The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-02
NENANA|IE GETS
INFORMATION ON
ENGINEER CORPS
Well Known Klondykers Are Now
Officers in New Regiment of
Engineers.

Frank Murphy, general foreman of
the A. E. C. electrical staff, has re-
Gently received advice in the matter
of a new Engineers regiment which
is being recruited for service in
France.
Several we'll known Dawsonites
are officers in this regiment, among
them o. B. Perry, former general
manager for the Guggenheim inter-
ests in Dawson, and Raymond E.
Franklin, electrical engineer for the
Yukon Gold Co., in Dawson.
Mr. Murphy has made application
for enlistment in this new regiment,
the details of organization being in
letter which is as follows:
Mining Service.
l. The Engineer corps of the
| United States army has been author
lied to raise, by voluntary enlist
ment, special Mining regiment, to
consist of six companies of $50 men
each, to be known as the 9th En-
gineers, National army. This regi-
ment is now being recruited. The
first company has been formed and
is in training at Camp Meade, Md.
2. This regiment is to be made
up entirely of picked men from the
various mining sections of the coun-
try All trades and occupations in
and around a mine will be repre-
scented and each company will have
sufficient number of men skilled
in each trade to enable 1t to operate
as a unit.
3. The work to be done is purely
military in character and what is
known as first line" work. 1t con-
sists of the preparation of under
ground shelters for the fighting
troops and the placing of explosive
mines. This work requires a high
degree of skill in rapid tunneling
construction and involves the hand
ling of all sorts of material from
clay and chalk to hard rock. In
addition to the regular engineer
equipment, each company will be
provided with special tools such as
tunneling and boring machines, COM
pressors, drilles, hoists, lighting sets.
4. While most of the work of the
9th Engineers will be underground
mining, the regiment will be trained
to fight as we'll as to mine. The
commanding officer will be a regular
army engineer officer. the remain
ing officers of the regiment being
largely drawn from the mining en-
gineers who have volunteered their
services and who have been given
the necessary training at the officers
training camps.
5. All men who volunteer for
this service will be enlisted as pri-
Yates, but those who show them
selves qualified will be raised to the
grade of non-commissioned officer.
Any recruiting officer will enlist
men for this regiment, but each man
must show proper qualifications by
way Of experience and pass the usual
examination. All men between the
;ages of Is and Al are eligible for
enlistment, if not actually drawn on
the draft. The inclosed sheet gives
full particulars of the service and
instructions for enlistment.
6. The 9th Engineers offers a
great opportunity for the miners Of
this country to show their skill and
courage. Any experienced mining
man who wants first line service in
France is urged to enlist at once.
Experienced miners, both hand
and machine drillers, muckers, tram
mers, timbermen, tracklayers, pump
men, hoistmen, blacksmiths and tool
sharpeners, electricians, machinists,
carpenters, surveyors, time-keepers,
cooks, shift bosses, mine foremen
and topmen, are wanted to enlist in
i the 9th Engineers Especial Mining
lRegiment.)
| All men are enlisted as privates
and from such will be chosen the
following for each company, who
are maid as follows. the below scale