Show Utah Guardsmen Ready Realy Should They Be Asked c l to Entrain for foi Mexico l TM III tho the event O that con conditions In Mexico Mex Mex- ico ice should require armed Intervention It Is n C certainty that the national guard guard of Utah would lie Iio called Into Immediate service Probably no other state In thu union minion has such a splendid ld nucleus 11 about which to build u Ii c regiment a as ha hat has Utah The national guard while In actual numbers tIa pot not fur far exceeding 00 active member members IS Is fit It to take tho the CI field tild l In hi a afew afew afew few liours hours hours' It occupies a unique position in tho opinion of ot tile the wai college u at Washing ton In the nii annual ual m I JJ of ot time the chief division l of or militia affairs for Ol the th national guard o of Utah Is complimented no less lees than four times for Its Us conduct and efficiency while attending the maneuver maneuver maneuver ma ma- camp held In tho the Santa Clara valJe valley r last August Tho The organizations that would be available for lor duty duO are The fhe First field battery artillery stationed stationed sta sta- at Salt Lake This battery batter has hns hasan hasan an nn active strength of ot seventy five men and la is commanded b by Capt William C. C Webb ebb who was sas a lieutenant of or artillery during the Spanish American war and tho the Philippine Insurrection Company H H. H First infantry stationed in Salt Lake has an active list of or forty forty- eight men It Is commanded b by Capt W r H If Gregory Grego I who has ha had considerable considerable consider consider- able military experience Tho The signal corps also stationed In Salt Lake has hns an nn enrollment ot of fort forty forty- r- r two men commanded by Capt E E. Le Ro Roy Bourne with years rears of ot experience to his credit The hospital corps consists of ot fourteen fourteen four tour teen enlisted men commanded commande b by Capt Cant Dr John Jonn Sharp These to together ether with the following named staff officers constitute constitute con con- tho the strength th located in Salt Lake E E. A A. Wedgwood ed wood gen adjutant eral crab H. H M M. H. H Lund assistant adjutant adjutant- general and recruiting of officer leer W. W G G. Williams major c battalion Freeman Bassett first lieutenant lieu tenant and adjutant Clayton Coolidge first lieutenant inspector of ot small arms arnie The other companies arc F F. F Manti Capt Fred commanding two forty-two men D D. D Mount Pleasant Capt Thomas Braby commanding for for- two ty-two men G Ephraim Capt Fred 1 comman commanding ln three forty men 13 n. Ogden war strength th of ot forty forty- six men commanded bv by Capt W. W E. E Kneass a veteran of oC tho the Philippine war var The arms arms arnis and equipment for or the entire en- en tire tiro force are aro In serviceable condition and the reserve stock I Is sufficient to equip the state forces to their maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum war strength th should the occasion require it |