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For facility of reference, those places which may be considered beyond the reach of a European enemy are printed in ordinary letters; those some distance up rivers, but not perhaps altogether inac- cessible, in italics; points actually on or near the coast and estuaries, in small capitals. Some of the small inland arsenals are omitted.
Arsenals and Depôts.
1st class, arsenals of construction, which embrace also repairs and deposit. 2nd class, repairs and deposit.
3rd class, deposit only.
The list is recent, but the classification is old, and may have altered.
The arsenals are taken, as far as possible, in order along the coast.
Detroit, on River Rouge, 12 miles from Detroit, 2nd class.
Rock Island, far up Mississippi, nearly due west of Chicago, 1st class. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1st class.
Kennebec Arsenal, Augusta, Maine, 2nd class.
WATERTOWN, 5 miles in rear of Boston, 2nd class.
Watervlict, near Albany, New York, 1st class.
NEW YORK.
Frankford, 6 miles above Philadelphia, 2nd class.
PIKESVILLE, 4 miles from Baltimore, 3rd class.
Washington, 1st class.
FORT MONROE, 1st class.
FAYETTEVILLE, Cape Fear, 1st class.
CHARLESTON, 3rd class.
Augusta, Georgia, 2nd class.
Appalchicola, at Chattahoolchie, just below junction of that and Flint Rivers, 2nd class. Mount Vernon, on the Mobile River, 2nd class.
Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, 2nd class.
BENICIA, San Francisco, 2nd class.
Vancouver, Columbia River, 2nd class.
Appendix No. 9.
UNITED STATES
Gun Foundries.
The United States have no Government foundry, the chief private establishments are :--
SOUTH BOSTON Foundry.
West Point Foundry, on the Hudson.
Government factories :--
Small-arms Factories.
Harpers Ferry, at junction of Potomac and Shenandoah.
Springfield, Massachussets, on the Connecticut River, 24 miles north of Hartford.
A grand centre of manufacture of small-arms by private firms is PROVIDENCE, where also many marine and other engines are made. NEWHAVEN has also a great small-arms trade.
Saint Louis, depôt.
Gunpowder-mills and Depôts.
PICCATINNY, Dover, New Jersey, depôt.
Mills (private) principal:---
WILMINGTON, Delaware Inlet.
NEWHAVEN, Connecticut.
Miscellaneous.
The following private firms had part of the "Monitor" contracts :---
Roach and Son, Chester.
Cramp, Philadelphia.
Hazlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington.
All anchors and cables are made at Washington. The principal rope-walk is at Boston.
The engineer and torpedo depôt is at Willet's Point, New York.
With regard to the above establishments, it may be said, the productive power of the United States is now so developed, that their two greatest arsenals of all being in the centre of the country (Rock Island and Pittsburg), the capture or destruction of most or all of the above-mentioned places could not be expected to cause more than a comparatively temporary embarrassment and loss; and therefore they are not worthy of more than a relative amount of sacrifice on the assailant's part.
General Remarks.
In the above paper, as far as time and space permitted, in dealing with a very extensive subject, an endeavour has been made to represent the military and naval position of the United States in the presence of a European adversary, their general resources have been indicated, and their rapidly- extending communications sketched.
Except in the few remarks on the iron trade, and a few words to be said on coal, no attempt has been made to describe in detail even those productions and manufactures which have a close connec- tion with military and naval efficiency. The new census, especially the "Occupations" analysis, will by-and-bye give the best guide to all this.
The number of sailors, fishermen, raftsmen, shipwrights has been given from the old census, because
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