Show wa V ag yg to vau 71 HI iseih S 41 tl these 1 1 1 J f at 7 f kb I 1 auA igL 1 siu Q 0 U 7 i castle gate Depend dependents eats need ned financial Finane ial assistance subscriptions should be sent to any county chairman or to any bank in t the he state it is imperative to act now fund needed statewide state wide machinery has been set in motion for raising a tuni funi of for relief of the str stricken icken de dependents 3 ef ct miners who lost their lives in the recent castlegate Cast legate mine disaster A ways and reans means re ans committee has been organized under the chairmanship of E L 0 howard of salt lake city president of walker brothers bankers and with D C green general manager of the utah power light ca com 1 pany as vice chairman and john C cutler president of the deseret national bank treasurer and J H rayburn general secretary of the salt lake city chamber of commerce secretary county chairmen have been named as follows J F tolton beaver J G wheatley boxelder Box elder H E hatch cache carl R marcusen carbon M L larson daggett robert miller davis robert potter duchesne henry thompson emery H C tebbs ebbs T garfield carfield H W balsley Bals lcy grand wilford day iron J W bond juab east walter fitch sr juab west vest Wil williia liani kane W A robertson millard J A anderson morgan charles merrill piute diute charles W walton rich A B hara ham mond san juan H F dicke salt lake L R anderson sanpete San pete R D young sevier M C taylor summit peter clegg toole goosle thomas W odonnell uintah J will knight utah J W clyde wasatch ed H snow washington guy evans wayne and A P bigelow weber mr howard general chairman has issued the following appeal to the tha people of utah the purpose of this fund will be to take care of cases requiring i ring special attention under the campens compensation ion act the utah fuel anel compy company w will 11 pay 16 per week for weeks to each mans dependents irrespective of the number of dependents in each family fa raily this compensation pensa tion act is sufficient coverage I 1 fay LS protection in an ordinary catastrophe but not where the entire community is affected such as in the castlegate Cast legate disaster the law does not take rare care of specific instances where there are several members of a family and investigation shows that at least so 50 per cent of the bereaved families have more than five dependents and in many cases there are as many as eleven dependents these children face the future without ite resources for their protection and sustenance As governor blab 7 has declared in his proclamation it is apparent that there is a crying need tor for help among these women and children living victims of the terrible disaster an appeal to the people of utah for relief is absolutely necessary to alleviate the suffering is the only human thing to do we respectfully urge that the citizens support this movement and send subscriptions immediately to the chairmen of th various county organizations or to any bank in the th sta J the w ways a am and means com committee cittee is charged with tile the response res b of ra raising s i the funds and a trust committee which has been app anted by the governor will direct the disbursement at tl this lis time ime ie e we weare e re not making any special appeal to other states but subscriptions s b aril atio t from such states will be accepted As the people of utah are e ahl 11 aware this disastrous explosion resulted in the untimely dea death a of 1 miners leaving widows and minor children fath fatherless ess in addition to a wire to each bunty anty chairman notifying him os of his appointment a letter was sent ut under the signature of gov gornor r mabey and mr howard un under r date of march as follows following a careful hinves tion of the situation at the castle gate catastrophe I 1 issued a pr proclamation r a copy of which is attached hereto this sur survey vey was m afie e by a committee composed of mr imer pett chaira chairman an mr afe E hansen mr darrel T lane mrs C H stevenson and mr JCarl arl marcusen the report was in detail and I 1 am having run oft off yr r you copies of the report so that you can be fully advised pd and i n r let the people in your county know the exact status of t tot sit situation ti As you alre already idy ow the resolution of the committees investigation gati on P points tj h eed of a fund to take care of the dependents who will require bequir attention a antion in addition to the compensation allow under the law a ely to a mans dependents payable 1600 per week N apers throughout the state and country at large have carried t details of this sad accident and it appears to be the general conc s of opinion that steps should be taken to raise the fund of 0 we respectfully urge that you use every means possible to ryse se the quota for your county the red cross chapter church boci soci societies ies fraternal and commercial organizations should be called upon by you to supply the necessary machinery to raise the fund without delay please appoint vice chairmen to take charge of the various cities towns and sections of your county you have many good men and women available for this work posters that will serve to call the attention of your people to this campaign are being mailed to you under separate cover will you please see that they are distributed and prominently displayed the boy scouts organizations we believe can be depended aponto upon to make the distribution As you have been previously advised mr john C cutler president of the deseret national bank is treasurer all banks are authorized to receive subscriptions to the fund it is needless we feel sure to urge that necessity dema demands ads prompt response in this emergency and we hope that the good people ot your county will respond generously frank B cook president of the columbia trust company ot of salt lake lak city and president of the utah state bankers association sent the following letter to all members of the bankers as association several weeks ago the people of the state were stun nod with the realization of what the castlegate Cast legate mine catastrophe cat meant not only to the coal industry but particularly to the dependents of those men who so valiantly gave lives eves in performance of their duty governor vernor charles R mabey has within the I 1 past ast few days day issued a proclamation calling upon the people 0 of f U utah tali to subscribe to a trust fund of for the dependents of the men inen who were lost this it is not an amount to ask of the people of the state the utah fuel company which owns and operates no 2 mine at castler te the scene of this catastrophe is meeting its obligations obligation without hesitancy but as you will realize the amount of compensation provided under the law is not ca rate in all cases to take care of the dependent families of the men w who ho were killed the amount of is paid on a basis of 16 p per er week A state committee has been organized by governor mabey abey A campaign to raise the fund is i now under way the governor ano and the committee request all the banks bank of the tate state to receive subscript t tion 10 ns for this fund in so 0 o doing will you deepan account 0 ca f the the names addresses and amounts amount of all who subscribe to this fura funa temporary treasurer is john C cutler of the deseret national bank bin of this thi city will you please advise mr cutler the amount on baud ba tor for this fund as ai of april members member of f the ways and mean committee are B E 0 hoard ow D C green edward B R jenkins A G mackenzie john C howard W mrs mr prank frank P stewart J H rayburn bishop joseph S ol 01 ivins ivin ross beason beasen J D stack S G dye G L becker J T farret F C P cardon mrs mr jeanette A hyde mrs mr W mont ferry I 1 L rains moroni heiner herbert auerbach and walter fitch sr bf the trust trot committee which will disburse disbar the fund will carmst or of f the three members of the tato state industrial commission a dative of the utah fuel company a kiember of the board of county commissioners commissioner of carbon county a representative of the carbon county chapter of the american red cross and three re to be chosen bythe governor from the state at large |