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Show 1200 BOYS LEAVE FOR WORK ON BEET FARMS First Contingent of Working Reserve Goes to Northern Part of State. The first contingent of the 1200 boys who have enlisted in the boys' working work-ing reserve, left yesterday morning over the Bamberger lines for work on tho beet farms of the northern part of the state during the summer months. Mr. Watson, who was at the station to see that the boys wore well provided pro-vided for, said there are now at least 200 boys ready for service, with hundreds hun-dreds awaiting the opportunity later to help in the work of thinning out the beets which, in the fall, will go to the sugar factories. Under capablo leaders,, the boys will be established in camps of twenty-five. The boys will be paid at the rate of $S per acre, and it is expected they will thin from one-third to half an acre a day. They will be boarded at the prevailing pre-vailing rate of $1 per day. When they left Salt Lake yesterday morning, the bo3'S were in the best of spirits, and there was no fear of homesickness. home-sickness. Many of them worked in the beet fields last season, and came home not ouly with good- financial reward re-ward for their labors, but tanned ami robust and in the best of physical condition, con-dition, ready for plenty of work in tho school room. |