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gtigreenYeah,trip o/amV,hfederal c. c. C. CAMPSTwo Forrest boys, Victor Kip_g and Harry Watts, wrote these letters to home folks. 4Lakeview, Oregon, back Camp Ingram, HlinoiAugust 2, 1933Dear Wenger.Well, well, the boys are sure giving you a break (if you’ll excuse all ' lour information we’re about to spill, or upset). On the level, we’re hav-!^leln ing a fine time, we have plenty of fine ;e I scenery here, and plenty of good cool 11 mornings along with it too. We are It I located right smack in the mountains,21 miles from the nearest town, whichdon’tfilled stuff,filledgo soWridlennrteP. S.toes Hear a day a chuis Lakeview. We have a mountain just 9 miles from camp which is 7,925 feet up, when I say up 1 mean up, too, boy! if you only could climb up that thing once you’d appreciate the “up’’ part of it. The first mile on the way down we lost 1,000 feet in alti- FontPIMrn itude. We had some fun sliding in the n -snow on July 9th, believe it or not. s, . We hav® some fairly good sized it «pine twigs here too, some about 200 t-jfeet high, I guess. When you cut one af of those babies down it makes a good gejbump or “sumpthin’.” We see deerof it-rs-re-er nd•o-lal heve teedIf t-chjlow to work for, his name is Grover ng Luckie, rather odd name, isn’t it. He ed is a regular army man. he Well, I think I’ll shut up for jx- awhile. Harry will probably shoot the ndjbull with you for a page or so. Be ice careful, and don’t catch all the fish ten out that- in Illinois.bandWabsMitwo i a nu they1,50(weekevery once in a while, and there are supposed to be bears around here someplace, although I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting one face toface yet, which is only half of it. By the way, there are plenty of trout here too in some of the streams.Boy! we got a high class dump here, have hot showers, mess hall, and everything. Harry and I are working in the Co. Supply, and Harry is Sup-plf Sergeant and I am supposed to be Co. mechanic, although most of my work is in wood. We have a fine fel-’arevisitMivisit]M ingt weel C.nuMSunchis fMson lt;dayEllaMrelatMi
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Forrest Corn Belt News
Forrest, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 17, 1933
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