Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-03-29
The PURCHASE OF CAMPS
FOR ARMY IS AUTHORIZED
Department Decides to Have Twenty
Eight Permanent Sites for Train
ing-Many to Be Abandoned.

hington.-Decision of the war
! 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 a cost of ap-
proximately $110000,000 of which s43,.
100000 was spent on the four EN-.
barkation cantonments-Mills, N. Y;
Merritt, N. J., and Stuart and Hill.
Newport News.
approximately $280,O00,0O0 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 fol
special military purposes, together
with the cost of construction of each
include: Doniphan (Oklahoma), ma
tional guard, $2,706,000; Funston CKan
sas) field artillery, $10,500,000; Nor
moyle (Texas), motor transport corps
$I5S0,O00; Pike (Arkansas), national
army, $2,70O,0O0; Sill (Oklahoma)
field artillery; Travis (Texas), nation
al army, SS,20O,0OO. !
National army cantonments 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, ,7O0,0 ,000- |
100000. Fl
Cantonments the sites of which are |
leased and which have been ordered
abandoned and the cost of construc
tion of each include: Macarthur TEX
as), national guard, s4,00O,00O; Beau
regard (Loufsiana), national guard, |
$4,900,000; Logan (Texas), $3,30O,000.
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, $3,400,000.
Camp sites now leased and the dis
oe e.
sideration: Kenriek 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 andsthe
cost of construction on each include:
Post Field (Oklahoma), $2,263,000;
Kelly Field No. (Texas), S1,928,000.
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 tTexas), $1,358,000-
$170,-273; Ellington Field (Texas),
s2,32S, ,991-s1O2,4 400; Kelly Field No. 2
(Texas, $2.599, $346,6S6: Mather
Field California;, $75O,562- -s7S.673;
Park Field (Tennessee), 2,097,07S-
$SS,O1O.
Fields to be abandoned, with the
cost of each, include: John Wise Field
(Texas), $268,266.
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-
struction, include: Barron Field
(Texas), $1,264,8S0; 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)ss $1,112.SS5; Tallia-
ferro Field (Texas), s1,36S,416; Gerst-
ner Field (Louisianal