Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-07-07 | Page 10 | Utahn Pays 4 Million for 27,000 Acres of Timber

UTA UN PA J 4 MilliON fO O AC S OF David C. C Eccles of Ogden Negotiates for Vast O egon e- e gon Tract Will Cut Logs to Meet War Demand U. capital is being spent in the call of the nation for more David 0 Eccles Utah aire is today concluding for 4 the purchase of acres of the best timber land In western Oregon Ore Ore- gon according 0 press dispatches from Portland Ore where deal being made Mr has been in tor several days and the tim is the of long cherished plans ot the American Lumber company com com- pany of which Mr Eccles is the head The demand for lumber has been strong for the last year and when the price of lumber rose to a price that would warrant the Eccles in runnIng a railroad and tapping rich timber belt of acres they offered an immense sum to the Dubois Lumber company for its holdings and consummated The of the Eccles Lumber companies is that of the erection of in the forests and turning the rough logs into finished products as near the forests as possible rhey also build railroads to the fInished products which the sometimes some some- times into such articles as doors and sashes Shipbuilding as an industry has not been engaged In by the p ople in that part of the country and it thought at the Eccles offIce fn Ogden that the operations in the new district In western Oregon will 00 confined to cutting the logs and turning them into lumber and selling that to the various enterprises Much of the lumber in western Oregon Ore Ore- gon is used in shipbuilding but it Is believed that the Eccles people do not contemplate entering that lIne