Less heavily built and fortified than the military stockade to the north, the quartermaster’s stockade protected the Quartermaster Department’s supplies, draft animals, workshops, and civilian employees. Most supplies brought to the fort, whether hauled by wagons along the Bozeman Trail or obtained by contractors using local resources, passed into the quartermaster’s corral. As in the military stockade, buildings in this area were often improved or replaced over time as needs and available materials and labor allowed. By April 1867, the Quartermaster Department employed 52 civilians, including mail carriers, guides, carpenters, wagon masters, coal miners, stock herders, and others. Maintaining Fort Phil Kearny was expensive: laborers earned $35-$45 a month, three times the pay of an army enlisted man, while guides earned $5 to $10 a day, nearly as much as an army colonel. The area included offices, mess halls, quarters, a civilian dwelling, an eatery, stables, an ice house, a blockhouse, corrals, a water detail, a saw mill, a wagon park, a warehouse, weight scales, a wagon shop, and a blacksmith shop.