The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-19
CoAsT DEFENsRs.

remaining ones are now being built
by the engineer department with hired
labor.
COAST DEFENsEs.
The following statement shows the
lows: Expenditures authorized by the
act of June l6, 1884, (iEplacements
with guns and mortars that should be
in positfouJ:
Portland, Me.-Two Finch, five 10
inch guns and twelve 12-inch nortars;
increase since March. 1898, TWO 12-inch.
three 10-inch guns and twelve Finch
nortars.
Portsmouth-Two S-ineh guns; in
crease, two inch guns.
Boston-Seven 1l-inoh and two rapid
fire guns and sixteen Pinch sllortars;
increase, three 10-inch and two rapid
fire guns.
Narragansett Bay-Four 10-fnch
guns and sixteen 12-inch mortars in
crease, four 10-inch guns and sixteen
12-incn mortars.
Eastern entrance to Long Island
Sound-Two Pinch guns; all increase.
New York-Six S-inch, sixteen 10
inch, two Finch, six rapfd-fire suns
and thirty-two Pinch mortars; in
crease, one 9-inch, thirteen 10inch and
Icuf ffeef)l0-1Te guns.
Philadeiphia-Three 10-inch and three
12-inch guns; all increase.
Baltinore-Three S-iach, one Pinch,
three rapid-fiTe guns and eight Finch
mortars; all increase.
Observation-Disclosures 1o-inch and two
S-inch guns; increase, one 10-inch and
two S-inch guns.
Hampton Roads-Th-ee 10-inch guns
and sixteen 12-inch mortars; increase,
sixteen 12-incn mortars.
Wilmington-Two S-inch guns; all in
crease.
CharIeston-Two 1G-inch guns and six
teen Pinch mortars: all increase.
Savannah-Four S-inch guns. all in
crease.
Key west-Two s1s-inch, four 10-inch
guns and sixteen Finch mortars; all
increase.
Pensacola-Three 1o-inch guns; all
increase.
Mobile-Two S-inch guns; all in
crease.
New Orleans-Two 1O-inch guns; all
increase.
Galveston-Two 1O-inch, one rapid
San Diego-Two 1o-ineh guns; all in
crease.
San Francisco-Three 1O-inch. nine
Pinch, two rapid-fire guns and six
teen 10-incl1 mortars: increase, three
10-inch, seven Pinch and two rapid
fire guns.
Columbia River-Two S-inch, three
10-inch and two rapid-flre guns; all in
crease.
Puget Sound-Four 10-inch and two
12-iacn guns: all increase.
BEING PROCURED.
Under the appropriation of June 6,
1896, there are now being procured, or
will be procured, the following car
riages:
At the government factory five g.
inch, five 1e-inch and five 12-inch, all
disappearing, and eight 12-inch non
disappearing; in separate shops, six
teen 8-inch and thirty 10-inch disap-
pearing carriages and sixty-seven r.
inch mortar carriages.
BY the time a new appropriation can
become available all the details OF
every type of carriage will have been
fully determined. With sufficient
money, therefore, the limit to future
rapfdity of progress in coast defense
is combined annual capacity of public
and private plants to supply ordnance
material Upon this fact are based
the departments estimates for the en-
SufliS yedf. IcSC eSIliiidlcS VIII plO-
vide the following.
Guns-One 16-incn gun (firlishing and
assembling forgings already provided,
twenty-one sets t21s-inch gun forgings,
twenty-one sets 10-inch gun forgings,
one hundred and forty-four all steel
12-inch nortars complete, fifty-fve s.
FOUNDER rapid-fire gins with mounts
and 200 rounds per gun, and twenty
5-snch rapid-tire guns with mounts and
leo rounds per gun
Carria geS-Twenty-one 12-inch dis
appearing carriages, twenty-one 10
inch disappearing carriages. eight g.
inch disappearing carriages, and one
hundred and thirty-eight 12-inch nor
tar carriages.
For engineering work-TWenty L.
inch ffnplaceTHents, disappearing, Eire-
teen f0-inch inplacements. disappear
ing: twelve S-inch irlplaceTnents, dis
appearing; one hundred and thirteen
rapid-ffre implements and one hum
dred and forty-four Pinch mortar iIll-
placements. Thus if the estimates OF
the war department for permanent de-
lenses should receive the favorable
consideration of congress. there VIII
be by June, 1928, the following com
plcted IN the system of defense.
Impfacements-Tn mine f:.-fncn,
eishty-flvc t0-fnc!l, rhirty-seven Sinh,
one hundred and twenty-nine rapid-
fire. ard two hundred and eishty-four
Pinch nlortars.
Guns-One 1s-ineh. sixty 12-inc;s,
ninety-fve 10-inch. seventy-fve S-inch
Cor more il the Bethlehem company
exceeds minimum delivery. one hun
dral ard tweHty-rine rapid-fire guns.
with mounts and amrunition. and two
hundred and ninety Pinch nortars.
Ct7rr-isl oes-I'0rf weight Pinch nine
ty-foilr 10-inch, forty-two 3-inch and
two hundred and r'aety Pinch NOR
tars.