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Show J BRIDGE MOUNTAIN CAMP Bridge Mountain camp at Zion National park, had a distinct rise i in educational stock this week with the completion of a school I house. What has been the drying dry-ing room for laundry work, a ' building fifty feet by twenty feet had been converted into a school house by the addition of windows and division of the building into a reading and two class rooms and a photography dark room. Blackboards are being secured and chairs have been supplied from Fort Dauglas for the class rooms. According to educational adviser ad-viser Von H. Robertson, the library li-brary of Bridge Mountain camp, now numbering over 600 volumes is among the best CCC libraries. As it is now set up in the new reading room it forms a real educational ed-ucational and recreation center. Two hundred and twentyt-fivfe volumes of the library are reference refer-ence works, text books and general gener-al information sources in wide fields of study. Sciences, agri-culture, agri-culture, forestry conservation, electricity, business, English, and sociology are all represented on its shelves and there are 200 volumes vol-umes of fiction and literature. Many of these books both fic tion and non-fiction have been donated the library by parents of enrollees, high schools, and clubs and by the men in the camps themselves; Also books of interest in vocational work, citizenship citi-zenship studies, volumes on current cur-rent problems in invention, engineering en-gineering etc., are added periodically period-ically from funds supplied the camps for educational purposes. Aside from the books in the library the company is supplied each week with current issues of . thirty-nine leading magazines, trade journals, popular and scientific scien-tific monthlies and story magazines. |