Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-09
First Orders to That Effect viii
Issue From Headquarters
This Evening.
SITE A DESIRABLE LOCATION.
Specially To be Made OF Camp kitch-
ens.--Every Hour TO Count for
Good of state Militia.

The first orders for the next annual
encampment Of the state national
guard will be published this evening.
The encampment last year was held in
Wyoming, near Cheyenne, and the ex-
perlence proved OF doubtful satistac-
ton as far as the Utah troops were
concerned. owing to the distance. ana
difficulty of reaching the location from
Salt Lake. This year, the encamp-
ment win he held at American Fork,
near Utah lake, Central location. ana
yet sufficiently distant from this city
to enstire entire attention to the work
In hand.
Adjutant General Wedgewood Will is
sue the following order this evening,
relative TO the encampment;
ENCAMPMENT ORDERS.
The companies OF and attached 10 this
command will report for field instruc-
ton Aug. 25, 1907 The companies In
Salt Lake City will be assembled at
the armory at such q time as to enable
them to entrain at the ID. & r. G. de-
pot at $40 a. m. Mai. W. r. Will
liams will command and will issue all
necessary orders ana instructions tor
assembly of troops.
Company b, Ogden, will assemble In
time to entrain at the Union depot at
a. m. Upon arrival In Salt Lake the
company commander will report to Mai
williams.
Company f, Manti, will entrain at
sanpete Valley railroad depot at $40
a. m. The company commander VIII
report to Major Fred Zimmerman.
Major w. r. Williams will have
charge of the train from Salt Lake. He
will detrain the command at American
Fork and after putting baggage on
wagons, will march troops to camp.
Major Fred Zimmerman will have
charge OF train from south, and will
detrain likewise.
Captain Earl Y. Smith. quartermas-
ter First infantry is detailed as camp
quarternaster. He will be assisted In
his duties by the battalion quarter
master. who will report to him by letter
at once.
Lieut.. VIM f. Kneass. battalion ad-
jutant, is detailed as camp commits
sary.
Each company and the Signal corps
will, forward a detail of four enlisted
men to pitch camp. These men will re-
port for duty on Aug. "a Company
commanders will receive transportation
and instructions as to the time of de-
parture for their detail from the camp
quarterrnaster
The messing of the command viii he
by company Company commanders
viii take immediate steps to secure the
necessary cooks for their command.
Each mess will be In direct charge OF
commissary officer who VIII be held re-
sponsIble for the proper cooking Of the
ration and that the kitchen Is kept in
sanitary condition
The personal baggage of officers and
the field desks of companies only will
accompany the troops--all others viii
be shipped In the camp equippage.
EVERYTHING READY.
Colonel Piummer called attention this
morning TO the fact that when the
troops reached the site OF the encamp-
nent. they would find the tents pitched.
and everything i'm readiness for occu-
pancy as the detail referred to In the
above orders would go down the day
ahead and attend to everything. There
would be n place for everything. md
everything in its place.
Regimental Adjutant Webb has also
prepared a notice to company COM
manders, stating. I am instructed by
the regimental commander TO call your
attention TO the paragraph elating TO
the commissary. He desires that the
company Kitchens be conducted in the
best possible manner, and under strict
~ sanitary conditions. and all be kept
neat and clean. The raiions should be
especially cooked so that there he no
waste. You are to have cook. and II.
II can be included In the allowance of
$3.50 per day. n helper. The ration
should consist of wholesome food. 1t
will be we'll to secure kitchen arrange
ments at once. The uniform for Of
ficers will he Khaki, leather legglns,
tan shoes and campaign hat"
A MODEL CAMP.
II is evident from the careful prepara-
tons being made that the encampment
at American Fork Is to be model one,
and everything done right up in regula-
ton shape. All the officers from the
colonel down are taking unusual inter-
est In the occasion. under the expert
enced direction OF the adiutant general.
More attention will be paid TO the
culinary department this year than ever
before. and the troops will be laugh.
how to maintain and conduct model