Show the department of the pac pacific 1 I C militarily considered utah has for the last fow few yearn year been n vory ten tossed ossed i hither and thither beta between con tho the b of the Depart departments menth of tho tha pacific and the mis 4 bourl in 1862 it belonged to and drew its military forces and supplies from the pacific I 1 i department subsequently in 1861 wo we think it was attached to the department of I 1 be missouri and its supplies lief camo came trailing i 1 over ovar the plains a distance of twelve hundred miles mile still some of the bureaus viz vi i the ray paymasters masters and commissary Commis aary of muster al JJ ways remained in tho the pacific jurisdiction I 1 djus j just A v where here U utah tali militarily now bolongy bolon gm we are unable to kay hay whether to the missouri I 1 tho the platte or the pacific department perhaps s somo e of our friends ds at camp douglas i know the last wo ue heard board of the subject deuced us tic to think that utah belonged to tho the eastern rather thin than to the western juris juristic dic tion and ana wo no have seen no announcement of tho the transfer of the district of utah to tho the 1 pacific department 1 in the sacramento baio of the ath ho howler weNer wo we find the following advertisement 11 seemingly bearing on tho the question and otherwise of interest to the people of tho the territory 1110 rOSAM orlias OTI act CHIET derant MIOT T oy OF nall F francisco kancir CO march 2 1867 1 scaled proposals are arc in limited cited by the i under indor ignon until 12 M march 30 for receive I 1 ing in tho the go warehouses in this i 1 city it military stores and transporting the same nine to the interior as follows to camp douglas utah tons more or leba 1 b to helena helean Mont montana montant amt tons more or less bidders will ill the inico per pound in gold coin bids ora ara also invited for the transportation from barap dourlas douglas to other posts in utah and from helenw to other posts in montana stating the price per pound for one hundred miles no bids will be received without bonds giving sufficient guarantee that tho the bidder will re accept capt the contract if awarded him 1 the le I contractors must be prepared pie pared to re rcy i cei 0 the stores by the Is ast 1st t of may blay this advertisement to bd paid for pro ata a by the contractors A r it IV I 1 bal col and dep Q M foill k that looks as though utah had again been i transferred to tho the pacific department or at least that it was intended to draw its ita gnp p 4 alico during this year from california the thundered th large amount of transportation required five I 1 i hundred undred tons equal to one million of pounds I 1 ds I 1 mainly it is presumed commissary supplies lies 4 would seem to aurie that there was to bo be a tery considerable increase of the military force in ghisi district the number of troops now at camp douglas is very limited baiely snow sufficient vo mc understand to perform garrison 5 duty and take chitre care of goi government propof prop property eity tv 7 the only other post in tho the Terri territory tor r we believe in Fort Bridger although gen babcock in his report speaks of another foit foi t union P I 1 the whereabouts of which the military nu au authorities as well as people generally are somewhere at a loss to fix the advertisement above quoted invites bids for transporting military stores from camp douglas to other post r in utah 1 whether such other posts aro are contemplated to be established establish od in the future we have no other means of knowing than what may be inferred from col birkmans Kirk mone mans proposals this apparent new change in tho the source whence the utah military are to draw their quartermaster and commissary supplies I 1 during thel the year 1867 may possibly alq be induced by the apprehension of indian difficulties biffi cul ties along the platte and between the rocky mountains and the missouri the indications aro are not slight that n general indian war will prevail to the eastward of us 1 as soon as the grass shall bo be sufficiently ad danced to feed for the indian ponies 4 and no may look out for raids along the iho line k of travel should such be the case and serious obstructions iu in our communications 4 ensue the provision about being made by colonel kirkman Ki for transporting supplies from tha west would turn out to be wise I 1 and prudent I 1 this large from r single customer L I 1 uncle sam affords interested in the colorado riter route fine i it is opportunity to exemplify its ita feasibility with but about I 1 three hundred and fifty miles of land car ariage tho the remainder of the route from san francisco to salt lake city bring being by sea I 1 j i lia ia the gulf of california and by tho the colorado ra dolther kier they could underbid the prairie and mountain dug outs if then tho the several colorado na navigation companies are at work in hi earnest they will be he heard ard front from when col kirkman opens open thas I 1 scaled proposals for freight to utah I 1 |