Last year's exceptionally large enrollment enabled a professional caterer, Hatch Farnsworth, to be hired to provide the food. Farnsworth, who operates out of Delta, Utah, specializes in serving field camps with hearty fare. The chuck wagon, stocked with the basics in Delta, followed the caravan through the hills, stopping along the way to replenish its perishables. Mines provides a large tent, folding tables and chairs, and a portable generator to supply light at night. All of this gear, plus surveying equipment, is stowed in a two-wheel trailer, which protests regularly with flat tires.
Volunteers are just as regularly designated to provide repairs.
At 7 a.m. the men left for the field. At the close of the six weeks, the students have behind them an intensive look at Colorado's mineral heritage, which will probably be more appreciated in retrospect. So concentrated is the work that one graduate student pleaded with Dr. Weimer to release him form the camp's final week.