Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1875-10-27 | Page 2 | Local News

The cost of tue war department - for the six years onding with 18GI aggregated $1 24,330,004. 57, while that of the last six years, including that ending June 30, 1S75, amounted to $258,585,535.93, an increase under Grant of $134 255,411.36. Thus it appears that tlie war department is to-chty costing the country nearly twenty-two and a half million more every year than it did heretofore in a atate of peace.