Show WE copy the following from tho the salt lake tribune oi of tho the the ordering of the commissary and signal sergeants from fort duchesne has given rise again to tile the report that fort D Duchesne a is to bo be abandoned but several officers of fort douglas contradict this and say they know that the post is to bo be retained as a six company post with four troops of cavalry and two of infantry at the same time the officers were ridiculing the idea of tho the alleged scare about the i demoval of the troops they claim there is no real aie a post in the Ducho sno suo country that the indians are peaceable and given to farming and if the post was removed it u deprive many people of a chanes to make money out of tile the government noticeably in the line of transportation and the sale of supplies oh yes the indians are peaceable when they have to be As to their k farming a very sin small all fow few aro are farmers f armors thoro there being not over acres cultivated by the indians on both rosoria reservations thoro there is more actual necessity for the retention of troops at fort du chesno than there is at fort douglas it is impossible for tho the agents of tile the reservations to keep the indians whore where they belong unless there is troops close by to enforce their orders it is not because there is no necessity for a post among the utes that the army officers want the post abandoned but it is because it is isolated from any railroad and whon they aro are stationed at ft Ducho sno they are arc deprived of many of the pleasures of their brother officers on tile the railroads raili oads and in largo cities if the indians wore allotted their lands in severalty severally and the rest thrown open to white sott settlement loment ft Ducho Duclie sno stio would bo be as good a place as thoro there is in the west for an ail army officer to bo located as it would soon become tho the cont cent or 0 of f a largo and popa lous country where everything they desired could bo be obtained what money theldis made by tho the settlers sett lors of this county out of tile the post does not amount to much by tho the time it is distributed tri buted among thom them their forage 0 and other supplies that is bought of tho the farmers of tile tho settle settlements clients ilien ts cannot bo be bought any chiapor in the settlements that have railroads and cheap transportation tho the freight rates f aiom boin price to tho the post aro are so low that the freig freighters liters can make a living to any ono one that is familiar with tho the prices price i paid for produce and for freight the idea that there is any money made out olt of it is ridiculous it is ie protection from these whiskey loving indians that tho the settlers want and the indians will have whiskey and thoro there is aln al ays some renegade rone gado white man to gh gho 0 it to them the doneit settlor settler doil dont want to suffer for their deviltry in while hilo he is toiling to make a homo and paying taxes to support a that should protect him instead of leaving him to tile mercy of a lot of lawless red devils and a few unprincipled whites |