g. a. r. vei 10 nm FOR U E1C1PM First, Steps Toward Obtaining Annual Session for Salt . Lake. At: a meeting of a committee of prominent members of tho Utah department, depart-ment, Grand Army of the Jlcpublie, and the board of governors of the j Commercial club, which will be held 1 this week, tho first definite step toward j obtaining one of tho annual encampments encamp-ments of tho Grand Army in Salt Lake in August, 1909, will take place. Tho next annual encampment will he held at Toledo, O., and tho G. A. R department depart-ment of this State will have a lnrgc delegation there to urge tho claims of Salt Lako for the honor of the convention conven-tion f.h o. .folio win f venr. Kncanipnients havo already been held al San Francisco and Denver, and it is felt by tho Grand Army men here that the benefits to the city from the large number of people who will come, many of them great distances, will be very great in tho event of an encampment, here. It has been estiinnted that about $1,000,000 were spent at Saratoga by those who attended tho encampment thoro last year, t For that occasion the Slate ot .Now York appropriated $HO,000, and the city of Saratoga $23,000. to pay I he expenses ex-penses of the encampment. There are many details of the affair to be ar-inn ar-inn god, and at the coming meeting little more probably will be done beyond be-yond a discussion of what arrangements can be made for holding the encampment encamp-ment here. Members of the committee and of tho board of governors will be notified by the secretary of the Commercial club in the regular way. Tho members of tho committee follow: Alfred Kent, commander, department of Utah; A. G. Sleator, adjutant-general; J. M. Swem, commander, George P. Maxwell post; E. "V Tatlock, commander, James B. Mc-Kcan Mc-Kcan post; George A. Black, George 1. Squires, M. M. Kaighn, Thomas Lough-uey, Lough-uey, JS". B. Corscr.