The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
Typographical Reconnaissance by
the Fort Douglas Garrison.
THE PLAN GIVEN IN DETAIL
OFFICERS WHO WILL HAVE
CHARGE OF THE WORK.
Second Lieutenant Castle is the En-
gfneer Officer - Surgeons ajor
Girard--The New Water Guage-
The Post School.

The plan for a typographical recon-
Nuisance of the roads south of the post
for a distance of two miles and trib-
utary to Emigration canyon was yes
terday handed to the officers designated
by the commandant to take part in the
exercises today, by Second Lieutenant
Charles w. Castle, engineer officer.
Eacn detail, co1nprizing one officer and
two non-commissiDned officers, will
leave the post today ait 1880, carrying
light field equipment and lunch. Fol
lowing is the plan:
Instructions for reconnaissance prac-
tice, Sept 8, 1885,
Assume that ar army advancing
westward ON 9. single line of operations
has passed down Emigration canyon
and across the valley by the Garfield
Beach road. A force has been left in
camp upon a defensive position at the
mouth OF Red Butte canyon to protect
a supply depot and to hold this point
on the line Of communication there is
immediate danger of a cavalry raid be-
ing directed against the depot from
direction unknown. The commanding
officer orders that parties be sent out
to make q rapid Typographical recon
noisauce of the roads in the vicinity
with view to arranging a system of
patrol and oltpoSts.
Each party will advance at least ten
miles in the road assigned to it, start
ing from the flagstaff as an initial
point. Each sketch will be plotted in
conventional colors upon a single piece
of paper and submitted to the engineer
officer for compilation as soon as pos
sible after the return. Scale two inches
to one mile. Tactical information will
be noticed completely as practical BILE
under adj the heads prescribed III the
road reconnaissance blanke except those
relating to positions or camping
grounds. Officers are assigned as fol-
lows:
Lieutenant Sorley, by bicycle. Elev-
enth East and Twelfth South streets.
Lieutenant Woodward by escort wa
gon, Third street and City Creek can
yon.
Lieutenant Erwin by bicycle, South
Temple street and Hot Springs road.
Lieutenant Palmer, by horse, upper
county road through Holiday.
Lieutenant Spence, by horse, through
city and across the Jordan via Third
street
Lieutenant Carey, by oicycle road to
Brinston, via Sugar House ward.
Lieutenant Preston, by escort wagon,
Emigration canyon, returning by Noun
tain Dell basin and Parleys canyon.
Lieutenant Simmons. by escort wa
gon, Parley'S canyon, meeting Lieuten-
ant Preston's PARTY.
CHARLES W. CASTLE,
Second Lieutenant Sixteenth infantry,
Engineers officer.
The on-commissioned officers that
have been selected for the work, two
from each company, are as follows:
Company A, Sergeant Charles D.
Hunt Corporal E. F. Ledgerwood,
Company B, Color Sergeant Davis, Cor
poral c. c. CLANCY; Company G, Ser
geant Recob, Corporal Brown Company
d, Sergeant John H. McEvoy, Corporal
Baumgaertel; Company E, Sergeant A
T. Allen, Corporal ]. Silkforth; Com
pany F, Corporais Hagg and Mack
Company G, Sergeant r. N. Davidson
Lance Corporal Ballard; Company H
Sergeant Summerlin, Corporal Case.
Sergeon Major Girard is reported i'll
at his quarters.
Drum Major Kittley has donned q
new and very handsome white Busby
with a. black plume.
Private Walter Getchel of Company
B, will take a, furfough of three months
beginning ON Sept. Z, and will remain
in Salt Lake city.
First Sergeant Bradley, of Company
F, has been quite i'll at his quarters fo1
a week and Serg eanr Peter Carr is act
ing first sergeant instead.
Corporal George Donrrer and Private
George Miller of Company B, have re-
turned to the post from Mercur, where
they have been working in the mines
for three months.
Mrs. Mcintosh, wife of Private
Charles Mcintosh of the hospital corps
will leave the post Friday for San Ma
teo Cal, where she will remain for a
time for the benefit of her health.
About one-third of the patients i'm the
hospital are marked on the sick book
Complaint not contracted in the line
Of duty
The new water guage, costing $500
has been placed in the line back of the
officers club.
The application of Private Thomas
Leuard, of Company c, for a transfer
to the hospital corps, has been disap-
proved at army headquarters.
Private Mcclure of Company B, who
has been granted a fur-lough for three
months, will leave Saturday for Gal.
weston, Tex, and will, at the end Oh