The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27
CARPETS MEMORIAL
To Congress Concerning the Perma-
nent Army Camp Prepared
and Forwarded.
THE PAPER A SHORT BUT SIONG ONE.
1t Covers the Ground Thoroughly and
Shows That Garrett COunty's Site IL
Superior to the One Recommended BY
the Army Board.

The committee representing the
citizens of Garrett county appointed
at recent meeting to draft a memoir
irl to Congress has had it printed and
on Monday forwarded it to Congress
man Pearre for distribution among
the members of the Senate and House
Of Representatives. The memorial is
a four-page pamphlet, neatly printed
on good quality of book paper and
sets forth clearly the advantages of
Oakland and Garrett county as To-
cation for the camp site over the site
in Pennsylvania as recommended by
the Army Board. The paper covers
the ground thoroughly and sets out
clearly the great natural advantages
of the Garrett county site. 1t is pub
lished in full, as follows:
To the Honorable, the Members Of the
Senate and House Of Representa-
ti0eS of the United States:
GENTLEMEN: The memorial of the
citizens of Garrett county, in the
State of Maryland, respectfully rep
resents-
That under and by virtue of an Act
of the 57th Congress of the United
States, provision was made for the
location of four permanent army
camps of instruction and mobiliza-
ton, one of which camps, under the
provision of said Act, was to be locat-
ed between the 39th and 41st parallels
of North latitude. Three of said
camp sites have been selected and the
location of the fourth between the
said parallels is, we are advised, I'M
determined, although it appears from
the public prints that the Army
Board to whom the matter of its Sc
lection was referred by the Honorable,
the Secretary of War, has recon-
mended site located in the Como
WACO Valley, in the counties of Leb-
anon, Dauphin and Lancaster, in the
State of Pennsylvania.
Believing that Garrett county,
Maryland, located between the 39th
and 41st parallels of latitude afore-
said, possess many superior advant-
ages over the site proposed and sug-
gested by the Army Board for the es-
tablishment of the fourth camp, we
most earnestly present for your care
full consideration few points of van
tage claimed for Garrett county,
Maryland, as the most desirable stu
alton for said camp
1. That the subcommittee of the
Army Board which inspected the site
we now propose, comprising more
than 10000 acres, frankly admitted
that it possessed every advantage for
the uses to which it is designed to
put it; the land is rolling, watered
with streams flowing from natural
springs and affording an. abundance
OF the purest water and in quantities
sufficiently large for every..purpose of
the camp. This site is located about
two miles northwest of Oakland,
Maryland, and bounded as follows:
On the South by the main line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; on the
West by the boundary line between
the States of Maryland and West Vir-
ginia; on the North by Muddy Greek,
and on the east by the Great Youghio-
gheny River.
2. That the elevation is something
over $500 feet above sea level.
3. There is no section in the entire
Eastern part of the United States
that possesses so many advantages
from the standpoint of healthfulness
being absolutely free from malaria
and its kindred diseases-and thous-
ands of people during the last fifty
years have annually visited this
mountain plateau in quest of health
and for the purpose of rest and re-
cuperation.
4. No camp of tie proportions of
the proposed one could obtain a sani-
tary situation more favorable and ex-
tensiye, as the natural drainage is
perfect and the streams of sufficient
volume and rapidity to carry off all
deleterfous substances. Ample facil-
tiles for bathing are afforded in the
purest waters. The atmospheric so
invigorating that even in the hottest
days of summer men can undergo
without fatigue the maximum amount
of exertion; the thermometer rarely
registers morel.than so degrees; the
nights are delightfully."- cool and re-
freshing, and mosquitos.are unknown.
8. The moral environment is of the
highest type and:free from the conta-
gion of the cities and large towns.
6. An abundance of forage can be