Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 9 | L. D. S. Razes Transient Camp for Part in Welfare Plan

L. D. S. Razes Transient Camp For Part in Welfare Plan FARMINGTON The Lake View transient camp, constructed to care for part of the depression's wandering youth, was being razed and moved away Wednesday, once again to function In a charitable capacity. L. D. S. church welfare program and state road commission officials announced five buildings have been purchased by the church, four of which will be converted Into homes and the other salvaged for materials. ma-terials. The $13,000 camp.'erected In 1934 under the emergency relief administration, admin-istration, once offered shelter to as many as 200 transients at one time. When the W P A was started, need for the camp diminished dimin-ished and the forest service took It over. But lately, the camp has been virtually deserted, so the state road commission, owners of the property on which It stands, turned the buildings over to the L. D. S. church. Roscoe W. Eardley, storehouse supervisor. L. D. S. church weKsre plan, said the razing should be completed within three weeks, and that four of the five buildings will make Ideal houses. Some of the material from the large building, which Is being torn down. Is to be donated to the Layton American Legion hall, now under construction. construc-tion. I ,