392 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENTS TO ARMY POSTS AND CAMPS. 



Eighteen engineers were detailed by the bureau to prepare plans 

 and superintend the construction of roads in the 16 National Army 

 cantonments and one National Guard mobilization camp, located as 

 follows : 



Camp Deveiis Ayer, Mass. 



Camp Upton Yaphank, L. I. 



Camp Dix Wrightstown, N. J. 



Camp Meade Admiral, Md. 



Camp Lee Petersburg, Va. 



Camp Jackson Columbia, S. C. 



Camp Gordon Chamblee, Ga. 



Camp Sherman Chillicotlie, Ohio. 



Camp Taylor Louisville, Ky. 



Camp Custer Battle Creek, Mich. 



Camp Grant : Rockford, 111. 



Camp Pike Little Rock, Ark. 



Camp Dodge Des ]\Ioines, Iowa. 



Camp Funston Fort Riley, Kans. 



Camp Travis San Antonio, Tex. 



Camp Lewis American Lake, Wash. 



Camp McClellan Anniston, Ala. 



The assignment of these men occurred in July, 1917, and the period 

 of their assignments varied from three months to a year or more. 

 The total construction planned and supervised by these engineers 

 aggregated several hundred miles and included practically all types 

 of construction, from sand-clay to first-class bituminous surfaces and 

 concrete roads. 



In addition to this work other activities in road construction not 

 heretofore separately mentioned are as follows: 



Roads were planned and their construction supervised for the 

 Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., and for the Bureau of Ordnance at 

 the EdgeAvood Arsenal, Gunpowder, Md., and outside of canton- 

 ments, usually from the cantonment to a city in the vicinity at the 

 following places: Alexandria, Va., to Camp Humphreys; Alexan- 

 dria, La., to Camp Beauregard; Little Rock, Ark., to Camp Pike; 

 Columbia, S. C, to Camp Jackson; Spartanburg, S. C, to Camp 

 Wadsworth; Greenville, S. C, to Camp Sevier; Petersburg, Va., to 

 Camp Lee; Anniston, Ala., to Camp McClellan. 



Several of the above projects were carried out in cooperation be- 

 tween the Federal Government and the State highway departments 

 under the Federal aid road act of 1916. 



ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENTS TO SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR OTHER FEDERAL 



BRANCHES. 



One engineer was loaned to the Unit-ed States Housing Corpora- 

 tion as consulting engineer on roads and streets necessary in con- 

 nection with housing developments. This assignment was made in 

 July, 1918, and the engineer gave his entire time to the work until 

 shortly after hostilities ceased. 



One highway engineer w^as detailed to assist the Emergency Fleet 

 Corporation in planning roads and streets in connection with ship- 

 yard developments. He gave his entire time to this work from 

 March 5, 1918, until after the ceasing of hostilities. 



Complete and detailed highways maps were made, utilizing as 

 far as practicable topographic sheets of the United States Geological 



