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The Utah Construction Company (Incorporated) General Railway Contractors Branch Office 723 McIntyre Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Nov 19th 1915

Officers W.H. Wattis President and General Manager M.S. Browning Vice-President E.O. Wattis Vice-President Henry H. Rolapp Secretary A.H. Christensen Treasurer General Offices 327 Twenty-Fourth St. Ogden, Utah

Directors W. H. Wattis E. O. Wattis A. H. Christensen O.W. Nibley M.S. Browning Henry H. Rolapp os. Scowcroft R. B. Porter L. R. Eccles P. O. Box 1276 Phone Wasatch 4435

Wm Spry Govenor of Utah Dear Sir I heartily congratulate you in the stand you have taken in the Hillstrom case. Also all who have been associated with you including the jury that convicted Hillstrom and the Judge that heard his case. I am for upholding our laws. the flag and constitution first last and all the time. Very truly yours C.J. Corey

January 8, 1916 Mr. C. J. Coray Utah Construction Co., 723 McIntyre Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. My dear Mr. Coray: Kindly accept this tardy acknowledgment of your letter of November 19th, in which you express your appreciation and approval of my stand in the Hillstrom case. The patriotic expressions of loyalty to the institutions of government which are contained in your letter, represent the sentiments which have been so potent in this community in curbing the lawless element in their utterances and acts of violence. The public officials of Utah fully appreciate the support of the good citizens of the State and this letter is intended to convey an expression of that appreciation. With the compliments of the season, I am Cordially yours, Governor.

Western Union Telegram Received at 147 Main St. Tribune Building, Salt Lake City, Utah Always Open Nov 19 1915

Independence Mo 922 {?} 19

Gov Wm Spry Salt Lake City Utah My hearty congratulations upon your stand for justice and right Joseph E. Cardon

January 24th, 1916. Mr. Joseph E. Cardon, Independence, Mo. My dear Mr. Cardon: I beg to thank you most sincerely for your telegram of congratulation on my action in the Hillstrom case. Your telegram would have been answered long since but I have been so busily occupied with other matters that it has been impossible to take care of the telegrams and mail before now. I wish you to know that I thoroughly appreciate your thought in conveying this expression of your approval of my action. Very truly yours, Governor.

A. H Belo & Co., Publishers The Dallas Morning News The (Dallas) Evening Journal The Galveston Daily News The Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News The Galveston Semi-Weekly Farm News Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide J. B. Peabody, Vice-President Jno. F. Lubben, Sec'Y-Treas G. B. Dealey, Vice-President & General Manager The Dallas News Dallas, Texas, In Answering Refer to Nov. 19th, 1915 Governor William Spry, Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Sir - I write to commend you for your courage and honesty in the Hillstrom case Surely we still have here and there a public man who has not sold out to the murderous robbers of even the I.W.Ws. I commend particularly your timely retort to President Wilson's inexcusable interferenes in this very sort of case in which he should have stood out for justice. It would afford me great pleasure to vote for you if I lived in Utah. I assure you that I entertain for you the highest respect. I knew nothing of Hillstom except the printed accounts, and am sure that I have considered the case on its merits. I consider that President Wilson comes out of it serioursly discredited. Yours very truly, Lester W. Clark