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Show IBIIS OF CITY REAPING BENEFITS Expenditures by Government Govern-ment for Soldiers at Post Certain to Increase. That a largo portion of the money which the people of Salt Lake and Utah may invest in the liberty loan bonds of tho United States government will return re-turn to them directly through the channels chan-nels of the army is indicated by the fact that since the arrival at Fort Douglas Doug-las of the Twentieth infantry the government gov-ernment has been spending an average of about $000 a day in Salt Lake tor food supplies alone for the soldiers at the fort. The government figures on 30 cents a day for rations for each soldier, or $300 a day for 1000 soldiers. At the fort there are about 2000 soldiers, making tho daily expense of foodstuffs alone amount to $b'0(). All of this is going to the merchants of Salt Lake. In addition' the officers purchase large quantities of extra supplies, winch adds to the general income from tho soldiers, and each soldier spends something of his own money, making the total revenue no small amount daily. When, the two new regiments are recruited re-cruited to full war strength and there are about 6'n)0 men at the post the government gov-ernment will he spending about $1800 a day in Salt Luke tor food supplies for the soldiers. In addition the government govern-ment will spend a large sum daily for food for the 4u0 prisoners of war "to be interned at the prison camp. Just what this will be cannot be estimated until the war department advises the prison camp quartermaster as to the per capita allowance for rations, but it will not be less than that allowed for a soldier and may possibly be a little more, it is said. In addition to the food supply the government is already spending " thousands thou-sands of dollars for lumber and materials mate-rials to construct the new brigade and prison camp cantonments, and is put i ting out from $t1 to $6 per day to some J 30ti construction men who are 'employed on the building work. Thus hundreds" of j men without employment are being I given work, money is being put into I their hands, and it finds its way from j them to the butcher, baker, grocer, dry goods man and many others. Here is the standard army allowance for 100 rations for one man, or one ration ra-tion for 10 men, in pemnds: Beef, S7.5; bacon, '22.5; flour, 112.5; baking powder. 1; neans.' 7..r; riep, 5; , potatoes, S7.5; onions. 2.; canned tomatoes, toma-toes, 8.173; prunes. 2.4: jam, 2.5.10; i evaporated apples. S; roasted coffee, ;7; sugar, .20; evaporated milk. 8.S535; i vinegar, .2o; salt, 4; picklee, .25; pepper, pep-per, 1; cinamon, ,?5; lard, 2; lard substitute, sub-stitute, 2: butter. 1.5625; oleomargarine. oleomar-garine. 1.5625; syrup, 1; flavoring ex- tract, S.75. |