Show DAVID ECCLES the hand of at death always falls heavily moie heavily in some cales caes than in others and it seems to us that when it takes jakes a man like david eccles the work of the silent reaper amounts to little short of a calamity inured to hardship from his birth until eary manhood he never faltered iu in ills his purpose to push to the front and tile the trials of life only served to school him in the things necessary for the accomplishment of the great things which he be afterwards did it is a long jump from the penniless and ragged son of an equally poverty stricken father and mother to an empire builder at whose touch everything seemed to turn to gold yet that is exactly what david eccles accomplished I 1 in his life he used to walk to brigham city from ogden with a pack on his back filled with little wooden articles his aged father had carved with his knife and these he went about from door to door selling ile he learned right from tile the beginning the value of a dollar I 1 and he was a ruail man who never spent his money ruthlessly yet at the same time hundreds and thousands undoubtedly gedly have been blessed in a material I 1 way by him and the world at large knew nothing of 0 it the character of 0 the man mail was exemplified in the construction of the western pacific railroad Raili oad part of the being contracted for by the utah construction company of which david eccles was one of the heaviest stockholders the entire job was finished turned over to the company inspected by them and received and the bill for the whole piece of work was paid for with one check of so remarkable was this circumstance that it called forth comment from practically all the great f financiers inanc lers in the land andio david eccles lived paying as he went and lie he frequently admitted that it gave him great satisfaction is to make money the state will miss him ogden will probably miss him most but the entire commonwealth reaching from the southern borders of 0 utah to the northern borders of oregon will have occasion to remember david eccles with gratitude and his master hand will be missed in the operations of the great commercial institutions which he founded young men can get a world of inspiration from the life and example of david eccles |