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Show S. I ECCLES DIES li ST. AllGDSTlIi SALT LAKE, Dec. 31. S. W. Eccles, vice president of the American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining company and formerly former-ly general traffic manager of the Ore-Igon Ore-Igon Short Lino with headquarters in Salt Lake, died yesterday at St. Augustine, Fla according to word received re-ceived here yesterday. He was 65 years of age. After resigning as general traffic manager here Mr. Eccles was transferred trans-ferred to the New York offices of the American Smelting & Refining company com-pany as vice president He recently made a trip to Florida, where he died. Mr. Eccles was associated in the early days of Utah with W. H. Bancroft, Ban-croft, D. E. Burley and E. E. Calvin in taking an active and prominent part in developing the country and establishing estab-lishing industries in Utah and Idaho. Previous to 1884 he was division superintendent su-perintendent of the Union Pacific railroad, rail-road, general manager of the Denver & New Orleans railway and general agent of the Denver & Rio Grande at Salt Lake. From 1884 to 1886 ho was general freight and passenger agent of the Denver & Rio Grande Western at Salt Lake. In addition, Mr. Eccles had been associated as-sociated with the various railroads of 1 the country-in the following capacity; Western freight agent for tho Union Pacific at San Francisco, general agent of the Southorn Pacific company at El Paso, Tex., general freight and passon-gor passon-gor agent of the Mexican International railway, general agent of the freight department of the Union Pacific at San Francisco, general freight and passenger passen-ger agent of tho mountain division of the same road at Salt Lake, assistant general freight agent of tho same road, gonoral traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line, traffic manager of the American Smelting & Refining company com-pany at Now York City. At the time of his death he was president of the Copper River & Northwestern railroad, the. Mexican Union and Nevada Northern roads. Mr. Eccles la survived by a widow, two sisters. F. E. Williamson of Salt Lake, and Mrs. Belle Crocker of Washington; Wash-ington; a daughter, Mrs. Preslon Locke of Spokane, Wash., and a mother, mo-ther, Mrs. Susan Eccles of Washing-ton, Washing-ton, J1L, who is 90 years of age. Two nephews, Lester and Earl Williamson, enlisted in the government service in the early spring, Lester being at present pres-ent with the coast artillery at the Prosidio, San Francisco, and Earl being aboard the batttleship Arizona. |
