Camp Upton (Classic Reprint): Described and Photographed: Described and Photographed (Classic Reprint)

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Carloads of supplies came to the spur of the tracks which had been extended into the camp, and motor-trucks were waiting to take them to every part of the military city. Every minute of the night and day carpenters were pounding, gangs were working on the roads, electricians were wiring the buildings. But on September 11, when the first draft men arrived, the camp was only thirty-eight per cent finished, and many weeks passed before the stupendous task was over. The total cost of construction was The contract called for over fourteen hundred buildings, thirty miles of roads, and five hundred miles of electric wiring. Thirty million board feet of Virginia and Louisiana lumber were necessary for the completion of the great city.

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