The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-03-29
THE PURCHASE OF CAMPS
FOR ARMY IS AUTHORIZED
Department Decides to Have Twenty.
Eight Permanent Sites for Train
ine-Many to Be Abandoned.


department to proceed with the pur
chase of the sites of fifteen army
camps and thirteen balloon and flying
fields over the country was announced
this week by Acting Secretary Gro
well. Less than $15,000,000 will be
involved, Mr.. Crowell said, and it will
not be necessary to await action by
congress, as the department now has
the necessary funds.
Twenty-seven camps and fifteen
aviation fields will be abandoned.
Construction work on the twenty.
seven camps, according to war depart
ment figures, represents cost of ap.
proximately $11O,OOO,O00, of which $43,-
100000 was spent on the four en-
barkation cantonments-Mills N. Y;
Merritt, n j., and Stuart and Hill,
Newport News.
Approximately s28O,OOO,OOO has
been spent in construction work on the
fifteen cantonments to be bought and
the fifteen now owned, and it was
largely because of the sum involved
that the department decided to go
ahead with the purchase.
The cantonment sites now owned by
the government and to be retained for
special military purposes. together
with the cost of construction of each,
include: Doniphan (Oklahoma), ma
tionaI guard, $2,7o6,OOO; Funston (Kan-
sas) field artillery, $1O,5O0,OOO; Nor
moyle (Texas), motor transport corps,
$1,580,000; Pike (Arkansas), national
army, s2,7O0,OOO; Sill (Oklahoma),
field artillery; Travis (Texas), nation
al army, $S,2OO,O0O.
National army environments to be
purchased for military purposes, with
the costs of construction and the price
at which the sites will be bought, in
clude: Pike (Arkansas), $12,700,00O-
100000.
Cantonments the sites of which are
leased and which nave been ordered
abandoned and the cost of construc-
ton of each include: Macarthur TEX
as), national guard, $4,000,000; Beau
regard (Louisiana), national guard,
$4,900,0O0; Logan (Texas), $4,000, 900.
Cantonments the sites of which are
leased and which are to be abandoned
and the cost of construction of each
include: Bowie (Texas), national
guard, $3.4O0,OOO.
Camp sites now leased and the dis
position of which still is under con-
sideration: Kenrick (New Jersey,
chemical warfare, $6O1,622; Vail New
Jersey, signal corps.
Flying and balloon fields the sites
of which are owned by the government
and which are to be retained and the
cost of construction on each include:
Post Field (Oklahoma), $2,263,000;
Kelly Field No. / (Texas), $1,928,000.
Flying and balloon fields under op-
ton and to be purchased for military
purposes and the cost of construction
on each, together with the price at
which the land will be bought, include:
Brooks Field (Texas), $1.358,00O-
$170,-273; Ellington Field (Texas),
81, 1925, s91-$1O2,4 400; Kelly Field No. 2
(Texas, $3.50, 6S6-$346,6s6; Mather
Field California;, s750,562-s78,673;
Park Field (Tennessee), $2,097, 07s-
$8S,O1O.
Fields to be abandoned, with the
cost of each, include: John Wise Field
(Texas), $26S,266.
Fields the sites of which are leased
and which are to be retained for tenn
porary storage purposes and thereafter
to be abandoned, with the cost of con-
include: Barron Field
(Texas), $1,264,S8O; Call Field (Tex-
as), $1,172,209; Carruthers Field TEX
as), $1,114,311; Eberts Field (Arkan-
sas), S1,815,840; Love Field (Texas);
Rich Field (Texas), $1,112,3S5; Tallia-
ferro Field (Texas), $1,368,416; Gerst-
ner Field (Louisiana).