Item Description
Original Item. One-of-a-Kind. CCC Camp Castle Dale (G-27) was opened in 1935 and conducted many bridge operations during its tenure. This mess kit was crudely engraved & used by a man in the CCC at Castle Dale. The mess kit is engraved with Death Valley, Sakearrowhead, John Binko, Calif. On one side.
The other side of the mess kit is marked with several names and locations visited including Beaumont Colton, Clarence Thomas, Kansas City, San Bernardino, El Paso, Redlands, and Lieut. O.E. Everett, Co. 522. So these men definitely saw service with other companies. The mess kit is in rough condition and shows heavy period use. CCC materials are always difficult to come by and sought after by collectors. The mess kit itself is dated 1918, although the handle is heavily oxidized. The pull ring has also been replaced, certainly during the period.
Civilian Conservation Corps allowed young men between the ages of 18-22 to join. The average age nation-wide was 18.5, so they were called "The CCC Boys." These young men are working with a pneumatic drill on the San Rafael Swell. Dermis Jensen, a rancher and trapper from Emery, was a supervisor of the San Rafael Bridge Project with the CCCs Company 529. Young men had to wear their uniforms for activities at the camp. Hurst Thygerson, a member of Company 959, said, "We had to be clean and you had to be reasonably respectable to go to chow, but that was in the main camp" --not the spike camps. So while working on the Swell, they are often seen without shirts.
A great set, ready for further research and display.
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