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Show TRAINING CAMP IS I GAINING IN FAVOR Many Ogden Citizens, It Is Said, Tfc-Ki .. Heartily in Favor of . the Plan. Ogden can be expected to furnishO least fifty citizens for tbe ' military training camp at Fort Douglas next summer, sum-mer, according o J. B. Ward of Oflen, who has written to Captain Wesley lyufi for information about the project.. In addition to attending the camp, Mr. Ward paid in his letter that he knew of a number of Ogden citizens -who desired to attend as many of tho lectures here as possible. Additional recruits are .being signed up daily, according to Captain King, who is chairman of the Commercial club committee in charge of the camp plans. More than 100 additional names have been added to the list of those who hare pledged themselves to nttend the leeturs courses, making the total now well above the 300-mark. The matter of adding an engineering corps to tho camp is a question to bo discussed at the next meeting of tho Utah Society of Engineers on February 18, according to Captain William B. Wallace. Several local civil engineers are strongly in favor of recruiting au engineering corps, if army engineers can be sent here to give, instruction in this branch of military work. |