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Show START ON A EUROPEAN TRIP William Eccles of the Oregon Lumber Lum-ber company and the ML Hood Railroad Rail-road company, and the man who hoi It up the Industry of both concerns at Hood River, Oregon, arrived In Ogdn yesterday morning lo make preparations prepara-tions for a trip to Europe. Mr. Eccles. accompanied by Mrs. Ercles and daughters, Mrs. Pearl Eccles Reagan and. ;iiss Cella Eccles, leaves Thursday Thurs-day rternoon for New York, from whlcn place the party will sail r.n .Tune II, for Southampton, England. I'pon thefr arrival at Southampton Mr. Eccles will take his automobile, which has been sent from Portland, Oregon, to New York and thence to Southampton and begin an automobile automo-bile tour of the British Isles and European Eur-opean countries. The trip Is expected expect-ed to occupy about four months. Mr. Eccles has been Identified for many years with companies of which his brother, David Eccles, is the head. He has been a vice prorideul and manager of the companies and It has been In part through his efTorts that the success of the companion has been made possible. In addition to the managing of the mills of the Oregon Ore-gon Lumber company at Dee, Oregon, he has also been the manager of th Mt. Hood Railroad and has made it one of the must promising little lines In the west. |