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 :
- For enclosing the arsenal square – – – $5,761 00
- For completing stone wall and iron railing on south side of armory canal – 5,723 00
- For enclosing new stock house – – – 1,324 00
- For further grading and terracing the hill-side – 1,859 00
- For building stone wall and grading the grounds in on Shenandoah street – 422 00
- For new bridge and sluice over armory canal at the musket factory – – 441 00
- For filling ditch and completing six coal bins, under the B. & Ohio Railroad – 223 00
- For continuing the flag pavement in front of workshops – – – – 560 00
- 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
- For repairs of Potomac dam – – – – 7,000 00
- For forebay for cast-iron water-wheel at bell shop – 1,000 00
- For water wheel, pen-stock and pit-gearing for new finishing shop at the rifle factory – – 2,050 00
- For purchase and fabrication of new machines for the musket and rifle factory – – – – 10,000 00
Total – – – $38,892 00
