Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-22
VAST RESERVE IN
 STORE FOR TANKS IN
 FRENCH WAREHOUSES
EVEN SHOULD NO ADDITIONAL FOOD OR CLOTHING BE SENT ACROSS SEAS FOR THREE
 MONTHS, ALL CREATURE COM FORTS OF OUR MEN SUPPLIED

TOURS, Central France, Sept. B. Correspondence of The Associated Press 1.-The American army in Flu rope could be fed and clothed and all it's creature comforts looked after for three months if not another pound of supplies was secured. This was the statement made here by officers of the army quartermaster's department which directs this mammoth work of supplies
 It gives an idea of the vast stock of reserve resources stored in the miles of warehouses stretching from the coast inland to the fighting line, and it is a comforting assurance too that this huge reserve will be kept up through the coming winter period -sO that the American soldiers warmth, as well as his food and clothing, will be fully looked after.
 It is huge undertaking to feed a million men even for a single day-a million men scattered to a thousand joints, in trenches, on battlefields and camps. and along 300 miles of front and for depth of 500 miles. And when are added housing and clothing. and the period is extended through the winter months of cold and frost, with the prospect that another million or two men may be headed this way be- fore long-with these elements one gets some idea of the magnitude of the supply problem for a million or more men.
 Here at the center of the system, where the receipts are regulated and the distribution made. there was an opportunity of learning some of the details of how the system operates.
 In the food branch alone it takes over 4,000,O09 pounds of food every lay to feed the army. This predi- sicus daily consumption of food en- braces a million pounds of flour baked into a million pounds of bread every day, S75,000 pounds of fresh beef, S75,- 200 pounds of potatoes, 100000 pounds of sugar and 125.OOO pounds of toma- toes. The pepper and salt for a single day is 42,50O pounds.
 Army coffee is roasted at the rate of 10000 pounds day, and it takes 20 900 pounds of solidified alcohol to cook this coffee through the month.
 The beef is the bulkiest product used each day, and occupies a daily space of 45,000 cubic feet, or about he dimensions of a business block, of solid meat. Flour comes next, requir- ing 25.OOO cubic feet of daily space, and notatoes about the same.
 Tha-o hA sr, items. But the list runs all through the many requirements of the oversea army rations. with vast quantities in each case. Here are some of the oth- CT daily items:
 Bacon 225,00O pounds. beans 75,000 -o~lds, rice 5O,000 pounds. onions 250,- 900 pounds, evaporated fruit 10000 pounds, jam 10000 pounds. milk 62,500 pounds. vinegar 10000 pounds. lard 40.e0O pounds. butter 31,000 pounds. sirup 10000 pounds.
 These being included in the over sea ration, every one of the million men is entitled to his full allowance and it must go forward to him wher ever he is. So that besides the vast daily stock there is the question of un- failing daily delivery, first by rail ways and camion trains and then to the individual soldier.
 Often on the field or in the trenches he is supplied from marmites or huge fhermos bottles carrying hot food for eight men, and often too the delivery in the trenches is by the Yukon pack used in Alaska and by the Hudson Bay voyageurs and Indians.
 Besides this four million pounds of food moving forward daily to the trocps, each man carries with him two days emergency rations. five pounds to the man. or an additional five mil lion pounds of food for an army of a million men. Of the emergency ra- tion, carried on the back, there is out standing every day two million pounds of corned beef and two million pounds of hardtack. 300OO0 poInds of sugar. 62,500 pounds of coffee, 10000 pounds of salt and 50O,OO0 pounds of solidified alcohol for heating and cooking while on the march.