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Show Group of Visitors Enjoy Open House At Camp DG-35 As a part of the "open house": activities at Milford Camp DG-35, Civilian Conservation Corps, in' connection with Fifth Anniversary j week, about 30 members of the Milford Lions club and Beaver, Chamber of Commerce Tuesday) enjoyed a tour of the camp build-j ing and a delicious dinner in the J mess hall, followed by a 90-miej tour of reservoir projects constructed con-structed by members of this camp. The rainy weather Tuesday no doubt interfered not a little with i attendance at camp activities but those who were not present missed an informative treat that was enjoyable en-joyable throughout and all the guests completed their visit convinced con-vinced that the local camp is an exemplary one from all points or view. The camp recreational hall, library, laundry and wash room, infirmary, kitchen, commissary, and other departments were shown the visitors and, while for some who had not visited this or other camps before, the experience was interesting and enlightening, to others who had made a dozen or more visits to this and other camps' under different officers, the visit was equally of value, demonstrating demonstrat-ing as it did, the vast improvement improve-ment that can take place in the C C C under proper methods ana direction. The dinner served the visitors 1 was tasty and of great variety, vari-ety, prepared and served in capable cap-able manner by regular enrollees. The meal, too, was the 'best that any of the visitors had theretofore partaken of in any C C C camp, but was said to be typical of those served regularly to the men. Company 469, Camp LG-35, Milford, Mil-ford, is commanded by Lieutenant Rupert Ingram, with Lieutenant Raymond Egan second in command. com-mand. Leslie C. Koch is camp superintendent for the division of) grazing and Jay V. Thompson is i educational adviser. Dr. R. R. i Shannon, local physician and presi- dent of the Lions club, is contract surgeon for the camp, which is ' pretty well made up of Mississippi and Louisiana young men. Several ! items of equipment in the camp, net regular government issue, ! was purchased by members of this company while originally stationed J at one of the southern memorial i parks and this fact is related with ! pride by officers and men alike, j Distinguished out-of -county visitors visi-tors who joined with the others in inspecting camp and projects were E. H. Frenzell, now division chief of range improvement, with seven i western states under his direc-jticn; direc-jticn; and Ralph Smith of Salt I Lake, district inspector in tht i works division. Mr. Frenzell formerly for-merly held a position of about equal importance in the range permits division under the Taylor act setup, and is known personally or by name to many of the stockmen stock-men and others of Beaver county. The tour of work projects was participated in by three carloads of guests, the tour being conducted conduct-ed by 'Superintendent Koch, Mr. Frenzell and Robert Cheatham, of-j of-j fice assistant to Superintendent Koch. I Starting out oyer highway 91-W, I (Continued on last page) Visitors Enjoy (Trip (Continued from first page) which was found plenty "greasy'' in spots, due to the rainy weather the first stop was made at what is Vnnwn Mnlnnp rAservnir. located about 15 miles north of Milford and a short distance west of the road. While this project is far from impressive in size, it is said to have a capacity of more than a million and a quarter gallons gal-lons of water. Despite the fact that it was necessary to haul the rock for the face of this dam for a distance of five miles, the project pro-ject was completed in eight days time. The primary objective of the field trip was to view what is known as the Lake View reservoir. This is one of the most pretentious preten-tious of the reservoirs projected by this camp and is something well worth making the trip to see. It is located 12 miles west of Black Rock by way of a fine new road completed by the C C C as a con, tinuation of the road from Cove J Fort junction with highway 91 to j Black Rock. This reservoir, to be completed the forepart of May, will have a capacity of 200 acre feet of water and 15,000 cubic yards of material will be involved in the construction of the dam, which will have a puddled-clay cere, a type which is proving emi-nantly emi-nantly successful wherever tried out. From the site of this dam there is a commanding view of the old Sevier Lake bed, extending bo the north. We repeat, this is a trip worth making with an excellent road all the way except when wet and a wonderful insight into the construction of these projects and the capable work of enrollees, equipment and supervisory force will be gained if the trip is made before the dam is c:mpleted. The return trip was made by continuing along the route ol this Pine valley-bound road un'il Wah Wah valley was reachEnl, turning south there and traveling in er Svine 12 miles of absolutely level hardpan at limitless speed, to join highway 21 near old New-house. New-house. On the way, the par;y viewed what is known as the New-house New-house reservoir. Here, utilizing a a large area of natural dike for which this valley is noted, there has been constructed a comparatively compara-tively small roek-faced dam which will impound between ItiOO anu 1700 acre feet of water, according to Superintendent Koch if ever there is that much flood water a-vailablo, a-vailablo, which that gentleman doubts very much, despite the accounts ac-counts given him of the huge summer floods in Wah Wah valley, val-ley, most of which water is calcu-I calcu-I latetl to enter this reservoir and a smaller one, known as the Dutchman's, Dutch-man's, constructed some four years ago by drouth relief agencies. All of these winter range reservoirs reser-voirs must, of necessity, depend on these summer floods or cloudbursts cloud-bursts for filling with water fo stock use in the fall and winter, and a typical cloudburst season is' awaited with considerable interest by those who are at variance as to the amount of runoff from these storms, since last summer afforded afford-ed little to judge by, being unusu-; ally deficient in the way of summer sum-mer storms of cloudburst propor- j tions. ! n ' |