Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-16 | Page 4 | Mormon Battalion Fund Report Filed

Mormon Battalion Fund Report Filed SALT LAKK. Jan. 1 Biennial report re-port of the Mormon Italtalion monument monu-ment commission. In which recommendations recom-mendations for the raising of the remainder re-mainder of the $100,000 by subscription subscrip-tion Ho make the state appropriation of $100,000 available, was submitted t., the house and the legislature yesterday. yes-terday. In the senate the report was introduced intro-duced In the. form of a rommunlca- tW.r. fpr,m M i-n M -. Rnlln V llnvlg asking that an hour be BBt aside Tuesday Tues-day for Its consideration when she night appear and explain the report i In full. The naming of the hour was made ti special order of business for j Monday. Due to the absence from the houso of Mrs. Davis who visited the I'lah Agricultural college yesterday with other representatives, the report was Introduced In the house by William W Seegnilllcr of Kane county It was j received and filed- Consideration, I however, went over until next Monday Mon-day afternoon at 3 o'clock, when it will come up in the order of special I business. The commission's report points out that the intensive campaign conducted lu several states for $100,000 will be added to an ed.ua amount approprl- aterl by the state to ef-o.'t the monument monu-ment bus yielded with SCcrUCd interest inter-est S total of $72, 357. 32 Of this amount $16,208,02 Wad raised In Salt 1 Lake. $37. 00. 63 In I'tab 0Utfdfl S'nlt I Lake; 112.034.29 in Idaho; $lfil2.7r, ir Arizona; $1 ICQ S3 In Wyoming; $961,110 in California, $S 12.10 In Cuii- I ada; $T.iiS In Washington. D. C; $296 mi in Oregon. $193.35 in Nevada; s4 in New York and Koston, and j In Colorado. Accrued Interoit and miscellaneous contributions amounted io $2,311.07. making a total of $72,357 :2 The largest single con-i tributions, the report shows. wer made by I). C .Tackling of California, the Auerbach Co., and the Inland Crystal Salt Co. of I tab. Considering the conditions under WhlOh the drive Was conducted, the I commission reports the results scour, d are gratifying, but recommends that mother dri he not undertaken i' ibis time to raise the additional $2v-OOO $2v-OOO pecessary io mal:- up the $liju.iini ! by subscription, which Is riedessory to obtain an ciual amount from the State A plan Is proposed In the report whereby h portion of the $7 2.ih0 Is made available to have the sculptors go ahead with a model of the monument monu-ment whic h might be used in launching launch-ing a drive for the needed amount and thi reby making available all money s for construction of the monupient to tho fatuous battalion, The report Is submitted by B. H. Roberts, president of the commission; W. W. Armstrong, vice president; Charles H. Hurt. Thomas N. Tavlor James H. Douglas. Frank Hv.m-- and Mrs. Davis. rr.