Show NEGLECTED FORT DOUGLAS Several years ago an appropriation was made by congress of if we wc remember correctly for improvements at Fort Douglas The news of it filled many exultant dispatches but our delegation in con congress congress con I gress never thinking that the appropriation would i ibe be diverted let the matter go b by only to find that by some sleight of hand Senator Warren of Wyoming had diverted of that appropriation to Fort Port Russell at Cheyenne The rhe rem result t was a barrack or two was built at Fort Fort Douglas a superb military station at Cheyenne and up to this date the officers at Fort Douglas have to live livo in tho the old buildings that General General General Gen Gen- eral Connor built back in the sixties They arc are obsolete obsolete lete they arc are uncomfortable they no more fill the present need than would one of the old adobe houses with seven doors that the Saints built in Salt Lake Lakein in the early carly fifties serve e for the purposes purposes purposes' for which the New house structures have ha been built The wrong was all aU the greater because Cheyenne is on the eastern slope of the mountains It is only a twenty hour run from Omaha If soldiers were needed needed needed need need- ed an anywhere where on the eastern slope of the they could be at once supplied from the cast east whereas Fort Douglas is the fort of this great central basin which covers an area three times as great as the United Kingdom or the German empire In addition to the want of comfortable quarters at Fort Douglas there is not an electric light up there The sanitary matters need immediate attention The fort is made to look as though it was the intention of the government to abandon it although considering considering considering consider consider- ing its situation considering its site considering the climate over it it should be the most important post between Omaha and the Pacific We V c think if Senators Smoot and Sutherland would lay the history of the matter before the thc president president dent and congress and ask for to begin with needed work at the fort it might be obtained Wo We V 0 do donot donot donot not know how they feel regarding it In the old days the tile men who elected d Mr 11 Smoot to the senate and who elected Mr 1 Sutherland to the senate would have I given half their fortunes fortun s to have had that fort wiped out Now that they have control of the state it seems to us that the they ought to get over their old prejudices now that the forces at the fort can never ne be called on on-in on in this interior except on the requisition of the Mormon governor governor for for no other governor will ever be elected here at least in this coming generation generation- it would seem seeni seem as though all h hands would be glad to see Fort Douglas made worthy of the government worthy of this state and appropriate for the uses for w which ieh the fort ought to be devoted We commend this to tho the attention of our senators and our representative in Washington and we tell them that if they were as good workers as earnest workers in the interest of their state as Senator Warren Warren Warren War War- ren has shown himself to be they would either get the appropriation or b by a trick steal somo some other states state's appropriation |