Show IN BEHA BEHALF F OF FORT DOUGLAS If the tha Commercial l club climb the tho Real Es Estate tate the Merchants ts Man ors anti other othor wish to d do a great graat pUblic ser sar vic will make a concerted move to secure see ro the fulfIllment of the prom promIse promIse Ise often olton made to r o Fort Doug Douglas Douglas las and have haj an army post o of the im importance Its 10 location nUon deserves As noted In est Herald the impresSion is becoming a certainty that the proposed 1 improvements will ho be abandoned unless something is clone at once to convince the war wai department and ana congress PH he plan for n a big po pout t shoUld be carrio out factors actors b vo worl ed against the hu flu pro am ono one of Is poUt io teal l It is more than a coincidence D A Ruseell Cheyenne has J tt e expanded at th tho Fort Douglas It happens that t of Wyoming is chairman of the on affairs and us as such juts has great ht in Ute the con control trot of army plans anti expenditures Not only that but lie is an senator and practicallY controls mill mili military tary legislation To him the war tie 1 looks for liberal tiona to him time the officer who ho seek pro promotion motion have 1131 to look l tor l favor and in his hands lbs lles the power to command support RId and for or his own pet projects from others who ho have pets of their own It also happens that F Port rt RusS Russell ll b bits prospered and ana boon be enlarged and been favored with big appropriations although Fort Log Logan n in Colorado is near by and has much more favorable location and although Fort Douglas is isa isa a much better botter location geographically has hag a better and surround surroundings surroundIngs ings and commands all au immeasurably larger tO territory by nature of its position Uon tion strategically As a business prop proposItion Port Fort would be a better subject for enlargement in the tho territory on the east cast slope of the than is Russell anti and Fort Douglas from u a mull mU standpoint is untitled to expansion much more mor than Russ Russell lJ Incidentally th this s in army affairs illustrates the tho tage of representatives es in ou n gross gresS both both in the Senate and house who command no large larg influence Corn Com pared with Warrens power In Wash Tash ington the whole Utah d legation Is ia a minus quantity and in military mat matt t rs this one of post im pr a cigar store IndIan would be as as Smoot Sutherland and Howell Hawell aU all rolled rollo into one II Fort Douglas is to bo b converted Into an important post th the commercial organization ot of this city and state will to exert all the influence they h y can c and do it at once onee |