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supply of pure water. So springs today are often the 



best water supply of auto, picnic and vacation camps. 



Several methods of making springs more usable, more 



attractive and more sanitary are commonly followed. 



stream of clear water less than fifty feet from the spring. 

 So it seems that the only way to protect the public is 

 to make the spring as foolproof as possible, which is 

 best accomplished by wholly housing the spring in 

 a covered and buried concrete container or catch- 

 ment basin, and so arranging the overflow that it 

 will fall through at least fifteen or sixteen inches from 

 pipe, lipped rock or other spout where it may be col- 

 lected for use by inserting a container under the fall. 



A SMALL BUT EFFICIENT COOKING FIRE-PLACE ON THE CAMP 

 GROUND, VERY EASY AND INEXPENSIVE TO CONSTRUCT 



The most common of these is to sink a barrel around the 

 spring from which reservoir, fed from the bottom, the 

 water is dipped. This method of utilizing springs is 

 better than dipping water out of a muddy brook but 

 the open cased spring is as liable to give the user 

 disease as is the stream. 



Another fault of the uncovered spring has been found 

 where tourists frequent camp grounds. The spring is 

 often used as a convenient wash tub. This sounds 

 ridiculous, but it has actually been known to happen 

 and that too at a point at which there was a running 



BIG, CENTRAL CAMP STOVE BUILT BY THE CITY OF PUEBLO FOR ITS MUNICIPAL CAMP, 

 BEING A SHELTER AND FIREPLACE COMBINED 



CLEANLINESS BEING NEXT TO GODLINESS, THIS PUBLIC 

 STATION ON THE CODY ROAD LEADING TO THE YELLOW- 

 STONE COUNTRY IS EQUIPPED FOR THE CONVENIENCE AND 

 COMFORT OF CAMP VISITORS, AND HAS AS WELL TWO FINE 

 SHOWER BATHS 



Probably one of the most highly developed camp con- 

 veniences that can be found in all the camps is found 

 among the mountains of the west. It is the public com- 

 fort station, within the Shoshone National Forest and 



on the Cody Road leading to 

 the Yellowstone country. In 

 this station, in addition to the 

 usual arrangements found in 

 such locations, are two shower 

 bath equipments. 



An ingenious plan arrange- 

 ment has placed a stove in one 

 end of this building and in- 

 stalled a large water front con- 

 nected with a thirty-gallon 

 range tank. A door from the 

 outside opens into this portion 

 of the small building, the en- 

 tire water heating device being 

 separate from the other two 

 compartments. Fuel is plenti- 

 ful here and a very little effort 

 put forth by the camp visitor 

 will give him the opportunity 

 of getting a hot or cold shower 

 bath. The degree of hotness 

 attained is governed by how 

 much wood the camper will 

 feed to the stove and as the 





