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"FRANKFORD ARSENAL. The estimates submitted last year for the transfer of the cartridge plant at this arsenal to the now vacant rolling-mill building are again renewed. The following remarks from the last annual report are quoted as showing the necessity for this: [blockquote:] The development of our modern war material has added so much to the importance of the work at this arsenal and to the demands upon its resources that the occupancy of more shoproom than the buildings now in use contain or afford, is rendered obligatory. A new building is not required, since one built originally for a rolling mill, but not equipped with machinery, is available and well suited for the purpose. The various operations in the manufacture of small-arm cartridges are at present of necessity conducted in four different detached buildings, not suited by reason of location and size for the most economical work on even the present output of cartridges. These buildings are, besides, overcrowded with recent additions of plant required for the manufacture of new model gun sights, fuses, and cartridge cases of large size, or fixed ammunition for mountain and field artillery. With the transfer of the principal plant to the now empty building, space will be afforded under one roof for convenient arrangement of all the successive operations, and facilities given for an expansion from the present maximum output of 36,000 cartridges per day to 250,000 to meet an emergency. There is urgent need for the appropriations required to carry out this rearrangement of the plant."

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