| Show PERSHING CHANGES I HIS BASE CAMP CAMPS CAMPIN S IN THE FIELD Namiquipa Abandoned by 1 in Americans Entrench Mormon Valley 5 DIG FOR PROTECTION F Force e Ample to Withstand T. T Ti Any ny Attack Th That t May MayS S S Be Made on Troops B By CEO GEO H. H CLEMENTS G GENERAL ENE R A L PERSHING'S HEADQUARTERS in the Field J June ne 21 By Motor Truck Train Traill to tc Columbus N N. N M. M July 1 1 I C This big camp which is growing S bigger every day has been moved a again that I that that is to sa say in the provision of room for added increments it has b been found necessary or deemed wise S t td move the headquarters from the the j b beautiful grove on the bank of the Rio I Casas Grandes in which we have haie been camped since coming from the South S t to the open plain to the eastward of the river where we will be in closer touch with a a. gre greater greter ter number of comI commands com- com I mands making up the garrison 0 We Ve miss the shade and we miss much more the swimming hole which was in such close proximity to the old camp Sq v at Namiquipa that we could make It without much travel In our pajamas and slippers every morning We still may may swim but we miss the early morning mornS morning morn- morn S ing Jug plunge which put us In such good S. S trim for the heat of the middie middie mid- mid S die of the day 5 5 5 Tho heat Is the real thing for Int intensity in- in S t the thermometer ter often regist regis regis- t i ring no to degrees above the zero in the sun for several hours at a time I Little LttIe Humidity But it Is not so enervating as the would indicate to a a. reader who S 1 may live where the percentage of or humidity huS hu- hu S S J is higher than it is here at an elevation lavation of or feet above the sea seal l lel vel IS v I vIn S In spite of or the heat registered during S the daytime the nights are cool not to toS S say cold and refreshing sleep under as as blankets as we were used to in inS S tIe he winter time tirol is possible That I makes it easier to stand the heat and I if it it furnishes the most potent reason for forthe the splendid health of the men in this S and other camps along the lines occupied I pied by the tho American forces i y Sr The Tho changing of the lines of the 4 S camp has made It necessary that much Si slew w trenching be done In order that all I. I t f be he provided against and it L being done clone in iii a manner calculated to tomake 4 make the camp practically i ni HI against any but a force many timea ff W lIr number and well supplied with ar- ar atti ti MV It Yi provide for the health of the men menI the newer portions of the camPt many new wells wens have been dug t I End and pumps driven or otherwise in- in InS S S from which an abundance of J splendid pl water for culinary and iS purposes is being secured New Possibilities 5 The sinking and driving of these fr wells is demonstrating the presence at comparatively shallow depths of an anS S abundance of water sater which when p peace ace aceti ce cef ti- ti is restored may be brought to the surface sur- sur t r face taco at small cost for irrigating pur pur- ii I poses noses oses The probable effect of t this is will b be to convert the whole of the great i TJ r plain lain upon which the towns of Nuevas S' S Cases Grandes S and Colonia Dublan Dubian are 4 located into grain fields vineyards ori or- or i J i and gardens and the homes of z i p n do of happy and contented men d and children II n 7 Whether those contented settlers and j of the soil will be Mexicans or of other S members races will depend depends s- s jv pori so many things that a discussion fl 1 that at particular phase of or the tle question S T be out of place at this moment I S What What Mormons Have Done S S I S The Mormons who occupy several j t t acres in this valley have 4 If spent many thousands of dollars In the 1 de development of water for fOl irrigation t the only result obtained ther up r tp the present time being the creation creationS S e f Jwo or three large artificial bodies bodes M of water wate locally known f as the Mormon Mor Mormon r. r mon mon coon lakes Si 1 lad Iad it not been for the beginning beginning- of SASS the revolutionary era five or six years 5 ag 9 the water gathered from a lage large S. S area into the basins now S overflowed overflowed- by the Mormon lakes S long since have e been carried ih i acequias q to the efa fa farms o of oar ar those t f Sr v who o had contributed to the cost of the i S water w er development and the valleyS valley S Would vp-uld vp be much better developed along w Agricultural lines than it is at present S When the development of the lakes S I was 1115 begun the idea of Irrigating by m means ans of pumps was not thought S 'S Since that time the crude oil Jo I L engine has been perfected to a point a where here water may be brought to the I surface in ii large quantities at very ery I small mall cost and has made possible the 1 1 r reclamation of or sections of country such suchS i S if jI ass this with water but a few feet belo below be- be I 0 lo lo low the grass roots I G Good God od Rods Roads Being Developed i The he w work of making the roads along ri the tle whole line of communication from front t i I th border to the point of American erica erica- occupancy ready for the rr I- I rainy season continues The grading 1 t and graveling mentioned in former dispatches dis- dis disS S patches is being supplemented with R rolling and split log dragging till tilt a i 1 r roadbed ro capable of or holding up under S y wettest c conditions has been secured d dJ J If I for the greater part of the entire distance dis dis- l tance 7 lOne i One of the effects of the road buildIng build build- f ing in will be to enable the getting of the greatest possible number of trucks over S t th h road fad d in the shortest possible time I I 1 each carrying n a maximum load f r S This i will mean that s will be no 5 t Ii d dearth rth of or supplies of or all Kinds along c line no matter how much S f rain rainfalls falls during the wet months J The rainy Iny season I has been someI something some some- I thing of ot a a. bugaboo ever since we have C been In tIe the country and ha has caused S more more than one one chill chill to run up the spines of some of the men soldiers t i as as well wel as civilians connected with the I expedition I Whether or not the commander peri permitted permitted per per- i himself to worry over the t threatened situation is not known In any aby event vent he be seemingly did not propose to permit himself or the men under his command to suffer for Cor food or raiment because of bad roads and took toole steps to tout cut ut the words bad roads out of the of the army |
