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Show HALF MILLION NEEDED TO REPAIR FT. DOUGLAS SALT LAKE Aug. 7 Five hundred thousand dollars will be necessary to put Fort Douglacf inlo first class condition, con-dition, according to a statement made yesteidny by Major General Humor Llggi tt, comim.u.nng genera of the woMlern e'epartment. This expenditure, it is claimed, would be necessary merely to reroof trjildin!-, and .Tould not include any extensions to lIh present post. He said that nrt imugias, v hen repaired) would po.--sibl accommodate a regiment regi-ment ot the old das but would not ac commodate a modern regiment |