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
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