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Aaron, I.
Aldrich, D. Autler, Ayala, Jose Barnett, F. Bond, B. Breiding, Ray O. Bullock, T. Campbell Castro, Leo Cibula, Alvin M. Cross, R. DeLeon, R. Dewhirst, G. Downie, R., Dufresne, P. Farrow, J.J. Fickas, Kenneth Flack, W. Fowler, E. Fristoe, Harry Gentle, Maurice Gold, Philip Graney, Ed. Graney, W. Guillen, Manuel Hadley, Ralph Hutton, Bob Jiminez, J. Juno, R. Keller, R. Latimer, V. Lawrence, D.F. LeRoy, Warren S. Lestern, C. Lopez, L. Lopez, Ysidro Malle, H. McCullough, W. McDonald, A. McPartland, J. Mendoza, R. Miller, R., Morris, H.H. Roach, R. Roberts, Ernest A. Roberts, Lawrence J. Rodriquez, R. Rourke, Salazar, J. Sheeny, W. Sherman, Wilbur Sito, J. Smart, G. Staff, Henry Dr. Stobling, M. Stubbles, V. Suggs, Ed Thetford, E. Wheeler, J. Willer, F. |
In May, 1933, fifty
men were gathered together in San Francisco under the command of Captain
J.R. Cameron, CA-U.S.A., to form the nucleus of Company 1910. Aided by
several non-commissioned officers, Captain Cameron proceeded with his men
to Indian Creek, California, which was then and until about a year later
in the Redding District, and on May 25, 1933, construction of a camp was
begun.
Camp buildings had been almost completed on June 19 when the main
body arrived from Los Angeles to bring the company strength up to
the 206 mark. Under the superintendence of Mr. Ray O. Brieding, who
has remained with the company from the time of its inception to the
present day, projects were immediately begun.
The Happy Camp bridge, a 300-foot, all -steel suspension structure
across the Klamath was the first project completed; work on the construction
of two truck trails and the improvement of one road was carried on
at the same time.
Captain William Ryan, present Welfare Officer, took command in November
1933, remaining for more than a year. In this important first year
of camp building and job organization the new company was fortunate
in not being hampered by forest fires. The men bent all their energies
to pushing forward the roadwork. In the summer of 1934 three road
projects were simultaneously carried on from the main camp and two
spike camps. The company held the flag almost continually and was
runner-up for the rating of the finest amp of the Ninth Corp Area.
Thirty miles of road was put up into the Siskiyous before snows drove
the workers to lower levels, where they spent the winter gravelling
the completed roads and road-side clearings.
The favor of fortune that spared fire duty failed in another way,
for a meningitis case put the camp into a working quarantine for
almost the duration of the winter.
In January 1935, Captain Guy W. Saunders, Inf.Res. took command and
remained until September 1937. Road building was continued throughout
the summer. The company upheld its record of never letting a fire
get out of control or grow into dangerous size. But in March 1936,
a call from the city of Shasta sent the men 120 miles to tramp through
snow-filled forests against a serious fire. Two days fighting were
ended by a snowstorm that came up and smothered the blaze, against
which the fighters frozen tank wagons had made little headway.
On June 15, 1936, the Indian Creek location was given over to a spike
camp and the main cap was moved to a river-side, mountain-circled
site in Seiad Valley, where the abandoned barracks were reoccupied
by Company 1910 in a drenching downpour.
A project of building campgrounds and developing recreation areas
up and down the river was now begun. In the spring of 1937 machinery
was regained and work on the mountainous China Creek road was resumed,
bringing the total mileage of road construction close to 100. Most
of the roads have been built over uneven, fairly rocky mountain areas,
necessitating the removal of approximately 7,000 cubic yards of dirt
per mile.
Eight campgrounds, two ranger stations, and two guard stations have
been completed. The four lookout stations were constructed by spike
camps that perched on the mountain tops, transporting the timber
and cement for towers by mule pack trains over the trails that they
later made into roads.
The company pre-casts campground stoves and concrete cribbing for
the entire forest. It has put up fifty miles of telephone line and
built four steel bridges.
The camp athletic activities produced outstanding baseball teams
in the early years and a district champion basketball team in the
winter of 1935-36. The fighters of 1910 have made consistently excellent
showings in Medford boxing contests.
In 1936 a building to provide schoolrooms and house the company's
3,000 books, one of the district's finest libraries, was completed.
Numerous enrollees have been promoted to Forestry positions, including
the five bulldozer operators, one bridge foreman, two junior assistant
technicians, three semi-skilled laborers, and one junior foreman.
The present commanding officer is Captain Albin M. Cibula, CA-Res;
2nd Lieut. Warren S. LeRoy, CW-Res., is Camp Adjutant; Mr. Maurice
M. Gentle is Education Adviser; Dr. Henry Staff, Camp Surgeon.
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All Southern Oregon and Nothern California Camps from
1938 yearbook
Ninth
District Camps and locations in 1938 and description