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Show MILLIONS WASTED IN DETERIORATION OF CAMPDODGE War Institution Being Battered Bat-tered to Pieces by Blasts of Winter lKS MOINKH, Iowa. March 11.- (.'amp lKlg. representing an expenditure expendi-ture of millions by the I nlted States war department. Is being battered to piec-s by the wintry Masts. 1 he hundred of huge barracks and thousand of smaller buildiiiK are o-rtfd. The iuartrmaster art-house arc storod to the hrtm wnh rottinjc aup-plira aup-plira and material of all descr.ption". Ungons j re standing under open sheds, their wheels rusted. In th' middle of om- wsr. hui la a small mount un of sausage grinders j dumped upon the dirt floor. j Armv truck sr- huibilcd together In little groups like csltle tn a aiorui. i without even a canvas covering. 1 J tki k M:t;nkD. I These trucks will soon have dele- rloratfd to such an extent as to he i , worthless exrrpa for Junk. Iowa farm-I farm-I era would welctune the chanc to bid j ,n these Idle wagons and trucks. I The federal government will accept i : a bid of 14. Oiid offered by the a'.ale I i of Iowa for about 57 buildings, in- j eluding ninety of th big barracks, a ' huge resrrvoir and a complete water- I works a vat em with pumping stations and mama. This portion of the camp, lo be purchased pur-chased for the Iowa national aruarl, la on land owned hy the atate. The a' ate ! Is buying property valued at 1-.vm,-ftoo for S34.im)0. Three-fourthe of the buildtnga vn this section are to be torn down and the proceeds from the salvage to be us-) In maintaining a f permanent state camp 40 the remun-ng remun-ng quarter. LE4 AM) RU1, ' All the other buildings qf Hie C-n-p are doome'i by the elements. i - Many are already leaning or sag-1 gma Ther is a fortune in v inJow f glas alone in the deserted can.u. , rMumh'ng eimpmnt is going to waste. eYarrrly a s.nsle barrack Of batrho-is- has been atntped. Klecriat ftiturea. wiring and poles' were left behind.. I The wonderful"hae hospital, nail i ta aicommodat thousands of patients, I Is In a state of decrepitude. i Jswnewhere In the maxea of barrack! la slat ton ad one skeleton squadron oil |