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Show 239 to its home station in Brigham City. On August 17th Troop G, 116th Cavalry relieved of duty at Helper and proceeded to the Annual Field Training Camp at Camp Williams which was conducted from August 17 to 31. At Ca mp Williams Troop G participated in the regular with the other units of was training the National Guard who subject had were there for their annual to recall to the coal mine in the mines quieted officers and Troop G duty was if it were training, but they were Since things necessary. sent home after the annual camp. Other who could be spared from the remaining units in Helper and Scofield were sent to the Jordan Narrows Camp. The sending of troops to the field camp for instruction left only five officers and 60 men in Helper, men however this was sufficient since the strike had been settled. On fall September 3rd any Guardsmen who wished to enter school that home, and on September 15, 1922 the conditions of martial Carbon County were wi thdrawn and the remaining troops were ordered were law in ordered to their home stations. 26 The cost of keeping the National Guard in Carbon County for the three $71,372.67 to the date of December 31, 1922 with a few more claims coming in afterwards and making the total nearly $75,000, which was allowed by the state as a deficit to be taken out of the General Maintenance month period was Fund used for the expenses of annual encampments and other needs. $75, 000 nearly tenance Fund. exhausted the But more $91,000 importantly citizens which cost human lives. In The biennial allotment for the General Main there an clashes of troops and were no tone Governor appreciative Mabey expressed his feelings about the strike. While it has been a constant for cause has burdened the minds of all conscientious are to a concerned in the commonwealth, rejoice over result of the strike. without case supplied in other in Our industries have interruption and have been we the absence of any distress our apprehension and public officials who Utah have just cause or inconvenience as proceeded almost domestic and commercial needs without interference. less fortunate states. As This has not been the a matter of fact our operating constantly throughout the strike, pro per cent of normal, and employing approximately mines have been ducing 73 to 82 26Biennial 1921-1922, pp. 10, Report of the Adjutant General, utah National Guard, 19. Deseret News, August 12,1922, Second Section, p. August 15, 1)22, First Section, p. 1: September 14, 1922, Second Section, Salt Lake Tribune, August 16, 1922, p. 22; August 17, 1922, p. 16. 1: p. 1. |
