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P. 661: “The foundations for the ordnance building, forty by eighty feet, have been laid on the ledge, requiring an excavation of 15 feet in depth ; the walls have been erected
p. 662: and are ready for the roof. This storehouse for ordnance purposes and armory, so necessary for the proper arrangement and preservation of this description of property, is spacious, well constructed, and of the best materials. It will be in condition to receive stores this season. To prepare the site for the shell house, for loaded shells, it was found necessary to remove about 1,000 cubic yards of ledge. This has been done, the foundations laid, and the walls erected. The building is of stone and brick, iron doors and shutters, vaulted roof, and fire-proof. The arched covering of bricks, the stone facia and cornice, and roof to be laid, to complete the structure. The temporary wooden skids in the gun park have all been removed, and three hundred lineal feet of skids of dressed stone substituted, on foundations of the same material, extending below the action of frost, and properly pointed and grouted with cement. The park is being graded and gravelled, the old stone skids repaired or relaid, and this part of the yard placed in thorough and permanent condition for the reception of such property as the department may assign to it. Upon these objects there has been expended during the fiscal year the sum of $ 19,106.61. Plans and estimates are submitted for the next fiscal year, for a gun carriage, shed, and storehouse, a boiler room, boiler, and machinery, and for repairs of all kinds, amounting to $46,600. These objects are all highly necessary to meet the demands of the service upon this particular branch, and to keep the existing improvements in a proper state of preservation.”
Source
The executive documents, printed by order of the senate of the United States, first session, thirty-fifth congress and special session of 1858. 1857-1858. 16 Volumes. Washington.
P. 661: “The foundations for the ordnance building, forty by eighty feet, have been laid on the ledge, requiring an excavation of 15 feet in depth ; the walls have been erected
p. 662: and are ready for the roof. This storehouse for ordnance purposes and armory, so necessary for the proper arrangement and preservation of this description of property, is spacious, well constructed, and of the best materials. It will be in condition to receive stores this season. To prepare the site for the shell house, for loaded shells, it was found necessary to remove about 1,000 cubic yards of ledge. This has been done, the foundations laid, and the walls erected. The building is of stone and brick, iron doors and shutters, vaulted roof, and fire-proof. The arched covering of bricks, the stone facia and cornice, and roof to be laid, to complete the structure. The temporary wooden skids in the gun park have all been removed, and three hundred lineal feet of skids of dressed stone substituted, on foundations of the same material, extending below the action of frost, and properly pointed and grouted with cement. The park is being graded and gravelled, the old stone skids repaired or relaid, and this part of the yard placed in thorough and permanent condition for the reception of such property as the department may assign to it. Upon these objects there has been expended during the fiscal year the sum of $ 19,106.61. Plans and estimates are submitted for the next fiscal year, for a gun carriage, shed, and storehouse, a boiler room, boiler, and machinery, and for repairs of all kinds, amounting to $46,600. These objects are all highly necessary to meet the demands of the service upon this particular branch, and to keep the existing improvements in a proper state of preservation.”
Source
The executive documents, printed by order of the senate of the United States, first session, thirty-fifth congress and special session of 1858. 1857-1858. 16 Volumes. Washington.
