The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-26
Detailed Instructions Issued
Regarding Encampment of
National Guard.
ARMY OFFICERS TO
DRILL THE MILITIA
Announcement Is Made as TO
When Various Detachments
viii Entrain.

Detailed instructions regarding the
ontrainmcnt Of the Utah National
Guard which will 90 INTO cncampmcnt
August ., near lIeber City were issued
Yesterday by Admtnnt General +. A.
Wedgwood.
The infantry companies VIII leave
their respective stations on the morning
of August > by special or regular tram
arriving at Heber City rs near noon AS
practicable, Company wagons. contain
ING ali necessary equipment or com
pany will he loaded ut salt Lake ana
be transported TO Hcbcr City, arriving
at the same time ms the men OF the
command.
Dctrcining at that point, Officers
and men entitled to be mounted, VIII
receive horses Company wagons Will
be transported to camp about three
and one.half miles north of Heber CITY
by teams from Eeber City. Equipment
for headquarters will be packed IN
wagon along with the wagons for the
organizations.
The hospital corps will travel with
the infantry and the wagon containing
It's equipment will be handled the same
as the wagons of infantry organiza-
tions.
The battery will entrain at Salt
Lake City with the infantry and hos
pital corps and travel by rail to Provo.
The camps of the infantry. battery
and signal corps Will be separate, but
within reasonable proximity to each
other The camp Of the hospital corps
Will be with the infantry.
Army Men to Instruct.
Can't. n Mel. Powell, u. S. A, re"
tired, is detailed by the war depart
ment as the instructor-inspeetor with
the infantry, signal corps and hospital
corps.
Capt. Dennis II. Currie, Third field
artillery, U. S. A, is detailed by the
war department us the inspector-in-
structor with the battery.
Capt H. LaF. Applewhite, y. s. A,
retired, on duty with the National
Guard of Utah, will make the practice
march with the signal corps,
The equipment of the individual sol
dier Wilt consist of blanket roll, cam.
paign hat, olive drab coat and
breeches, brown shirt, either cotton or
woolcn leggings and tan shoes if prac~
ticable, together with rifle equipment,
haversack and canteen and first aid
packages. Intrcnching tools for tho
organizations other than Company 3
will be provided at camp.
Companies to Entrain.
Company Is will cntrain at 7 a, m
Mt Ogden August 2 for transportation
over the Denver 6 Rio Grande railroad
to Salt Lake City on train known as
No. 6. At Salt Lake City the car in
which the command travels will be at
tached to the train conveying the gen
eral command to Provo and Heber
City.
Company II will entrain at Salt
Lake City ut a. m., August 2. The
hospital corps will entrain at Salt Lake
City at 8 a. IN. August 2.
The battery will entrain at Salt Lake
City August 2 at a. m. The details
of the movement will be prescribed BY
the organization commander.
The details of the practice march OF
the signal corps both to and from
camp will be arranged by the organiza
ti0n commander. due regard being paio
to the suggestions of Captain Apple
white and Captain Powell, instructor
inspector, assigned to the organization
by the war department.
Company f will entrain at Manti or
August on n special train al Il. m,
| Company G at Ephraim on the same
| train at T:20 Il. IN. and Company D a
| Mount Pleasant on the same train a
| sos a. m.