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Shawnee No, I FirstShawnee No. 1, near Friendship, was the first of the camps sirable trees, now existing to be established in A new comfort station is 25 the Portsmouth area. It began to per cent completed at the ranger function on May 21, 1933. station for the convenience of theUs enrolles have built 30 miles scores of folk who pick that spot, of truck trails as its part of the with its stately pines, for their forest road network. Nearly 3,000 Sunday picnic suppers, acres of forest stand improve- “The public is welcome to visit ment cutting has been completed, the camp,'* Mr, Smith said, “andi j .... ducted through the forest by theSE JST2? STMC I vlt;Tntl.Two Others FunctionTwo other CCC camps in this area are under different supervision. Camp Roosevelt, opposite the entrance to the Roosevelt game preserve on route 125, is under supervision of the state conservation department. CampMore than 200,000 feet of rough lumber has been sawed and piled i nical personnelWebster, near South Web-solicit the aid of the camp tech- ster, is operated by the U. S. for-viewing thein storage, about half of which J forest and the projects completedhas been uaed in construction of by the camp.buildings, concrete forms and} Adams Begun In 1933 bridges.A garage with grease pit and aest service.Two other camps—Camp Scioto on Pond run and Camp Shawnee No. 2 on Pond creek—have been abandoned within recentAlso in November, 1933, Camp, .. . . ,. . ,a a - '___,, months, their companies disband-Adams was established on a small I. . . _fiat along Upper Churn creek in j * '” movin* ° °th'r Adams county, with 3,000 acres j rocamies.completely-equipped machineshop were built by enrolle labor.Magazines for storing high ex-, . a A , , . iw uinuruplosives and a log cabm to house1 ,the facilitating personnel areamong other buildings put up by j camPi whoS7work was to'be'fod the enrolles1 housing, Redingof timbered hills assigned to itsThe U. S. army also plays an important part In the work at theIt wa, called . forest culture c“?5 Iu «f““™ *re _in/h*r_®lt;‘the enrolles, utilizing forest pro-1 lhe tetitrmenl of the woods as aducts. iMclBli More than 100 bushels of pinecones were harvested for seedduring the falls of 1933 and 1935.The seed was extracted and sentdiscipline and much of theirtowhole u differentiated from an Ierosion camp, which supervises ■ .... , ...****** made available to tne state aivi-soil control and better farm plan- n( conM.rvationTwenly-eight fore.! fire, have j d'I*r'm'nt or U' S' 'orrtry Krv‘ a stale forest nursery to be b(en foughl b). Cimp A(Jams en. ice.’B§95y1planted and provide seedlings for subsequent planting either on state or private land.Planting Donerolles with the area burned be-jing kept to an average of 10 acres. Twenty-three miles of ! truck trails have been completed.From 35 to 40 acres of planta- One hundred and ten thousand lion has been set out by the trees have been set on deforested camp. Studies are being made of j areas and plans are under w ay the relation of grow’th to thinning for even a larger program this and other problems of forest; year.NEW UNIFORMS CHOSENFOR GROTTO BANDSMENMusicians To Meet Monday NightTo Be Measuredstand improvement.Work is nearing completion on i berx of the white company thatMembers of Yezdigerd grottoband will be measured Monday“Many local youths were mem* | night for new uniforms. The band Jwill meet in the Grotto club-the construction of an impounding dam to flood a basin covering about four acres.assisted the colored company in rooms, Second and Market streets.the work, and did good work to ward the camp’s goal,”Camp Bear Creek was estab- James Wells, forest superintend-lished in November. 1933, at the ent at the camp.head of the left fork of LittleThe band committee—H. M said Mackey, Gardner Sheets and J. V. Beaver—has returned from Cincinnati, where 30 uniforms were ordered,Kenneth Markins accompanied»*GLEE CLUB WILL SINGGrow More Forest-MindedBear crerk. The job of jmrellre ,Tht ,e ot ,hjs v,cini(y ,« ,-^-,-7-there has been to build roads, Jr mnr(1 forest Jl . assisted in se-nlant tree* build a dam erect becom”'*■ more and ,TJ|ie 10 esl lection of materials. The uniformspiam irees, ouua a aam, eieu mincjelt;| Let us hope the sons of|wil] h bJ . .. ..buildings for the forest ranger. A ,„VIiniv ^ininine!. *0,a 0,aKI* oldfieht forest fires and imnrove the A,lams c0“nl *nd . a J 1 f Ibuttons and double-breastediigni roresi nres ana improve me countlt# Wlll not face barren and atsforest timber. ; eroded hills, but will have timMuch has been accomphshed ^ ,() and , lac5 hunttoward th„ go, , said M. C| c„mp aordon, on r0ute 125. 14Smith, state forestry dms,on «u- mil„ o( Ph. waspervisor at the camp, despite the . rw 14 iqL* assiene«l Sciotoville Girls Plan Spring Pro-fact the camp was abandoned j forest at* the head- j gram For May 8waters of Turkey creek for pro- Arrangements are being made tection and development. by the Girls’ Glee club of Scioto-1, 8w Acres Improved One hundred miles of boundary ville High school for a spring pro-More than 1,000 acres of forest lines along the state-owned land gram May 8. The school band, have been improved by the Camp have been run by the Gordon en- [ under the direction of Henri Bear Creek enrolles. Dead, fire- rolles and maps of the 3,000 acres Schnabl, also will play, scarred, overmature, badly de jn their territory have been Songs by the glee club will fowned trees, and others that drawn, showing all corners and form the first part of the programOne of the forest's large new dams has heen built at the camp.temporarily during the summerof 1934adjacent land owners. and the second part will consist ?Telephone line* have been con- of a one-act operetta, Margie j strutted connecting fire towers. Goes Modern”, in which all glee IFive thousand man-days were re- camps and fire wardens so crews, club members will take part.:... 5L-
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Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sun, Apr 19, 1936
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