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Show Numerous Projects Stand Completed By West Camp The Desert Range Experiment Station C C C camp is bringing to a close 16 work projects and the camp will move Monday, May 31, to Wil son Veyo, just south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the summer. During the last five and one-half months C C C Camp F-33 has been engaged in a multiple of assignments, assign-ments, including construction work, improvement and repair work, anil maintenance work on the 87 square miles of the experimental range. To date ten of the buildings at the station have been painted from roof to ground; all are expected to be finished ibefore the damp moves. The experiment station office, of-fice, dormitory, barn, pump plant building, light plant building, cold storage building, three garages find two residences are freshly painted. The major buildings have been constructed; one, a warehouse, with a garage workshop and Ibasement; the other a cold storage building, with a 12-ton ice catacitv. All of tho fence on the experiment experi-ment range has been checked and repaired and an additional eight and one-half miles were constructed. construct-ed. All roads in the area were improved, im-proved, graded and put in first class condition. Eleven and one-half one-half miles of new roads have been constructed, two miles of which consist of dugway and riprap i work. I On the erosion control project, two watering ponds for cattle were constructed. Sixteen miles of telephone line were constructed, and the length of the line from Milford to the station was checked and repaired. A topographic survey map of the area is being made but is not expected to be completed until next year. During the winter months, six weeks were spent in road clearance and snow removal work. Over 135 j miles of road were cleared of snow j ar.d opened by the Desert Range I camp. Eighty-eight tons of feed I were hauled to stranded sheep j bands in cooperation with the divi-j divi-j sion of grazing. ! Each foreman and Superinten-i Superinten-i dent in camp has held at least one class and many of the foremen have had two classes each week in vocational training all conducted 'outside of working hours. The ; classes had a total enrollment of 201 students. Among the classes proving popular with the boys ( were erosion control, forest stand improvement, fence construction, leather craft, principals of motion picture projection, plane survey-ig, survey-ig, typewriting and dancing. |