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Show . . t CCC Camp Moves To Desert Camp With all preparations completed for their coming and the Desert Range Experiment station in Pine valley transformed into quite a community, com-munity, CCC company No. 19G4 was transferred Tuesday from its summer campsite in Beaver canyon to the winter site 50 miles west of Milford. There are some 235 officers and men included in the company and the company trucks were taxed to capacity to transport men and their personal belongings. It had been thought it might be necessary to hold the men in the Beaver mountains until the deer-hunting season closed, due to fire hazzards, but the recent heavy storms obviated this necessity and the transfer was a welcome one with the coming of the increasingly cold weather. Captain James M. Walker is commanding com-manding officer of company 19G2 while Dr. G. C. Arvin is the camp surgeon, and Marv Smith is company clerk. Lieutenant C. O. Frake, wdio has had charge of the barracks construction con-struction operations in Pine valley for the past several weeks and has done an excellent job of it will also remain with the officer personnel at the west camp. With him have been 25 men from company 1964 and a large number of carpenters, electricians, elec-tricians, painters and other artisans, recruited from within the county and employed at the site as the construction construc-tion progressed. With a plentiful and excellent water supply from the well drilled for use of the experiment station force, and electricity supplied by a large-capacity plant, also installed for station use, the winter location for company 19(54 is going to enjoy many advantages not enjoyed by other desert camps, only those located in much closer proximity to towns having the advantages of electricity. The pleasant relations existing between be-tween Milford people and both officer of-ficer personnel and enrollees of Camp Cahill during the spring and summer of 1933 will not soon be forgotten, and there is no reason why the same relations may not be resumed with benefit to both. The 1933 camp, located lo-cated at Wah Wah springs, approximately approxi-mately two-thirds of the distance to the Pine valley site, was named for First Sergeant W. J. Cahill, typical regular army non-com who was loved and respected by townspeople and enrollees en-rollees alike. Milford enjoys a country-wide reputation for hospitality and the I welcome extended to company 1964 as our neighbors and friends during i the winters sojourn is a real one! |