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Show at some point noar Salt Lake. This will enable the outside companies, now six in number, to appear In the parade with the organizations, making upwards up-wards of 600 milltlamon in line If recruiting re-cruiting continues for the noxt two months as it has done sinco the action ac-tion of the senato was recorded In the matter of providing for a new armory and arsenal. Of the rogulars there will bo one full regiment. GRAND ARMY VETERANS BUSY , LENDING EVERY EFFORT TO MAKE ENCAMPMENT SUCCESS. All Organizations In the State Making Arrangements for Great Annual . 'Gathering of Veterans. Tho Grand Army veterans of Ogden Og-den are lending their "beBt efforts toward to-ward making arrangements for the great national encampment of the CJ. A. R , which will be held in Utah next year, beginning August' 9th. No pains will be spared on the part of the Dlx-Logan Dlx-Logan Post at Ogden to make next year's encampment ono of the most profitable and interesting since the conoluslon of the civil war. According to reports all other Grand Army organizations of the state are working in the same earnost way to make the encampment a great success. suc-cess. The Salt Lake, Provo, Logan and other city Grand Army organizations organiza-tions are putting forth a llko effort to meet the demands of the greatest national encampxnont yet held. The j desire of th veterans is to show the veterans from all other parts of the Union that Utah Is true blue in her patriotism and kv of country. Tho preparation now In vogue from all over the state Is perhaps the most extraordinary ex-traordinary ever undertaken for a similar event, the purpose carried car-ried out in the preparation of the program pro-gram being educational, historical and pleasurable. There will not be many moro national encampments of the Gtand Army held, because within the next decade nearly all of tbe old light-, ors who barod their broa6ts to the bullets of the adversary and risked their lives for the preservation of the union will have passed away. Then will follow exercises dedicated to their memories. It is planned to make the Fouvenlr program of the Grand Army encamp ment one of the most elaborate affairs ever issued for similar conventions. The plan Includes the compilation of historical data, that are. to be of greater great-er general Interest to the war veterans veter-ans and those who are assoolated with them than has ever bofore been gathered gath-ered In ono publication. Col. Sterrett, of Salt Lake, Is sending out from the executive headquarters letters Inviting In-viting bids on this book. It is to be undertaken at onoo and bids will be opened and tho contraot let March 10. From Commander-in-Chief Ncvius a telegram has been received which instructs in-structs Col. Sterrett to invite Gen. Wedgwood to order the participation of the National Guard of Utah in the parade In the commander'6 honor. A similar request will bo made of Col. Walter Scott, commanding the Fifteenth Fif-teenth Infantry stationed atJ Fort Douglas. With the two military organizations or-ganizations in line In addition to other uniformed societies and organizations, quite a spectacular pageant may be expectod. Both the military and the regulars will no doubt be turned out In full dress, resplendent In the colors denoting the arms of servico and with gold braid on officers uniforms. Tho soldiers, both of the regular os-tabllahuieut os-tabllahuieut and of the militia, will form the escort of the commander-in-chief. It is tho plan of Gen. Wedgwood to havo the annual encampment of the National Guard of Utah' begin Just be-foro be-foro tho Grand Army encampment and |