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''Il_ .\l"4dH~7 3~ ~ . F~r the entire life ~f the c~) fr~m ~utust 1935 up t~ June 30, 1939, the concrete lining ;,bceJ t~t=,-ls up t~ 50,355 square y~,r(ls, Exc~v.ti~n toto.ls 73,258 cubic yo.rds. Pipe lines 1283 feet, Rip Ro.p 184,609 squnre yards, 322 water control structures were built, Seven buildings, consisting of a ware- house, two storage g~rages, a pipe plant building, a blacksmith shop, nn oil house, and the repair shop were c~nstructed, 317,889 trees were pl~nted on fnrms, Nearly 70,000 Qcres were covered by rodent control activities, 207,595 cubic yards of materials w~as excavnted in clearing canal channels, 2472 cubic yards. of rock were quarried an~ 350 cubic y~rds were pl~ced as henvy rip-rap in certain locations on the interst~te C~nal, Five miles of truck trails were improved by grading in an effort to ense the burdon on our trucks in the transport~ti~n of rip rap m~terials, A mile of bar \vire fence was built and 195 acres of obnoxi~us weeds eradicated. A topogrnpnical survey w~s made of a 40 acre tract, One bridge ~nd one rock dam were built. 1,002 feet of reinforced concrete pipe was manuf=,-ctureJ in sizes 15" to 36", >. Emergency work which included sto;';Jing various leaks in the interstate Canal also was accomplished ~t various times during this ,eriod or nearly four years, A power line into camp 1,7 miles in length was also built during the first ye~r of the camp's existence. In moving rip rap m.~terials during the \vinter of 1938 and 1939 it is interesting to not that the dum;) trucks alone for the periy: between December 15, 1939 to M~rch 15, 1939 covered 37,591 miles. This mileage wus not over gro.ded roads, but over molre country trails much of the time frozen an~ extremely bac, The average 10aG was two cubic y',-rds of gr~,vel, In s;:>ite jf the most careful handling, this sort of wor-k is very hard ::m m,tor "<Jui;:>ment. Submitted W. C. Reichenberg, Cam~ Su~erintendent