Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — Water Supply at Camp Shelby is Adequate. [ARTICLE]

Water Supply at Camp Shelby is Adequate.

Hattiesburg, Miss., Aug. 29.—Unless the government orders additional changes in Camp Shelby, it will be ready for occupancy in three weeks. This statement is made on the authority of men in whose judgment the government completely relies. There will be an abundance of artesian water and the sanitation of the camp will be completed. This statement is made on the same authority. There is no sewer system at the camp now, and the question of putting in a complete system is under consideration at Washington, but experts have said that because of the soil, which is sandy and mixed with some clay, it is doubtful whether the sewer system will be needed and that all dangerous matter can be destroyed with incinerators.

In the minds of the army experts there is no doubt that when the camp is completed there will be plenty of water. The water is here, geological investigations show that. At present about 1,800 soldiers, including the official staff of the regular army, and 300 animals, are being supplied from a spring, a pump forcing the water into the main. Two large artesian wells have been sunk in the camp, the water coming through gravel and sand within twenty feet of the surface. The experts say that as soon as this twenty feet of earth is bored through the water will flow is large quantity. The Indiana troops here are composed of Company F, First Indiana, from Gary, with three officers and 130 men;' Company B, Second Indiana, from Jeffersonville, three officers and 141 men; Company F, Third Indiana, from South Bend, three officers and 130 men; Company B, of the Fouth Indiana, from Rushville, three officers and 145 men; Troop A, separate cavalry squadron, Evansville, three officers and 46 men; Indiana Ambulance Company No. 2, from Marion. The Indiana field hospital, of Indianapolis, with five officers and 69 men, and Ambulance Company No. 1, of Indianapolis, with’five officers and 130 men, arrived at Hattiesburg Monday night. Because of a wreck on the railroad between the camp and the city the company did not reach Camp Shelby until Tuesday. They slept on the trains Monday night.