The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-05

created there instead couple of log structures are now under construction As we are looking them over somebody suggests something about food Guide Mcdonald says to hop in and we'll just about make the Montana Creek CCC camp when the gong sounds. Back to the Loop road without delay, swing out toward the rifle range, then keep to the left and just as 30 husky young fellows filing into the mess hall we roll into the camp entrance
 What is there about food that attracts man. especially after spending few hours out in the open?
 This is what attracted us Swiss steak. fried pota- toes tomatoes creamed lima beans, pickles celery, iam and bread, the kind like mother used to make before the bakery became popular real honest-to- goodness home bread that melted in your mouth and all the butter you wanted to put it. And then pie lots of coffee and raisin pie-all cooked to queens taste No longer do long for home on the range. Give eco camp at meal time and we'll be perfectly happy
 The cost? Not what you would believe at all SSS Supervisor Mcdonald has figures to prove that it is just twenty-three cents per meal per man.
 Now for a swing around camp under the direction of Camp Foreman William Fromhoz who has been handling eco in this area for four years with never hitch They work for Fromhoz go down to the road" We questioned one of the young chaps about how things go along.
 "Oh, we never have any trouble,' he said Last winter when we had seventy here the most that happened was a couple of little arguments which didn't amount to anything. Fights? No, those little tits couldn't qualify any kind of fight card"
 The camp itself long established is familiar to most of the residents of this community The four portable houses are snug, clean and heated with oil stoves. The camp has it's own light plant and then there the washing laundry and shower rooms central recreation hall; virtually everything to make lito there.
 Up from camp the road is completed along Mon tana Creek about two miles to where McGnnis Creek joins it. Here the road will be dead-ended for the present. Ultimately it may extend around to connect with the Herbert River road The major part of the Montana Creek working on this road now and will have it completed before many moons have passed. It's tough job with the frost in the ground but powder and strong young muscle does the trick.
 Swinging back over to the rifle range one finds still another considered project trail up along the Glacier now for some distance built last year. Now it is planned to complete it around McGnns Mountain, distance of about 14 miles to Herbert Glacier This should be a great attraction to stop tourists well fine recreation point for local people
 On the Nugget Creek side of Mendenha Glacier, work is to be started immediately fact it started yesterday changing the course of the Nugget Creek trail to conform with the ever-changing Glacier. Instead of going up the rocks to the observation point the ice has moved back far that it is possible, and desirable to construct trail down around the foot of the rocks and right into the mouth of the glacial caverns. The tourist well as the local visitor can walk right up nice sand and gravel walk then and find out what makes the glacier blue Officials advise against going into the ice caves however No one knows when they'll decide to fall in It is probable that eventually the road will be extended also some 1500 feet closer to the ice.
 Back in town dropped into the CCC station and Forest Service warehouse grounds Willoughby Avenue Here is located the shop where Carl Hagerup those attractive Forest Service signs you see hanging at various places in the Forest and a little paint he does neat job. Any one who sees the workmanship necessary to turn them out wouldn't use them for target practice and no one else should Here too, is the vast amount of equip ment including complete clothing supplies for the CCC enrollees all kinds of tools needed in the work they do; dishes, stoves and everything else can imagine necessary to operating a complete camp Incidentally fire fighting apparatus is ready for dis patch to the field a moments notice, in various units, depending the size and location of the fire
 It's big business this Civilian Conservation Corps It is big business in Juneau and throughout Alaska The improvements being accomplished in the Glacier Highway area are criterion of what is going in other places in the Territory. The road extensions and recreation facilities being afforded this munity are little short of surprising they would be long time in the future without the CCC.
 Things going out the road. It is worth anyone's time to look them and them opportunity affords