Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-10 | Page 5 | Eccles Buys the Lot

r EGCIES BUYS THE LOT Garfield Line Equipment Goes i to Sumpter Valley Road f SHIPPING CARS TODAY I Engines and All Other Equipment Equip-ment Sold by 0 S L ITliere Aro in All 101 Pieces and tho i Lot Will Bo Used on the Oregon Line The Sumptlr Valley railway of ichkh Messrs Kccles and Nlbley nre the leading spirits nan purchased from the Oregon Short Line all the nar rowgauge equipment of the latter company and the same will begin to move to Oregon today Thlss quite a large addition to the equipment of the Sumpter Valley as the Short Line had on hand three Mogul engines 158 freight outfit water and wrecking cara thirty passenger baggage and excursion cars making a total oC 391 pieces The Bumpter Valley people however realizing that they could get the equipment at a reasonable price nnd that It would all be needed when their line wan extended took the entire lot at a figure something lfke 40000 Since tho road was broadgauged and the narrowgauge equipment laid aside the company has been deluged with offers for the cars and engines but the average prospective purchaser was of the opinion that the loL could be secured se-cured for next to nothing and the Short Line refused nil offers until the Sumpter Valley came along with quite a liberal I I offer and took the goods The Moguls will find a long lost brother when they reach Baker City as the Sumpter Valley bought all the Sanpete Valley equipment when that line was made standard In the lot was an engine that formerly ran on the Utah Northern and later on the Garfield line before It was bought by the Sanpete road It was In the same class as the engines which now go to Oregon