Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-03 | Page 3 | Rites Tuesday for Attorney

RITES TUESDAY FOR ATTORNEY Known For Active Part Partin in ill Utah Fuel Company Contests SALT LAKE LAJE Jan 3 Services will be h held ld at 2 o'clock Tuesta Tuesday afternoon In the Evans Early funeral chapel here for Mark Pomeroy Braffet 56 5 years ears o of age who died Sunday in Price ot of o pneumonia pneumonia monia The Rev Elmer I Goshen will be bc in huge charge and interment will willbe willbe willbo be made in Mt It Olivet cemetery Coming e west vest t as a a railroad he lie finally located In ico- ico field field Carbon county about 1892 11 and became the first country clerk there He lIe practiced law In Price until nUl 1900 when he became or et attorney ney for Tor the Utah Fuel company with offices In Salt Lake Jake His big big- 1 test bis-test gel gest cases were those of oC the Scofield I field disaster claims aria aris arising ling lug ing from rom th deaths death o of and the land fraud action brought I by the federal government I the tho Utah Fuel luel company A set set- set settlement favorable t to the company was effected after artel conferences with ney General Wickersham SUni arc nrc the widow t tn 0 son a sister l 1 and a 11 o brother brothel i rhe The actual extent of his holdings Is unknown unknown unknown his lila interests In re real l estate mining oil 01 and coal 1011 sare arc said Bald tun torun to run Into the hun hun- hundreds hun hundreds llan o of thousands lie He had a quarter interest In the Willow Creek coal mine properly known wn as the Utah Fuel mine No II 2 and had large oil all holdings around Vernal Moab and th Colorado Colorada river 11 had one of the finest private law libraries in the state slate