Major Reuben M. Pedderson has reached Camp Cody From Fort Riley, Kansas, to be sanitary inspector. Captain B. C. H. Harvey, once a professor of anatomy in the University of Chicago will be an assistant. An Iowa captain, Roy W. Smith, Second Infantry, will have four ambulance companies under his direction, when they arrive. Out of all the troops arriving here since Sunday there are only eight or ten sick or injured in the base hospital. Rains Tuesday and at night have made some mud in Camp Cody and the roads leading to it. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Wednesday, September 19, 1917
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Main Part of Camp Cody Completed, as Planned
Camp Cody, as originally planned, is completed, according to Major C. H. Miller, quartermaster constructor. By October 1 the base hospital group and the remount station will have been finished. A rifle range of 1000 acres is being surveyed, west of the reservation. Trenches will be dug in that locality, where bombing and all the new features of training will be practiced. Camp Cody is divided into four districts for fire protection. Major O. A. McGee is the fire marshal.- El Paso Herald Newspaper – Wednesday, September 19, 1917
