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Show MEW WAREHOUSES ' PLAWD AT FORT Will Be Constructed to Care for Proposed Supply Depot. TO BUY GOODS HERE Staff of Inspectors to Be Stationed at Local Post, Advices Say. bvtabiUhmem at Fort Douglas or a Bubo.ua i lernjjnsler supply tfapot, through which nil subsistence and other supplies for i in- local fort are to bo purchased, will entail the construction-of new warehouses ware-houses anU the permanent location here .f Inspectors to pass, upon the supplies bought, it Is teamed. On account of the huge quantities of materials, especially foodstuffs, that will have to be purchased and the necessity for buying them In wholesale vjantities at frbquent Intervals, storage houses will be one of the first essentials In connection with the new depot. .1 U8t how maiiv a nil how large the warehouses will l.ave to he are details th.it remain to be worked out later when the war department determine what ca-, paelty the subdepot here is to be arfid ih' extent of the field oi lis operations. Expenditures to Increase. , At the present time the cost of subsist- i ence supplies for Kort Douglas, as purchased pur-chased through the quartermaster depot I at Omaha, runs from $2B,0QO to $30,000 a month. As the hospital and other, institutions in-stitutions at the post grow this monthly expenditure for supplies will more than double. II is the policy of the war department to purchase all supplies possible in large nin ni it tee because of the benefits In reduced re-duced prides thereby obtained. The same plan will he followed in purchasing supplies sup-plies for the local posi through tfie sub- 1 depol a, id to handler .such quantities it wifl be necessary to construct warehorses In which the, supplies may be stored for j use as needed. The quart craaster depot at OmJUha is i already in the market in Utah for a large quantity of oanned fruits and vegetables. vege-tables. Large orders have been purchased pur-chased and the Manufacturers' association of I 'tali has heon endeavoring to have the depot at Omaha make arrangements to ha ve that portion of these supplies designed for local use left here rather than be shipped hack 'o Omaha and then hgHln shipped hero for consumption. Hdw-Aever, Hdw-Aever, because there is no subdepot here h nil I ecausc of lack of the necessary storage facilities, the depot at Omaha has advised the association that it will he necessary to send all the canned goods from here fo Omaha fcr the present.. End to Double Shipments. Location of the subdepot at Kort Douglas Doug-las will eliminate the necessity for this double shipment and will save the government gov-ernment the cost of freight two ways, it is pointed out. This will make a material difference in the price of the material to the government. -In other words it means "money saved."' Secretary A. C. Roes of the Utah Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association has furnished tne pest quartermaster at Kort Douglas with lists of concerns in Salt Lake and throughout the state which are qualified to furnish materials and supplies for the subdepot here and a list of the various supplies which can be furnished in quantities quan-tities needed. |