Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-12 | Page 5 | Briton is after Chance in Utah

BRITON 15 AFTER Fighting Lieutenant Seeks Information as to Openings Open-ings Here. Having: been in active fighting" on two fronts tn the last four years, a lieutenant lieuten-ant of the Oonnaught rangers in Inquiring Inquir-ing about the possibility of settling in Utah. He is, according to the address on j the return envelope Kent to the Secretary j of State Harden Bcnnion, "O. H. Acton, Usq., Dublin, Ireland." ! Lieutenant Acton in his Setter says that he is fairly vijroroua in fjUe of i wounds and nerve strain, and indicates generally that he is rc-ady to "dig in" and "go over .the top" on a dry farm here, as he has done in and about the trenches "over there" many times. . A copy of Lifu tenant Acton's letter to the secretary of state, received at the capi- . tol yesterday, follows: I "On the advice of your eon A I in L'ub- 1 lin I am writing to you direct for advice ! and information regarding farms and employment thereon in Utah. .X' before the war I had eighteen months' jfd farming experience ad an assistant ! . South Africa, but since October of lLri9H. having been on active service, I have got out of touch with it. South Africa, being a blade man s land, is an eapy-going, out-of-date country. For various reasons I prefer to start again in a white man's land and am keen on the United States, because I huve gained a. strong impression of the general pro-grpssiveness pro-grpssiveness of things and men emanating emanat-ing therefrom. "I have been studying farming in the Ioral departmental model farm and college col-lege of science, but this is mainly theoretical theo-retical and is not dry land farming, on which I am keener. Judging from a hook on this type of farming, Utah is the chief of fhe dry land states, and lo I write to you. "My capital is barely ?5io and my knowledge less, so that I want to .er-t work as an assistant, so as to make the bc-Rt use of what I shall have later 0-4, "Constitutionally I am not athletic, but in spite, of wounds and nerve strain generally I have stuck the war on two fronts (four times up). Nevertheless, I aim to strike in somewhere where I can get work of an average nature to earn a living along with experience. "T am single and L'H years and 3 months of age, five feet seven, and weigh about .ten stone. "T think I have now givn you enough particulars on which to base your suggestions, sug-gestions, and I would be very much obliged If you would give me your candid can-did opinion." Secretary Bennion says he will reply to the inquiry made by TJeuteriaut Acton, Ac-ton, giving all the information he can obtain ob-tain on the subject mentioned in his communication.