand > and raised at Davenport Iowa Iowa"he Iowahe low ; [ " "he he " came west when a youn young young youngman youngman \ man and worked in m the boom boon boommmmg boonmining booimining mmmg mining camps of Colorado HE HEspent He Hespent Hspent spent several years at Tellunde Telluride Tellundewhere Telluridewhere Tellundiwhere where he operated a pack tram trair tramof trairof traiof " of mules moving movmg ore numng mrnrng numngmachmerv mrnrngmachinery mininmachinery machmerv machinery and sawmill sawl1ll11 equii eqUIp eqUIpment equipment _ ment on the lacks backs of burros and andMules anc ancmules anmules c Mules to supply the busy mint mine mmes mmesand : and -and - camps Mr Cooper was suc successful successful su sucessful < . cessful in m this enterprise and andaccumulated anc ancaccumulated anaccumulated " -accumulated accumulated - a substantial sum surr sumof surrof surof rl of mone monei money } by his resourcefulnessand resourcefulness resourcefulnessmd resourcefulnesand md and , abilityWhIle abilityWhile ability abilityWhile While still a young man he hecame hecame hcame came into mto San Juan county to tc toengage tcengage tengage engage in m the cattle busmess business busmessOne businessOne businesOne ' ' One of his first ventures was to tc tcacquire tacquire acqUIre the Dark Canyon OUtfit outfitin outfin " m in the Elk mountains mountams which heoperated he heoperated hoperated operated for a number of year years yearsHe yearsHe ; ! He later formed a Dartnerslllp nartnership DartnerslllpwIth nartnershipwith oartnershiwith wIth the late V P Martin Martm who whoas whoas whwas \\as as ' \ \ as also engaged in m the cattle cattlebusmess cattlebusiness cattibusiness busmess business on Indian Creek Moab Moabbeing Moabeing bemg being their trelr h headquarters h'adquarlers hadquarlers " ' adouarters they theydecIded theydecided the : / decided to enter ipto IfltO into the mercantrle mer mercantIle meicantile cantIle cantrle business busmess here and pur purchased purchased purchased chased the Wilson Brothers Brothersstore Brothersstore Brotherstore store in m 1898 which they oper operated operated operated ated for nearly half a century centuryas centur : as Cooper Martin Martm & CoMessrs CoMessrs Co CoMessrs Messrs Cooper and Marti Martin Martinmerged : 1 merged their cattle and land landholdmgs landholdings lanholdings holdmgs holdings with those of D L LGoudelock IGoudelock ' Goudelock H G Green J M MTItus MTitus IKTitus TItus William Keller and oth 0th 0thers others ers and formed probably the thelargest thelargest thlargest 2 largest cattle outfit in m the state stateknown stateknown stateknown ' known as the Indian Creek Cat Cattie Cattie tie company They sold the In Indian Indian dlan dian Creek outfit about the year yea1918 1918 to the Scorup SomervIlle SomervIlleCattle SomervilleCattle SomervillCattle Cattle company the presentowner present presentowner presenowner presenownerAfter owner ownerAfter After retiring retInng actively from fromrange fromrange frorrange " ' range work Mr Cooper for fortime a abme atime bme time was associated with Mr MrMartm MrMartin MiMartin . Martm Martin in m the management of ofthe ofthe othe - the Cooper Martin Martm store Later Laterhe Laterhe Latehe he and associates purchased theWilliams the theWIlhams thWilliams WIlhams Williams Drug store from Dr DrJ DrJ DiJ J W Williams which Mr Coo Cooper Cooper Cocper per managed for about 10 yearas as the Williams Drug companyMr companyMr company companyMr Mr Coopervas Cooper \ Was \vas vas prominentidentified ! Identified with almost every enterprIse en terprIse toward the de velopment of southeastern southeasternUtah southeasternUtah , Utah He was financially fmanclally mter inter interested interested ested in m a number of pioneerbusiness plOneer pioneer plOneerbusmess pioneerbusiness busmess business institutions mstItutIons amongthem among amongthem amongthem them being bemg the Grand Valley ValleyTimes ValleyTimes ValleyTimes Times the La Sal Mountain Mountam Tel Telephone Telephone Telephone ephone aompanv IIOmpany company First NationalBank NatIonal NatIonalBank , Bank of Moab Moab Investmentcompany Investment Investmentcompanv Investmentcompany companv company Moab Land companyMoab company companyMoab companyMoab Moab Transportation compan companyand ) } and othersAfter othersAfter others othersAfter After moving movmg to Los Angelesabout Angeles Angelesabout Angelesabout about 20 years ago Mr Coopermade Cooper Coopermade Coopermade made numerous trips tnps back to toMoab toMoab toMoab Moab to lool 1001 after bus business mess m in mterests interests intcrests terests and renew old friendships friend friendshps friendslips shps slips He continued contmued these regular regu regular regular lar visits to Moab until about aboutseven aboutseven aboutseven seven or eight years ears ago smce since smceWhICh sincewhich sincewhich I WhICh time ill III health had kept kepthIm kepthim kepthim hIm confined confmed to his home mostof most mostof mostof of the time timeWhen tImeWhen timeWhen When the history of south southeastern southeastern southeastern eastern Utah is written wntten the thendme thename thename ndme name of D M Cooper will beemblazoned be beemblazoned emblazoned prominently prommenUy on its itspages it'pages itpages It ' " pages He was a thoioughlv thoroughly pro progresslve progressive progrcssive gresslve gressive businessman busmescman ; and was wasalways wasalways wasalways always active in m advancingcommunity advancmg advancing advancmgcommumty advancingcommunity commumty community improvement Hwas He Hewas Hewas ( was the soul of honor and alwais al alwa always wa ways ) s a real gentleman in m ev evcry evcry cvcry cry respect Generous to a fault faulthe faulthe faulthe he was constantly renderingicts rendermg rendering renderingicts 1cts icts ' of kindness kmdness and charity chanty tthose tothose ( , those in distress He numberedhis numberechis hIS friends fnends lite hte late ally by th ththoisands < thoisands tho Jsands and news of hi ; death brings brmgs real sorrow tthem ( them "u u " _ u _ _ _ _ 'L.LL L.LL LLL ' . _ _ _ _ ' _ _ _ _ .LOe.LlmeS LOe.LlmeS LOeLlmeS . . _ .LOaepelluelH LOaepelluelH . n : Frets grets that it does not have more moredetaIled moredetailed moredetailed detaIled facts and clnd dates regarding regard regardmg regarding mg ing Mr Coopers Cooper s life but theyare they theyare are not available at Moab We Wehope Wehope hope to have more complete m in mformatIon information information formatIon for publication nextweek next nextweek nextweek week _ _ weekJoseph Joseph II IIammond Hammond was m in mfrom infrom nfrom from Salt valley the last of thiweek the theweek theweek week for a few days visit 'lriSIt lriSIt 4isit ' ittown in intown Intown town _ _ |
