Show I II I MILES OF MULES AT CAMP LEWIS Cantonment Remount Station Station Station Sta Sta- tion Resembles Stock Ranch on Plains I IBy By Associated Press CAMP IP LEWIS Tacoma Wash Nash I April 26 A A visitor at Camp Lewis who ventured out through the three miles of barracks between the the- en entrance entrance entrance en- en l trance of f Camp Lewis w s' s and nd the l remount re remount remount re- re re- re mount depot would think that he had suddenly stepped from the army cantonment cantonment cantonment can can- into a vast horse and mule I ranch in Wyoming or Montana InI in instead instead In- In I stead of part of the national army I Everywhere one can see there are corrals wagon houses hay sheds and quantities of equipment The barracks are story one-story ranch houses and tho the atmosphere is altogether one of rustic rustle peace rather than preparations for tor winning a war There are miles and miles of board fences lanes and streets streets all all muddy streets where streets where the heavy Vas Washington ington rains have been mixed with the prairie soil by thousands of hoofs until it isa isa is isa a thick sticky black mess There are warehouses a a. silo and stockyards where horses are loaded on trains or unloaded There are great quantities of hay stored in the warehouses or in sheds and more Js is constantly coming In JF n for tor forIt forit it takes at times tons of haya day dayto dayto dayto to feed the horses and mules here At present about 1800 are out in a Held field back of the remount station feeding on green foliage The combined experience of these Western Vestern ranchers now In Uncle Sams Sam's service has been used to devise numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu improvements in the handling of horses which have resulted in greatly facilitating the work For branding horses or examining them for disease a crowding pen is used consisting of a narrow alley one en end 3 of which opens funnel shape and the tho theother theother other having a swinging gate for a awall awall wall arranged so that the horses can be held tightly while they are being branded or examined The horse is driven into the tho funnel shaped end sq squeezing th the animal against Ithe the op opposite opposite op- op wall It means safety both for forI forthe forthe I the animal and for fox the men Tho The crowding pet pel has been used I times without an accident a fact fad w which speaks well for the invention In the tile stockyards the alleys a and d gates g-ates are the same width width fourteen fourteen feet feet so so that when the tile horses hores arc are released re- re leased leasel from flom one ono pen pen the the alley can be converted convert d into another pen and there Is 3 less work in driving the animals wherever desired For loading anc and andu u unloading a crowding pen is used an and l gates of adjustable length permit of loading without was wash of time in spotting spotting spotting spot spot- ting them In in a limited space Three Tl ree cars can be loaded at once and Captain Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Jackson believes his arrangement means a vast savin saving of time in getting getting get getting get get- ting under way the tho mounts for the tho entire division whenever it shall be called away Perhaps thero there is no place in the tho United States so unfavorable for carIng carIng caring car car- Ing for large numbers of horses as Camp Lewis There is Js rain the tho gre greater great greater great great- ter t- t er part of the year making of the roads great rivers of mud and ever every low place is converted into a pond But despite the these e handicaps the Camp Lewis remount depot men have constructed the largest remount depoi depot depo i in the United States and probably no noI I other remount station has such a body I of If men all aU expert cattlemen and horsemen horsemen horse horse- men of the plains for handling their thel I mounts |