Show BARRACKS TO TOBE I BE ENLARGED EN I Army Appropriation Board Ap Apportions Apportions Apportions portions Funds 1 WESTERN JN IN LUCK rALF MILLION ALLOTTED FOR TOR NEW POST OST AT CHICKAMAUGA t WASHINGTON 17 July 21 A board of Vy V officers consisting of Major Gen Generals Generals orals Corbin and Young Brig Briga Brigadier diet dier General Ludington Lieutenant Colonel J 3 A Johnston and Major George e Buhlen was wag appointed several weeks ago ago by the secretary of war to take Into consideration the question of at provision to be b made for accommodations Hens and shelter for tor troops returned r urn d from Cuba C ba and the Philippine Islands and to consider generally the construe construction construction tion of new buildings at posts through throughout out the United States to accommodate increased garrisons to be he stationed thereat The board submitted Its final report to the secretary of war who wo has ap approved approved approved proved the recommendations submitted ed by it The amounts given are those estimated to tc complete the construction of various works and while the allot allotments allotments ments meats are made from the current ap appropriations a P it Is fa not expected that the full Jull amounts will be expended in all wi cases during the fiscal year The allotments are as a follows For the construction of a ner post for a regiment of cavalry at Chicka Chickamauga mauga Park Ga A new post for a battalion of Infantry at Mission Alaska A new post for a a regiment of ot infantry on the military reservation at Monte Monterey Monterey Monterey rey Cal Cat Three new posts each to accommodate accommodate date two companies of pf f coast t artillery at Fort Worden and Fort Casey Wash WashIngton Ington at the entrance to Puget Sound and Fort Rosecrans near San Diego Cal each Provisions for a regiment of Infantry at the Presidio of San Francisco 75 Completion of Fort McKinzie Wyo to accommodate one battalion of ot in infantry Infantry fantry Barracks quarters stables etc for two batteries of light artillery at Fort D A Russell Wyo Necessary repairs to be De made at Fott Fort Harrison Montana to make accommodations accommodations at that post for fora a battalion of infantry Douglas Not Forgotten Enlargement of Fort Douglas Utah to provide accommodations for head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters and two infantry To enlarge Fort Lawton Washington to accommodate headquarters and one battalion of ot infantry To enlarge Fort Wright Washing Washington ton to accommodate one battalion of infantry To enlarge Vancouver barracks Washington to accommodate one full regiment of infantry 1 two battal battalions battalions ions of ot artillery To reconstruct hippIe Whipple Barracks Arizona to provide accommodations at that post for one battalion of Infantry To continue construction cc n of barracks and quarters Qu at Fort Riley Kansas Ka s sand and Fort Leavenworth Kansas to pro provide P pr vide for increased garrisons at thos tho posts and the officers of the schools or of a instruction to be established there at atRI Riy RI y at Leavenworth 50 The board also took into consideration tion the construction of necessary buildings at many of the coast artillery posts on the Atlantic seaboard on the gulf and at the mouth of the th Columbia river and at some of the inland posts po t for cavalry and artillery artIller where addi additional additional additional buildings are are ie needed ne ded to accommodate the flie increased garrisons garrison It has been decided to proceed at once with the preparations of ot plans and specifications for the necessary ary buildings at the new posts and ani at the posts to be enlarged and to invite bids for their construction but it Is con contemplated contemplated to place only a part of the work at other places under contract at present to avoid the large congestion which would result by throwing too oo much work on the market at many of those these places at once The work that probably will receive first consideration will wIllbe be the new posts to be established at Chickamauga park Haines Mission Alaska Indian I dlan Terri Tern Territory Territory tory and the Presidio San Francisco |