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Show (KMC 10 BE ORGANIZED IN UTAH SALT LAKE, Jan. 8. Suitable material ma-terial for uniforms is all that now delays de-lays final organizing of the Utah state home guard. Rifles and ammunition, tentage and culinary equipments, as well as other materials necessary to properly accoutre the company of militia mi-litia for domestic service, are In storage stor-age ready for business. Uniforms may be here in the course of the present month. According to Col. H. M. H. Lund, acting state adjutant general, almost all of the delay experienced in organizing organ-izing the state home guard has been due to inability of factories to suply stuff for uniforms. At first the organizers or-ganizers of the home guard wanted to be provided with a cloth of the same textile qualities and color as is in general gen-eral use in the national arnly. This proved impossible, since the government govern-ment demanded that every yard of khaki cloth be turned over to the war department for clothing regular soldiers. sol-diers. t . , 'Good Offer Is Received. In face of this difficulty. Colonel Lund turned his attention to some other sort of material. For weeks he has had requests for samples of goods In the hands of factory operators east and west. He has just received a reply re-ply from a concern announcing it can supply the required amount of a material ma-terial of a clay blue shade and of good quality. It is probable that this material ma-terial will be ordered for the Utah guard, and. if it is, the guard will be formally organized without delay. Colonel Lund has fifty local men enlisted en-listed for the home guard, with others on the waiting list. Still others, in the county, are ready for the enlistment enlist-ment call. The acting adjutant general gen-eral is convinced that by February 1 the guard will be fully organized and in training. Old Rifles Are Obtained. Although material ' for uniforms proved the greatest obstacle in the road to organizing some difficulty was experienced in procuring arms. The government, which was relied upon to provide proper rifles, found Itself too busv equipping men for service abroad and'in mobilization camps to look after the needs of home guards, and could not supply rifles of a new make for home service. Search of almost obsolete arsenals, howover, brought to light Springfield weapons of the 1SS4 pattern, which have been sent to Salt Lake for arming arm-ing the home guard company. Other equipment has been salvaged from camps and billets of military companies com-panies of the past. It forms a sufficient suf-ficient complement of material to fully provide for the home guard when it Is organized. |
