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Show but who today is the most important financial factor In the state of Utah, with Interests extending: from southern Utah to the Canadian border. , Mr. Eccles' rise from a poor hoy to a man of wealth Is one of the most remarkable re-markable achievements In tho history I of a country filled with remarkable J men, and as he adds years to his experience, ex-perience, ho seems to possess a greater great-er capacity for branching out and accomplishing ac-complishing greater things for the country's development and Industrial welfare. ' A MAN OF GREAT ENERGY. ENERGY. David Eccles Is a busy man these days. He Is always on the go. but of late he has added a few extra duties to his multiplicity of tasks. He 1 planning an extension of his Sumptet Valley road. The people in the John Day valley are praying for communication communi-cation by rail with the outside and their prayers will be answered if accompanied ac-companied by good works. It is a most difficult piece of railroad construction, con-struction, to get oer the mountains to where the farmers are living in a valley val-ley secluded from the rest of the world, and there la a prospect pros-pect that those Isolated tillers' of the soli vill offer some inducement which will tempt Mr. Eccles to say the word which will cause the hills to resound I with the echo of the locomotive whistle. While plans are being laid for this work In Oregon, Mr. Eccles' surveyors and construction gangs are pushing the rails along the edges of the cliffs in Ogden canyon and planning to eventually connect Huntsvllle with this city by trolley line. Then there Is the grading of tho Plain City road, now well underway. Before the end of summer the country people to the north of Ogden will come to the city over the Eccles rails. It will not be long before an electric elec-tric line Is built north from tho Hot Springs to Brigham City, and later the , road may be extended into Cache valley. val-ley. All this activity is Inspired by a man who 40 years ago had no great dreams of a career of power and influence, |