Show ROYALTY TO ViSIT US Earl and Countess of Shafts bury on Way to Zion WILL COME WITH GEN CORBIN All Will Be Guests of Sonator I and Mrs Kearns Gen Corbiu Comes to Inspect Fort Dougins and Decide Upon Plans for Its Improvement I I Very soon the Earl and Countess of Shaftsbury and Gen nnd Mrs Henry C Corbin of Washington D C will come to Salt Lake as guests of Senator and Mrs Thomas Kcarns The Earl and the General arc particular friends of the Senator and have cntertaincd him while abroad and In Washington ospectlvcly Shnftsbury has his set tin t-in Belfast Ireland and is a genial good natured man In spite of the American Idea of a high sounding title I WILL INSPECT THE FORT Gen Corblns visit will be made at the personal I invitation of Senator Kearns to Inspect Fort Douglas with a view toward recommending further im iiovemcnts there The money for the rebuilding of the post was appro dialed two years ago and there is half a million now available Part of this will be used up in the buildings now being erected and as soon as they are completed and others can be torn down nnd plans for the rest of the Improvements Improve-ments will be detailed MONEY IS TN SIGHT As it is now said Senator Kearns lust night the necessary money to raise the post to the rank of a regimental regi-mental post with perhaps two butteries of artillery has been appropriated The work Is already going on and Gen Corbin Is coming here to see how the rest of the money shall be spent In ill the Improvements will probably cost 750000 and I should be glad to see them aggregate 1200000 AN IMPORTANT POINT II went before the Military committee commit-tee and tried to show the advantages which would accrue from making this II a permanent and larger post The new roads will give us straight connections with the Pacific and this is the best post In the country for recuperating soldiers The army will be used mostly In the Philippines and this Is a conven lent place to bring them on returnIng return-Ing A FRIEND OF UTAH Gen Corbin Is a friend of Utah and 1 friend of this post and wants to see It enlarged 1 think that it will come about rJght away and I am sure it willNo No plans for further improvements have been made public and one result of the Generals visit to the post will be the preparations of plans for whatever what-ever he deems necessary |