| Show I LUND REPORTS ON PRACTICE CAMP GAMP I i Joint Maneuvers With Regulars I Must be of Great Benefit I IV V WORTH ORTH ALL IT WILL COST Plans for Tor In Oilier Other Direction That Guard Maybe May ln be In III Line Colonel IJ 17 M. M II H. Lund o of the First rc regiment National Guard of or Utah has completed the compilation of hl his report to Governor Cutler Cutlet pertaining to the tho matters rs relating tt to the Ito proposition 1 to send the National Guard of I Utah Ulah Into camp with regulars and und volunteers at nt Joint maneuvers this l I fall Call The Tho date selected Is li Aug Aug- uh I l' l 12 and the tho duration suggested su Is eight I days In order older to tc send send the lime National Guard Unto Into such EliCh a camp of In Instruction tion t It will require the expenditure of about aboul 0 0 and tho the nun nun- r of men meat which It la is expected would participate participate par par- In the encampment l I is commissioned o and enlisted strength x a i iTo To carry out this plan would require re- re re require quire tho the expenditure of the in hand for encampment nt purposes which was appropriated b by the la last 1 legislature and about which will be available from Crom national notional appropriations ap ap- J Ii- Ii should therefore require tho the expenditure of money that Is needed for equipments but would furnish instructions b by far fat n more valuable than thon the required ns s articles the National Guard now beIng being be be- I be-I ing In equipped for fOI field service at nt any anytime anytime time of the tho year The plan to turn In the equipment of the First battery battery buttery bat bat- tery would more than make up forthe for COI forthe the amount drawn for th the camp ex ex- ex cs According to the thc estimate of or Col Lund Lunel the expenses would he be divided as follows Transportation subsistence oso So Pay G 2 0 0 of or horses I Forage and miscellaneous ous quartermasters quartermasters' quartermasters quartermasters' stores stores' an and supplies sup sup- plies 3 G 0 Total The pay of the enlisted men of or orthe the National Guard GUar Is higher r than that paid by the federal government anti and is paid to the various grades as follows s and battalion non commissioned 2 aday a aday aday day sergeants 2 a da day corporals a day a privates 1 50 a day The pa pay of or officers is the same wale as that provided for Cor om elS of or like grades In the regular army um In case casc the hc federal appropriation will not cover the pa pay accounts at this scale the tho difference will bo be made up bythe by bythe bythe the usa uso of the state slate appropriation Jh n Worth orth I Expense lh The t r l. l shown hown in the proposition to go Into a n camp of Instruction of this magnitude demonstrates to the authorities that the benefits that will bo obtained by the militia will willbe he be well worth the expense expense- This Is the first time lime that the state has had the opportunity to go 10 into mimic warfare and anal the lessons that would be 30 learned learnell would be of such value alue that for or man many years the they could be put into practice in hn future state camps and thus dispense with s such uch heavy Y expenditures Tho interest that has hns been heen created in matters military Is well shown inthe Inthe in the tho fact that next Monday Monda at the Armory Armor a meeting will be held to arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range for the mustering In of or a new Infantry co company pall In this ell city and during the tho week cok It Is expected that thal a similar meeting will be held at nt Provo The hen heads s of the tho militia In ht this ell city have ha had word ord recently from ex- ex Mayor Roylance of Provo that everything everything every every- thing was favorable to the organization tion of the new company in the Garden Garden Gar Gar- den clen cit city that suitable quarters can he be secured and that good men to form loran the company compan are arc anxious to enter the service The now company for COI this city Is being organized by IJ Cot Col Lund Nephi Hicks A. A A A. S. S Thomson A A. A 11 H. Lund and Charles Forslund all of or whom have had either cither r re regular ular arm army volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer or militia service Another proposition is also being considered which If carried through will mean a scat great reat savl saving to the tho state and the general betterment of the service ser ser- vice For sonic homo time past the maln- maln of u n Hold held d battery haLter in this tills state slate has been heen found impracticable for the reason that thal to properly maintain it and anal to provide pro it with a sufficient number of or mounted drills has been an expense e that Is too great to u warrant arrant It in view of or tho the limited field Held of action action ac ac- tion of artillery It has been heen found that a light battery of galling gatling guns gunso o of lato late pattern could bo ho maintained at ata ata ata a minimum of or expense and would prove piove of or greater benefit in case cage of cm- cm The machine machino gun is as yet ct an undeveloped unde weapon In the United States Stales and to properly 1 instruct the militia C- C 00 I in the tho use of the thc arm will vial prove piove roe of greater value to tho the state than to keep up a a. Hold field hatter at the enormous ox- ox penso pense entailed It Il is now planned to turn In th the artillery equipment valued at nearly nn and with tho the mone money credited for tho the equipments better equip tho the Infantry signal corps and hospital corps There Is hi also somo some thought being given to the matter of dispensing with the cavalry troops troops' having In view the tho saving In money to lo the state In tho the event of oC the abandonment of oC this arm the equipments will probably be reI retained re- re 1 I In case caso of emergencies when th the tho Infantry could be mounted should I the the tho occa occasion lon require These Thesy changes it is understood meet with whit favor t I among the thc of till nil arms and certainly Clr would be he a u. great stride e In tho the I better management of the thc financial of the tho national guard I uncut 1 Within a 1 t short hort tune Um several elal changes I in tho the medical department will bo be announced announced an an- from flom headquarters headquarter It I is understood understood un un- that Dr DI J Franklin Richards s swill will bo be appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of or captain relieving Dr Herbert Deane who w will be bo promoted to assistant clant surgeon general with the rank of or lieutenant colonel These of- of fleets plan to place the medical department depal de- de pal on a firm basis and to enlist nine medical students In the corps tor rc regular duty By Py doing th this the corps CoP T oud ud be tilled titled with crt we trat fa ed d. d mon men c capable of us S th U various dl duties to l a s dEI de dependable dE- dE I J u 1 manner |
