Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-02
School of Fire and Cantonment
Will House Thousands
m of Troops.
MANY AvIATORS ARE COMING
Artillery, Infantry and Fliers
Will Be in Operation
S--s Pretty Soon.
(B. FLOYD l.. STONES

Camp Doniphan, located Just west
of Fort Sill. Okla, the army canton.
ment base for Oklahoma, is one OF
the largest troop camps in the
United States. The whole land ac-
tually occupied by the soldiers for
their camps and drill grounds and
rifle and artillery ranges comprise n.
tract of 99 square miles The grounds
reach from Fort Sill to the forest
reserve in the Wichita mountains. II
miles west and Is miles wide, CON
tanning 100000 acres.
An Artillery Camp.
The camp is laid out with the main
barracks and tho headquarters near
Fort Sill. The cantonment was laid
out as essentially an artillery camp
and permanent stables and barre Ks
have been erected Each battalion
is quartered in Il separate two-story
cement building with ground floor
about 100 by 30 feet. The barracks
are located In the eastern portion Of
the camp, while the range is about
-four miles farther to tho west just
west of the barracks are the buildings
housing the guns used by the ar
tiffery There are about fifty three
inch guns at the fort. The stables
for the horses belonging to the
cavalry and to the fire school of the
field artillery are also permanent
buildings and house about three hum
dred mounts.
1000 Wooden Mess Halls.
Substantial mess halls and build
ings are heiny erected for the troops.
which will be moved TO the canton
ment from Kansas and Missouri, The
hull In
around the outer part of the present
camp. Each building Is about $50
feet long by 80 feet wide. on the
northern side o. the fort they are
built in a row over mile long. On
the west side they form Il line nearly
ee-ouarters of mile long and the
row on the south side OF the camp
is about as long. These bui o,nes are
erected at the rate of one every
the buildings have their work so ar
ranged that each one has Just GER
tain hit OF work to do or each build
ing. n'he lumbe Is all cut and meas
ured before 1t is sent to the carpen-
ters and by such methods they are
allie to put tho houses together at
such a rapid rate. Each building has
wooden table thru the center of the
hall with q seating capacity of about
one end of each building. There is
one building for each company,
which is to be situated at the camp
Besides the mess halls there a,v
latS'ne and bath houses for eaci,
company. Temporary buildings are
being erected and used as head
quarters for the new troops who are
being moved in. Besides these build
ings there are the "Canteens." These
are the stands managed by each regi-
ment and they handle cold drinks,
candy. cigars and cigarets, stationery
stamps and other commodities for the
men in camp. The profits from these
stands go into the funds of the regi-
ment
1000 WOrkmcn on New Camp.
Approximately four thousand work.
men-carpenters. plumbers, fittefs
and mechanics and men of all traues'
are employed by the Selden- -Breck-
Construction company of Kansas CITY
on the work in the cantonment at
Camp Doniphan. The monthly pay
roll for these men is between two and
three thousand dollars. These mel,
are stalking out the camp. erecting
the buildings, installing electric lights
and telephones, laying water mains
from the city of Lawton to the camp
and doing all other work necessary in