Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-08

Associated Press. american Port, Western France, na 31-(Correspondence of the Sssociated us, Press. )-The colony oi ,orehmses. docks, and shops forming hs 10 hase stroage depot of the Am- rican armies here is bewlldering ill magnitude.
 Annroaching the base is like con- 10 into some great industrial city aeh as Manchester or Chicago. O.t the right rise fifteen giant chirn- evs puffing black smoke from a rmn of factories. A mammoth re- igerating plant, said to be one oi e largest in the world, looms up rainst the sky. To the left is the are of furnaces and forses where Innon and locomtives are being made ssembled and mounted. All about is movement of vast and intricate [ilway traffic and the hum of a CO., ssal industry. This base of Ameri- In army supplies is the growth of fast five months erected out of most nothing by the impelling ne- kssity of war. The Colonel at head uarters summed up some of the sentials of what had been accom- )ished:
 This army storage base represents investment of $50,000,000, for build gs and plant along and not for the st stocks or army supplies.
 lit covers an area four miles by mile wide-the area of a city-with great docking system and deep bter piers. It is laid out for the stroage of a llion tons of army supplies, but the pacity is elastic and may be in- eased to two million tons. A mill n tons is the capacity of 1000 can liners, or a ton for every man an army of million men.
 There are 250 miles of railway lcks interlocking the vast network warehouses and yards.
 There are 4,5OO,000 square feet of yered stroage, that is building with |Or space and roof, and 12,000,00O aare feet of open storage, in all 100000 square feet of army SUD- eS stored and stacked from ten to Y feet high like a range of low untains.
 The ocean pier under construction accommodate sivX to twelve ocean amships dfawing 30 feet of water th the dock facilities of nearby there will be an unloading ca cty of 15,000 to 10000 tons o1 ericans army supplies day. That two or three ships can be turned und every day.
 t one point a pier 2,60O feet long half mile wide is being built general merchandise and higr Pioslves, and just back of it is ans huge storage depot of am. nltlon and high explosives.
 n all there will be 1884 warehouses wnlch S4 are entirely of steel man. etared in the United States ant aere ready to be put together. Il .aken on an average four days. tc up one Of these mammoth build }; These buildings grow as if by sN' m a day, and by miles an( ss, Most of these buildings abou Ol mem ,are 400 feet long and 5( slae' Practically all of the worl Oeeh done in the last five months
 Built Big Dam.
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