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Show GEN. CHAFFEE COMING WEST Likely to Visit in This City. Popular Army Officer May Be Guest of Senator Kearns in August. Outlook for Improvements at Fort Douglas During the Present Year. 1 A LETTER has been received by Senator Sen-ator Kearns from Gen. Chaffee, Chief of Staff, War department, i stating that if he is successful in carrying out his proposed trip to the Northwest, in accordance with the plan he now has In view, he will stop at Salt Lake City for a day some time during the early part of next August, to visit Fort Douglas and consider further fur-ther allotment for the improvement of the fort and its present repair. Senator Sena-tor Kearns expects Gen. Chaffee to be his guest while in this city. The General Gen-eral states that "constmction at other points, particularly the coast artillery stations, calls for a considerable part of the appropriation for the next year, and the- demand Is urgent." Senator Kearns has also received a letter from Acting Adjt-Gen. Hall upon the same subject, which says: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 29th ult. to th Secretary of War, in which, referring to a recent conversation conversa-tion with him rotative to the rebuilding rebuild-ing of Fort Douglas, Utah, you remark that the post Is In sad need of rehabilitation, reha-bilitation, that a large sum should bo expended thereon, and that at least two Held batteries be stationed there in addition to a regiment of Infantry. "Replying thereto, the Chief of Staff desires me to say that the garrlBon proposed pro-posed at present for Fort Douglas will consist of headquarters and eight companies com-panies of Infantry, that allotments have been made for the past two years to reconstruct this post, and that it is understood to be the ultimate Intention for Its enlargement to accommodate one regiment of Infantry" To carry out the work of reconstruction this 3'ear an allotment of ?74,500 has been recommendedfor rec-ommendedfor one guardhouse, $22,-000; $22,-000; one double barracks, f52,500, a total of 74,500. "Last year there was allotted to this post one bachelor officers' quarters, eight sets, brick. $35,000; one wagon-shed, wagon-shed, frame, $27t"0, a total of $37,760. "In view of the heavy dcmandB upon the appropriation, it is thought that no more money can be allotted Fort Douglas Doug-las this year, but that the work will go on In subsequent years until development devel-opment into a regimental post, as j planned, as completed. "The Chief of Staff desires me o add that the two batteries of field artillery artil-lery are only temporarily stationed at Fort Douglas, and that In the general scheme of assignment the post ls not a permanent station for field artillery." |
