Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-09-13
WHERE BOYS CO N
sunny OLD SOUTH
Coolest In Winter Seldom Goes Below
Twenty Degrees-very Little
Snow Falls.

The following writeup of Charlotte.
N. c., where the boys of Company Z will
60 shortly on their way to the big war,
is contained in a special dispatch TO the
Boise Statesman from Charlotte, N. c.:
Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 10, Camp
Greene, national guard cantonment a
mile from this city, is complete save
for few remaining finishing touches
and Accommodations are in readiness for
the national guard division from the
far northwestern states, who, with prob
ably from 5000 to $4,000 guardsmen
from New England states, win receive
intensive training here before their de-
parture for foreign service.
Activities Of the constructors are now
conferred upon the great base hospitals,
composed of SO large buildings and is
expected to be used for treatment Of
convalescents returned here from the
firing lines in France and Belgium.
Other work is centered upon construction
Of the remount station, providing &C.
commodati0ns for 10000 horses and
mules, including hospital, sick corral
and convelescent corral. The hun
dreds of brick masOnS are now Just COM
pleting the construction of more than
800 brick incinerators for disposal of
garbage.
Neither the base hospital, remount
station nor the incinerators necessarily
must be completed before the arrival Of
troops.
Buildings Number 900.
The buildings ut Camp Greene, num-
bering 900 in the camp proper, are al
most entirely mess halls, with a rel
atively small number of bath houses,
laterines and tool and equipment ware
houses. TIL camp cover an area Of ap-
proximately 3k miles by 21a miles, and
one great street almost three miles long
is lined on one side by more than 100
company mess halls, it being intended
for the companies to pitch their tents
in parallel lines back to the mess houses.
The camp itself is roughly divided in
to four sections by the nature of the
terrain, the center of the camp site be-
ing rough and in some places rather
damp, which ground is not being used
for camp purposes.
Something more than 10 miles of fine
roads have been built within the camp
site, and about 20 miles of eight-inch
and 12-inch pipe lines for water mains
have been laid, in addition to many
more miles of small supply pipes. Two
great redwood tanks, each of 100000
gallons capacity, shipped from Califor-
MIA, will be used as storage reservoirs
insuring adequate water supply at all
times.
Guard Water Supply.
From the city pumping station on
Catawba river, about 10 miles from the
city, mounted troops will guard the
great pipe lines to the city's filtering
plants, it has been announced officially.
A complete switching yard, including
about five miles of tracks, has been
built by the Southern Railway system.
The government has erected 10 great
storage warehouses in this yard. Con
tracts have been let to wholesalers for
more than 60,000,000 pounds of supplies
Of all kinds, including fuel and food and
feed for men and beasts. Deliveries
are being made and will continue
through period of three months under
these contracts.
The Young Men 8 Christian asso
citation has number of great assem-
bly, halls within the camp. The citizen
organizations of Charlotte have made
comprehensive plans for the entertain
ment of soldiers and officers who are
to come here.
Has Equitable Climate.
Regarding the climate of Charlotte,
health authorities describe it as that
usually experienced in Piedmont Sec
tions, cold nights, mild winters and of
summer temperatures that are seldom
above 80 degrees. Winter temperatures
seldom go below 20 degrees early in
winter mornings and temperature of
20 degrees at noon on the coolest days
is so rare as to be suitable subject for
newspaper comment. The rainfall is so
distributed that there is no particularly
rainy season. Snow is unusual. The
humidity is very seldom oppressive.
Outdoor training throughout the winter
will be possible without particular in
convenience.
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