The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
MEANS ENORMOUS SUM
WILL BE EXPENDED HERE
Military Men and Others En-,
Enthusiastically in Favor of
Proposition.

energy along well.diroeted lines.
The merchants OF Salt Lake City can
secure 100000 n year through supply
ing a brigade post with provisions.
The brick manufacturers, stone quar-
~ owners. lumbe. men, cement com
uAnies and building contractors can get
s2.500,000 for supplying the govern
ment with material and labor necessary
TO make Fort Douglas brigade post, e.
7. costs about one and one quarter
millions of dollars 20 build regimental
most. therefore an additional outlay OF
60 500. 600 would be needed TO raise
Fort Douglas TO brigade post. All oi
this jr7merse sum would be expended IN
Salt Lake and Utah for building mate
rial and labor.
The business men of Salt Lake City
can get a payroll of 100000 TO $4,000
monthly IL Fort Douglas is made brig
age post.
All of this money would come into the
city from the outside; none OF 1t would
he produced here; meaning that the
money that is earned in Salt Lake
would remain here and that the added
income would come from other aud ad-
ditioual sources, namely, from the gov
erumont at Washington.
The great payroll would be CON
tinuous. The post viii never be aban.
doucd. The income is not susceptible OF
interference by strikes or other disturb
ances of normal conditions. such as
may at any time threaten private IN
dusirial payrolls.
Military Men Want It.
The military men want Fort Doug
las made a brigade post and there is
10 valid reason why IL should not be
come one.
There is no post in the United States
that commands the key to the strate-
pical situation ms does Fort Douglas.
These things are facts. They can be
verified by any person who takes tho
trouble To 90 to Fort Douglas and in
vcstigate: the officers at the post will
be pleased to afford him every oppor-
tunity for satisfying his own mind
about the benefit that will accrue to
Salt Lake if Fort Douglas becomes an
enlarged post,
when II is taken into account that
these things can be brought about with
ou, the expenditure of money or any
other consideration save that OF united
effort on the part of Salt Lake 3 busi-
ness men and citizens il becomes appar-
cnt that that effort should be put forth
and that with a will and without delay +;
the wonder OF it is that so vast an
opportunity has so long been over
looked
At the noxt meeting Of the board
OF governors of the Commercial club the
proposition will be made that a special
committee bc named TO take up the
matter OF bringing Fort Douglas up to
the brigade class. Already some pre-
liminary work has been done by the
Commercial club, but the promise now
is that every endcavor viii be made
% fH rI n.
tagc.
Now Regimcntal Post,
Fort Douglas is now a reginental
post. There are quartered there ap-
proximately 1000 men. Tho monthly
uayroll Of these men is at least 50, 1000,
practically every cent of which is spent
~ Salt Lake. II Fort Douglas were
a brigade post the payroll would be at
ioast three times as large. Instead OF
having one regiment Uf infantry Fort
Douglas would have 4 regiment of in
fantry. regiment of artillery, regi-
meut Of cavalry; instead Of one band
there would be three; instead Of com
Iuandant of the rank Of colonel there
msnd, with his staff; there would be
enlarged hospital and other depart
mcnts.
By recent order Of the war depart.
ment. Fort Douglas commi ssary officers
arc permitted To purchase provisions
iur the post in Salt Lake. Heretofore
these supplies have been brought from
~. Louis, Kansas City. Denver and
Sau Francisco As soon as the local
merchants realize the fact that Fort
Douglas offers market of large oppor-
.tunity. they will get all Of the trade.
For the regiment that is now stationed
H. I,
the monthly subsistence account is
$1,000. perhaps more. This is exclusive
of coal, material for repairs and the
like. The item Of repairs for buildings
alone amounts 10 $4,000 a year or
thercabouts, and II would be three
times that sum were there three rcgi.
ments instead OF one.
The improvements at Fort Douglas
as a regimental post have about
reached their limit.
improvements Made.
During the three years the Fifteenth
infantry has been stationed ~ Fort
DOuglns, Captain Thomas r. Harkor
of the squartcrmaSter' department
backed by the commanding officer. ha.
succeeded IN inducing the war depart
ment to cNpcnd sl50.OOO or thereabouts
~ the post. This SUN has gono for the
construction OF new barracks for the
Ysn. the laying of cement sidewalks
the replacing cf coal oil lamps with au
electric lighting system, the cons;rue
tlou OF conmissary and ordnance build
ings. and at this time there is being
Installed steam heating plant 10 re
place the stoves in the officers quar-
tcrs. The old barracks are being re-
modelled for officers quarters, vet
when the limit ~ the present series OF
improvements shall have been reached
there Will still remain much 70 be lie
sired. In view of the fact tha. no re
pairs 20 speak OF had been made a
Fort Douglas for forty wears. IA.
present improvements present a crat
ifylng contrast. One cf the needs OF
tho post now. among other things. is :
ncw chapel. The present building i,
antiquatod and occupies an unfavora bl,
location. being situated far from IN,
men s quarters
The chief need OF the post rus, now
however. u modern sewer system
When Captain Harker came first tier,
vas no sewer system at all. BY mucl