Appropriations Recommended For Harpers Ferry Armory

Harper’s Ferry Appropriations.

The following sums have been recommended by the Secretary of War, for repairs and improvements of the National Armory at Harper’s Ferry :

1. For enclosing the arsenal square – – – $5,761 00
2. For completing stone wall and iron railing on south side of armory canal – 5,723 00
3. For enclosing new stock house – – – 1,324 00
4. For further grading and terracing the hill-side – 1,859 00
5. For building stone wall and grading the grounds in on Shenandoah street – 422 00
6. For new bridge and sluice over armory canal at the musket factory – – 441 00
7. For filling ditch and completing six coal bins, under the B. & Ohio Railroad – 223 00
8. For continuing the flag pavement in front of workshops – – – – 560 00
9. For breakwater wall to protect lock-gates at the head of the armory canal, and stone wall on the southwest and north side, above and below the railroad bridge, where it crosses the canal – – 2,529 00
10. For repairs of Potomac dam – – – – 7,000 00
11. For forebay for cast-iron water-wheel at bell shop – 1,000 00
12. For water wheel, pen-stock and pit-gearing for new finishing shop at the rifle factory – – 2,050 00
13. For purchase and fabrication of new machines for the musket and rifle factory – – – – 10,000 00

Total – – – $38,892 00