p. 104 | Prepare War

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Feb 21, 1865

Prepare War.

"Prepare war, wake up the mighty men," says the Lord by the prophet. The following statistics will show that something has been done in obedience to that divine command.

THE MANUFACTURE OF ORDNANCE.

Since the commencement of the war, the three foundries at West Point, South Boston, and Pittsburg, Penn., have together manufactured for the Government:

Twelve-inch rifled cannon, 1. Eleven-inch, 11. Ten-inch, 10. Nine-inch, 72. Eight-inch, 67. Seven-inch, 1. Ten-pounders, 219. Twelve-pounders, 230. Seventeen-pounders, 24. Twenty-pounders, 158. Thirty-pounders, 141. Fifty-pounders, 36. Eighty-pounders, 19. One hundred-pounders, 5. One hundred and fifty-pounders, 9. Rifled siege guns, 20. Guns of small caliber, 28. Total number of cannon, 1046.

Of mortars and howitzers they have made—Thirteen-inch mortars, 54. Ten-inch mortars, 61. Eight-inch mortars, 26. Eight-inch howitzers, 10. Total, mortars and howitzers, 151.

They have also turned out the following number of shot and shell: Thirteen-inch shells, 6,000. Eleven-inch shells, 2,829. Ten-inch shells, 2,050. Nine-inch shells, 3,200. Shot and shell of smaller caliber, 151,727. Total number of shot and shell, 173,226.

ARMS PURCHASED BY THE UNITED STATES.

The Secretary of War has submitted to Congress a voluminous document containing a statement of all the purchases of, and contracts for arms, made by the Government since April 12, 1861, with the particulars of such purchases, and the prices paid.

It gives the dates, and names of parties purchased from, and contracted with. The recapitulation shows there were purchased, and contracted for the following muskets and rifles: Purchased, 236,156; contracted for, 1,903,800. Cash, $40,495,715. Carbines purchased, 14,380; contracted for, 72,440. Cash, $2,205,878. Pistols purchased, 19,422; contracted for, 75,500. Cash, $2,105,892. Sabres and swords purchased, 63,718; contracted for, 142,500. Cash, $1,337,770. Total, purchased, 333,677; contracted for, 2,197,240. Cash, $46,144,665.

ENORMOUS CASTING.

The Sheffield (England) papers give an account of the casting of an immense anvil block, at the works of J. M. Stanley & Co., in that city. The mould was dug out in the center of the work, and was 12 feet square at the base, and 11 feet 6 inches in depth. It took the molten metal from five furnaces, and was 12 hours in filling, and the casting was six weeks in cooling, so that it could be lifted from the mould by hydraulic power. Its weight was one hundred and sixty tons. The anvil is to be used in the gun manufactory of Firth & Sons, and will sustain the shock of blows from a twenty-five ton Nasmyth trip hammer. This firm will be celebrated for possessing the largest anvil in the world.