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Show UoUlN mhi DIo Oio Umhh M William H Ecclcs has Just returned return-ed from Oregon, where he has been attending to the business details necessary nec-essary to the establishment of a sawmill saw-mill which will handle one hundred million feet of whito pine timber located lo-cated on a government timber reserve re-serve In the Sumptcr valley. This timber was awarded to the W H. Eccles companj a fow days ago on a bid filed with tho government last June and Is one of the largest timber contracts consummated In Oregon. Or-egon. Of the transaction and iho company's arrangements to handle tho vast amount of timber the Portland Port-land Oregonlan publishes the following: follow-ing: "Mr Eccles has formed a company and will immediately begin construction construc-tion of one of the most complete bandmllls In eastern Oregon. It will be erected near Austin and will have a dally capacity of 75,000 feet. The company has purchased 35 acres of land in Baker adjoining the tracks of the Surapter Valley railway and the Oregon-Washington Railroad &, Navigation company, on which It will establish a box factory and planing mill, complete throughout In equipment equip-ment for finishing tho finer grades of white pine lumber, of which the company intends to make a snecinlty. "Associated with Mr. Eccles in the new company are J: E. Inglis, at present pres-ent manager of the Oregon Lumber company's plant at Inglis, and several sev-eral other experienced lumbermen, who have been associated with him In business for several years. "Mr. Eccles began his career as a lumberman 20 years ago in the management man-agement of tho Oregon Lumber company's com-pany's mills near Hood River and has built and managed all tho mills established by that company since that time, with exception of tho Baker Ba-ker mill Tho electric mill at Doe was built under his supervision. It is the first and finest mill of its kind orectcd on the Pacific coast and has a daily cqpaclty of 150,000 feet. Mr Eccles is now engaged in building build-ing new mills for the same company at Inglis." Tho article also speaks of the Ogden Og-den man as a heavy stockholder In tho Sumpter Valley railroad 'and as president of the Mount Hood railroad. rail-road. Ho Is also interested in tho Oregon Lumber company, but the new enterprise, based upon the recent government gov-ernment contract Ju umptor valley, will be conducted independent of Mr. Eccles other business connections. |