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Show FORT DOUGLASTO Salt Lake Instead of Omi- ' ha Will Sell Goods for Soldiers. A aubejuarfermaster aupply depot I to be established at Ft Douglas, according ac-cording to Information received from Washington. Upon the increase of population at the post the purchasss in Halt Lake may reach ISO.Oflo, It la j said. . ' Prior to ths departure of th Twentieth Twen-tieth Infantry from the poet certain supplies were purchased hare, but an order was laaued requiring that all upplie be brought from Omaha. The Manufacturers' Association nf Utah took the matter up and found that It had cost the government I rente per capita more to feed th men than at any other post In th country, due to freight ratea between here and Omaha. |