Show MINER AND PIONEER Col James F Woodman Called to Rest DIED IN CHICAGO YESTERDAY Had Been Identified With the Mining Mi-ning Industry of the State Since 1865 and Owned Property Valued at Half a Million Dollars Anticipated Antici-pated the Development of the Wyoming Wyo-ming Oil FIelds ThirtySeven Years AgoLocAtor of the Emma Mine His Brief Married Life Hundreds of Salt Lake people will today to-day mourn the death of Col J F Woodman Wood-man f which occurred at Chicago yesterday yes-terday morning He had attained the ripe old age of 70 ears and as he had been In poor health for several months the news was not entirely unexpected The Immediate cause of his demise was drops A telegram from Col Woodmans nephew Hairy Woodman to friends here brought the first news of the passIng pass-Ing of the splendid old man who has done scTmuch l to raJse Utah to Its prcs 3 D L Q410 0 I ° cerr w 0 4P 7 I W I S Wr Ati 4t > W SfP 0 f I aSSPwfc27 WM t io Jr re + 0 0 I V Col James F Woodman t ent position as ono of the first mining States of tho Union IN SALT LAKE 26 YEARS 5 Cob Woodman resided almost continuously continu-ously in Salt Lake for twentysix years After the death of his wife he continued to occupy his residence on East Second South street until about three years ago when ho took quarters at the Alta club Last fall his health became so poor that he went to Chicago to try the effect of a lower altitude and to visit John Craig one of his Intimate friends In that city Recently his condition became be-came so serious that his nephew Harry Woodman of the llrm of Cunnlngton Co went to Chicago in January and was with him until the end Besides Jhe nephew above mentioned CoL Woodman leaves a brother In Winnipeg Win-nipeg and a number of nephews and nieces both at Winnipeg and In the province of New Brunswick Canada His estate is valued at approximately halt a million dollars and consists almost al-most exclusively of mining property in Utah and Nevada HELPED WIN THE WEST So Intimately has his name been associated as-sociated with tho mining Industry that no history of the material progress of Utah could be properly written without mentioning It and he alco played a minor part in the early development 01 California and Nevada By birth Col Woodman was English His father was n landed proprietor at Marlborough where James was born In his early manhood he sought his fortune for-tune in the Now World and was caught in the tide of goldseekers < thnt set toward to-ward California in the 50s One of the reminiscences of his life In the Golden State that ho delighted to tell was of he I nowfamous actress Lotta Crab tree whom as a child he trottcd on his knee when boarding at the home of her parents i SOUGHT OIL IN WYOMING Later on he was allured by the silver discoveries in Nevada and passed sometime some-time at Carson City where he became well acquainted with his future partner part-ner CapL J M Day Ills first appearance appear-ance in Salt Lake was in the spring of 1SC5 in company with Capt Day These men anticipated by thirtyfive years whatis now regarded as a new discovery discov-ery In Wyoming for they were going to the southwestern part of that State to look for oil The abandonment of that intention was due to their meeting with R B Chisholm father of W W Chlsholm who gave them such an enthusiastic en-thusiastic description of the mineral prospects in the Pahranagat district of Nevada that they determined to continue con-tinue their quest after the precious metalnLOCATOR LOCATOR OF EMMA MINE To the Pahranagat district they went and found it all that ft had been pictured pic-tured but the dilHculty of transportation transporta-tion precluded the profitable operation of the mines and In 1SCS Woodman and Day returned to Salt Lake It was in the sam year that they located the great Emma silver mine at Alta which made them independently wealthy Col Woodman disposed of his third interest inter-est In the properly to Warren Hussey of Salt Lake in 1871 and devoted sometime some-time to travel going fist to California then to the East and finally returning to Cleveland 0 where he was married to Miss Fannie Corwln a descendant Thomos Corwln the brilliant OhloJGov I crnor and Senator i He returned with his bride to thls city but their happy married life was not of long duration Mrs Wgodnmii died In 1879 leaving no children I Tho Centennial mine since consolidated consoli-dated with the Eureka was located l by Mr Woodman In conjunction with W W Chlsholm and others in 1876 but he retained his Interest in the property for only a short time I HEAVY MINE INVESTOR In late years one ot his largest mining ventures was In the Cane Springs group In which ho was the largest stockholder but he owned more or less property in all parts of the State Mining I Mi-ning was his forte and ho made no other investments worthy of mention He cared little for politics and sought I no profit or distinction aside from his chosen Industry He was known personally per-sonally or by reputation to almost every mining man In the West When the news of his death was received by I his more intimate friends they gathered in groups to discuss their loss and to repeat anecdotes illustrating the kindly disposition and worthy achievements of the man whom they delighted to honor |