Things About Camp Cody And Deming The “Folks Back Home” Want To Know – Part 2 of 4

The camp, with its great base hospital and remount station, adjoins the city on the northwest and occupies, with its rifle ranges and other fields of military activity, approximately 10,000 acres. It is one of the very few great military camp in the United States where the men may drill practically every day in the year, and it is a source of great satisfaction to the ever anxious “folks back home” that Camp Cody is right up in the front row of everything that is worth while in army camps. Inspectors from the surgeon general’s office at Washington give us a fine “bill of health.” It is interesting to note in this connection that the war department many years ago established at Fort Bayard, almost In sight of Camp Cody, (the hills may be plainly seen 40 miles to the northwest), one of the finest army sanitariums in the world for the treatment of pulmonary diseases, and that sick U. S. soldiers are sent here from all quarters of the globe, a bunch being very recently received from the front line trenches in France.

The average temperature is not high by reason of cool nights. Deming is a modern little city of 7000 to 8000 100 per cent Americans that always exceeds its quota in war obligations. National headquarters of the war camp community service recently published an interesting pamphlet citing New York city as a very large community; Chillicothe, Ohio, as a community of moderate size, and Deming, New Mexico, as a small community where community co-operation with large army camps were given as examples. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917

Things About Camp Cody And Deming The “Folks Back Home” Want To Know – Part 1 of 4

This famous military camp of Uncle Sam’s National army adjoins the city of Deming, in the heart of the Mimbres valley, where farming is done by means of irrigation, the water being supplied by powerful pumps that run continuously if necessary and are driven by gas engines or electricity and deliver from 300 to 2000 gallons of water per minute, which means from a half million to nearly three million gallons per day of 24 hours.

The valley, or rather plain, comprises three to four hundred thousand acres, completely surrounded by towering mountains in which are stored nearly every kind of mineral and semi-precious stone. Extensive mining operations are conducted the year round.

The ancient peoples who inhabited this vast plain in prehistoric ages left many evidences of their civilization, the boys in khaki never failing to bring in from their interesting hikes ancient pieces of pottery and other interesting relics that have been burled for centuries. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico – 1917

Soldiers at Camp Cody Take $60,000 of Big Loan – Deming, New Mexico

Lieutenant Ira N. Sprecher, head of the war risk insurance section and third Liberty loan officer for the 34th division, reported late, Saturday night, that he had received applications for bonds of that loan to the amount of $60,000 and that he felt certain of getting $100,000. These subscriptions are absolutely voluntary on the part of the soldiers, because they, took nearly $2,000,000 of the second. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – April 29, 1917

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico – 1917

MAJOR MILLER, WHO DIRECTED CAMP CODY BUILDING, LEAVES

Major Charles H. Miller, constructing quartermaster, under whose direction and supervision this camp was built, accompanied by his wife, are en route to Washington, where he will report for further duty to the quartermaster general. A dinner was given the major here by the government and civilian contractors. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – November 9, 1917

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico – 1917