= So - os ! . err * ~. 6 ar” ve 7 > ‘. 7 —. - ~ _ = 7, =>” = a e. 4 #, = = | 7 ? . 7 al ” T 7 = | DO YOU KNOW ANYEHING ABOUT THE UTAH CUARTERMASTER DEROT? IF ANYGOOY STOPPED YOU ON THE STNEET, AND SAID, "DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ASCUT THE UTAH _ QUARTERMASBER DEPOT?" YoU WOULD SAY, “YES, QUITE A LOTe | WORK THERES" BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, THERE ARE MANY THINGS AT THE DEPOT THAT ARE A GREAT MYSTERYe THE TOTAL NUMOER OF » PERSONS EMPLOYED ON THE RESERVATION, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SUPPLIES, AND WHAT THOSE SUPPLIES ARE,=THESE, AND MANY OTHE FASCINATING SITS OF INFORMATION THAT WE WOULD ALL SE INTERESTED IN KNOWING MUST REMAIN A MILITARY SECRET, THE SOLE KNOWLECGE OF THE FEW MILITARY OFFICIALS WHC KNOW, UNTIL AFTER * “i ; . a THE WARe Me oaya HOWEVER, THERE APE MANY FACTS AGOUT DBRPOT WORK THAT WE MAY KNOW ASCUTe HUGE STOCKS OF ORDNANCE MOTOR TRANSPCRT SUPT LIES ATE STOREO IN THE WAREHOUSES, SHEDS, AND CFEN STORAGE SPACES ASSIGNED TO THAT SECTIONe ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING FUNCTIONS CF THE SECTION IS THE PREPARATION OF TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FCR OVERSEAS SHIPMENTS. GREAT PRECAUTIONS MUST SE TAKEN IN THIS WORKy AS THE EXACT DESTINATION OF THE SHIPMENT 1S NEVER KNOWN, AND EACH CRATE MUST BE PERPARED CLIMATE WHETHER TO STAND TROPICAL IN THE CPEN FOR AN OR ARCTIC, AND TO CASE OF A LCNG SEA VOYAGE, ANOTHER SHIP SPACE, STRUMENTS TO MENT THE VERY PREVENTION MIGHT WEIGHT MAY INP ORTANT HAVE GE OF POINT OAMAGE RUINED, CF THE TO SE TO QE CONSIDESED CUE TO ROUGH DETERMINATION CONTENTS UNLOADED AND SY INCEFINITE COWDAT THE OF TOTAL HAND, THE IN LENGTH A DOXING HANDLING THE WHERE STRENGTH WEIGHT THEREFORE OF TIME, CORROSIVE WHICH INFLUENCE PROGRAM oF OETERMINES MUST NOT OF 1S INTRICATE REQUIRED CONTAINERS TO FACE ANY TYPE THE PARTS THE EASE RE SALT CF OF CELICATE i) > OF IN@ ‘ RELATIVE HANOLINGe HEAVY sf IN CONSERVATION OF CONTAINER TOC AIR i, it 4 ¥ FOR EQUIP =) HANDLINGs THE QUESTION AS TO WHY THIS EQUIPMENT IS NOT PACKED FOR OVERSEAS SHIPMENT AT THE FACTORY 1S ANSWERED OY THE FACT THAT OVER 3000 MANUFACTURERS SUPPLY THEIR PRODUCTS TO THE NCTOR TPANSPORT SUPPLY SECTION ANO THESE INOIVIOUAL ITEMS MUST DE ASSEMOLED INTO THE PROPER LOTS FOR SHIPMENTS TO SUPPLY VEHICLES OR INSTALLATIONS, IT 1S SELOOM PCSSIJLE, EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF COMPLETED VEHICLES OR STANDASEIZEO LOTS OF VEHICLE PARTS, TO FORWARD SHIPMENTS OVER SEAS IN THE SAME QUANTITIES OF CONTAINERS AS THEY ANE RECEIVET AT THE DEPOT. | "fk THE VOLUME OF SUP"LIES HANDLED AT THE DEPOT NECESSITATED DURING THE PAST YEAR THE ESTAD@ LISHMENT CF AN ELAN ORATE TRANSPORTATION SECTION WHICH INCLUDED RAILFCAD YARDS, ENGINE SHIPS, SEVERAL LOCOMOTIVES, AND THE EMPLOYING OF APPROXIMATELY 150 PERSONS, ; . | THE TRANSPORTATION SECTION WAS FISST CROANIZED IN AUGUST, 1941, AT WHICH TIME IT WAS COMPOSED CF ONE CFFICER AND ONE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE. SINCE THEN IT HAS EXPANDED TO THE EXTENT THAT SEPARATE DEFAPTMENTS OCF DILLING, RECEIVING, ACCOMPLISHMENT, CLAIM, PERSONNEL, AND MAIL AND RECORDS HAVE SEEN SET UF WITHIN THE SECTICNe SESICES THE OFFICE FORCE, THE SECTION INCLUDES THE SUPERINTENCENT °F THE YARD, YARD MASTERS, AND SEVETAL TRAIN CREBS.s THE SECTION IS A SERVICE SECTION FOR ALL THE CIFFERENT SUPPLY SECTIONS WITHIN THE DESCT AND ALL MATTERS FERTAINING TC TRANSPORTATION OF SUP LIES IN AND OUT OF THE DEPCT ARE HANDLED J DIRECTLY THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATIONe FREIGHT CARS A FEW CHASED FOR rt 1S NOW MONTHS ITS CEING HANDLES AY THE SECTION®S AGC A LOCOMOTIVE REPAIR SHOP WAS EFFICIENT AND ADEQUATE OPERATIONe ALL SWITCHING, OWN TRAIN COMPLETED, SPOTTING, CREWS, ‘MODERN AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT 1S SEEING OF PURH ' ON DECEMGER 10, 1941, A SHIPMENT CONSISTING OF 72 CaRLoans cF EXPRESS, ANC 45 OF FREIGHT DEPARTED FROM THE DEPCT WITHIN A TWENTY=FCUR HOUR PERIOD, SINCE THAT TIME THE VOLUME OF SHIPMEKTS HAS DEEN STEADILY INCREASED oe 8 * a Br - 9 ‘,