The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
DINNER FOR DAVID Eco1Es.
Ogden Financier Banqueted in Weber
Club by Commercial Association.

Club by Commercial Association.
n GDEN. Oct. 14.-One of the most
| elaborate and enjoyable banquets
ever given in the city was held
tonight in the rooms of the Weber club,
when number of the friends and
business associates of David Eccles
banqueted him. The banquet took
place in the ladies' dining room. The
tables were beautifully decorated with
cut flowers and at one end of the room
was large portrait of Mr.. Eccles,
While at the other was a magnificent
French clock standing ten feet high,
with mahogany case and a cathedral
chime, about the finest timepiece that
ever came to this city.
In the course of the evening this was
presented to Mr.. Eccles by Fred j.
Kiesel as a testimonial from number
of the friends and co-workers of the
guest of the evening. Mr.. Eccles made
an appreciative and happy response in
accepting the gift. Each of the gentle
men present has been closely identi-
fed with Mr.. Eccles in some of his va
rious enterprises, that have been in
strumental in building up the city of
Ogden, and each responded to some
toast. The menu cards contained cuts
of the Eccles building where the ban
quet was held, the Ogden sugar fac
tory, the Utah state flower, the sego
lily, and other characteristic illustra-
tons. AT the banquet table were seated
in addition to Mr.. and Mrs. Eccles the
following gentlemen and their ladies':
Thomas D. Dee, Fred ]. Kiesel, Joseph
Scowcroft, w. H. Watts. H. H. Rolapp,
H. H. Spencer, James Pingree, Joseph
Clark, james Mack.
TOSeDb fsaOpbcuan roraSont from
Salt Lake and responded to the toast
THE Absent Brethren" These in
cluded a number who had contributed
to the purchase of the testimonial, but
who could not be present The names
of those making the gift were engraved
on a silver plate and handed over to-
gether with the clock. Besides the
gentlemen already named there were
Joseph F. Smith, Adam Patterson, G..
W. Nibley, Mat Browning, L. S. Hills
and E. P. Ellison.
After the formal banquet and pres
entation the company adjourned to the
club parlors and spent an hour with
music and dancing.
Mr.. Eccles was born in Glasgow
Scotland, & little over half a century
ago and with his parents came to Utah
when a mere boy. The family settled
at Huntsville in Ogden valley in the
early Sixties ana David ECcleS ABOUT
this time made trip to Oregon, where
he remained two years. He soon set
tied in Ogden and for over a third OF
a century that city has been his home
although his interests extend all over
the west. He was mayor of the city in
the early sos and had a most success
full administration.
He has stood loyalty by his city and
state through good times and bad
times, and whenever possible the en-
terprises which he fostered have chosen
the junction City as their principal
place of business, even when the opera
lions of the company were in other To-
calities. case in point is the Ec-
cles Lumber company, one of the great
est dividend paying concerns in the
west. Its forests are almost all in Ore
gon. where its lumber is sawed, but the
company headquarters are. in Ogden.
Among the enterprises in which Mr..
Eccles is a moving spirit are:
The Ogden Sugar company, the Utah
Sugar company, the .Eccles Lumber
company, the Ogden Rapid Transit
company, the Ogden Waterworks COM
pany, the Utah Construction company,
the Utah Canning company the First
National Bank of Ogden, the Ogden
Savinks Bank. the Ogden & North
western Railway company, the Ogden
Hot Springs & Sanitary Resort COM
pany, the Sumpter Valley Railroad
company, the Logan Sugar company.