Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-01
WAR SECRE TARY
CUTS EXPENSES;
CLOSES DEP0Ts
Fifty-Eight Cantonments
and Various Other Sta
lions Eliminated From
Lists of Military Posts

Washington, Sept. Softly
eight army environments. flying
fields and depots have been elm
mated from the lists of military
posts administered by the war de-
partment. Troops have been moved
from them to permanent stations
and the properties soon will be
either sold at public auctions or
turned over under revocable Ii
censes to states which have applied
for them for use of the national
guard.
Closing of the various stations,
the war department announced to-
day, was decided upon as neces-
sary step in the reorganization of
the army and the reduction of its
enlisted strength to $4,000 enlisted
men. 1t also was explained that, in
many instances, the buildings and
temporary quarters which were oc-
cupied by troops during the war
have deteriorated to a point where
their maintenance is now prohib-
tive from standpoint of economy.
Cantonments to be leased to
states for use Of the national guard
Include Camp Pike, Ark; Camp
Lee, Va; Camp Jackson, S. CT;
Camp Grant, Ill; Camp Dodge,
Iowa; Camp Funston, Kans.;
Camps Kearney, Calf, and Sher-
man, Ohio, already have been
turned over to the veterans bu-
reau.
Forts Abandoned.
Tho nj thn 6nTAa nj ~ q n
also calls for the abandonment of
Forts Dade and De Soto, Fla;
Camp Shannon, N. NJ, and Camp
Hidalgo, Tex. Fort Apache. Ar,z.,
will be transferred to the interior
department.
Quartermaster depots to be aban-
doned include Atlanta, Ga, Seattle,
Wash. Except one covered pier),
Omaha, Neb., New Orleans Except
for reserve supplies), Port Newark,
N. j.; Norfolk, Va. (7,200 railway
(. cars sold to Poland to be removed
in IL months); Boston, Mass;
Pittsburgh, Pa, and the Hawthorne
race track, Illinois.
Ordnance plants to be sold are
the Erie. Pa, Howitzer plant, the
Rochester IN. " gun plant and
the Chicago Storage depot, while
the following reserve ammunition
depots will be abandoned and 49,
600 tons of material salvaged; Nor
gan, N. j.; Seven Pines, Va; Ana
toll, N. j.; Tullytown, Pa; Toledo,
Ohio; Woodbury., N. j.; Penniman,
Va; Sparta, Wis. (to be used by
agricultural department in prepa-
ration of explosives for highway
works for probably six months),
Middletown, Pa. transferred to air
seryice).
Air Service Plants.
Air service plants at Chapman
Field, Miami, Fla. Love Field, Dali
las. Tex; Americas Depot, Ga;
Long Island Depot, N. Y; Rich
mond Depot, Va, and the Curtis
Elmwood plant, N. Y, will be sold.
The following air fields will be re-
tanned with care taking detach-
ments only: Fairfield, Tenn; Carl
strom Field, Fla: Dorr Field, Fla;
Souther Field, Ga; Ross Field,
Calf; Ellington Field, Tex, and
Montgomery Depot, Ala.
OF the great war time canton
nents those to be retained under
caretakers as corps area training
camps with only non-perishable
supplies on hand are Mcclellan,
Ala; Devens, Mass; Dix, N. j.;
Meade, Md; Lewis. Wash; Knox,
KY, and Custer, Mich.
at is not contemplated to ex-
pend funds on the buildings lat the
above named cantonments) re-
tanned but to make use of them as
long as possible in order to save
tentage," the departments state
ment said.