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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

WHICH LEADS?

The following account of the Krupp Gun Works we find in the Boston Herald of July 6. Can there be found an establishment devoted to the arts of peace, laid out on so gigantic a scale as this? It is a significant comment on the political state of the world, that such establishments are called into being by the demands of war.

KRUPP'S GUN WORKS.

The Krupp Gun Works of Germany are of immense dimensions. One of the establishments employs 8500 workmen, and contains 298 boilers and engines, which, combined, have 11,000 horse power, and operate 77 trip-hammers, varying in weight from 200 to 100,000 pounds each. Since 1877, 15,000 cannon have been turned out; 300 are made on an average every month. Daily 18,000 tons of coal and coke are consumed, and 21,000 gas jets are in use. A railroad track, with 24 locomotives and 700 trucks, is in operation within the works, and between them and the nearest railway station. The establishment has 24 telegraph stations, and eight fire engines for protection against conflagration. In the mines connected with these works there are 5300 workmen. Iron ore the company gets from its own lands in the north of Spain to the extent of 200,000 tons annually, which five steamers that it owns convey to the factories. The company has built 3278 tenements for its employees, in which 16,200 persons live. The grain used in the bakeries which supply these people with bread is bought by agents of the company in large quantities, chiefly in Odessa, the Russian grain port. Four common schools and an industrial school for girls and women provide the elementary instruction needed by this city of factory hands.