Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-06
PROPOSED ARMOR FACTORY
Bids Asked for in Circular by the secre.
tary Of the Navy.
Land, Buildings and Machinery ms n
Whole Plant to BE Includ-
ed by Bidders.

Secretary LoEg today issued a circular in
vitins proposals to be opened at the Navy
Department. January %, 1898, for the con-
struction of a government armor factory,
including the land. buildings and machi-
merry as whole plant. Proposals will also
be received at the same time for furnish
ing separately the land or buildings or the
whole or any part of the machinery en-
braced in the proposed plant.
What 1t VIII include.
TIE proposed arfnor factory includes the
following: 40 to 100 acres of land with
good foundations, Gopd drainage, good
water supply. and facilities for railroad
connections, and erected thereon ten one
story steel buildings with sloping roofs and
brick filling between columns as follows:
one, 4"4 feet long by 153 feet VIDE, with
casting pit ~ to IL feet wide and 324 feet
long; one. %!3 feet long by 131 to Ill feet
wide, with foundations for heavy forge
press; one, 505 feet long by 13O feet wide
with foundations fer heavy bending press;
one. $50 feet long by 131 feet wide, with
foundations for heavy machine tools; one,
5o3 feet long by l3l feet wide, with special
balasted foor;f one, 241 feet long by 36
feet wide, with foundations for boilers and
pits for stack connections; one, 100 feet
long ~ 96 feet wide, with foundations for
electric generators; one. 127 feet long by
% feet wide, with special floor for loco
motives; and four brick structures in
cluding one office building 90 feet long by
4? feet wide; two laboratories. each ~ feet
square, CO injected by Il passage; and two
latrines, each 100 feet long by - feet wide
-Four Wellrnan fitting basic open-hearth
furnaces, with regenerators, gas producers
and hydraulic appliances complete; two
small melting cupOlaS. fitted with blowers,
elevators, ladies and other foundry appli-
ances; two core ovens; eight open-hearth
casting ladies'; land four casting Fit iadie
trucks.
One small and twelve large heating fur
naces with regenerators and hydraulic
lifting doors; three heating furnaces for
temperinS, fired along the sides; sixteen re-
generative car-bottom cementing furnaces,
with hydraulic appliances; one special face
hardening spray apparatus with Ice tank
and pressure pumps, and two circular tanks
thirty feet diameter by fifteen feet deep.
One electric charging machine and twelve
cast steel open-hearth charging boxes. One
hydraulic forge press 1900 gross tons
pressure and one hydraulic bending press,
i,3o gross tons pressure. Two 16O-ton and
two 15-ton electric overhead travelling
cranes, with special hydraulic lifts;
lGO-ton, one 100-ton, five 15-ton, one J0-ton.
one 2O-ton and pne 5-ton electric overhead
travelling craneB. One special portable
grinder Two heavy universal boring, drill
ing and milling machines; three heavy open
side planers; two heavy pit planers; one
heavy cutting-off planer; two heavy post
planers; two heavy platen planers; four
HedEy universal qrltiHS HdcHileS, TWO
heavy radial drills; two heavy circular
planers; two emery grinders; three trepan-
ming tools; eighteen lathes of varying sizes;
sixteen water-tAbe boilers of go horse
power EACH ten smiths forges; four steam
hammers, $500 to 800 pounds weight; three
sets of electric multfpoiar generators; about
twenty-five electric motors; about 10000
feet Of standard-gauge railroad track and
5000 feet of narrow.guage track; five loco
motives; about 100 cars Of different styles.
and complete lathing outfit.
Dependent Bpon Congress.
The circular concludes as follows
1.-THE department .presumes that. should
an appropriation be- made by Congress for
the erection Of this plant, successful bid
ders will be required to enter into contract
! and give satisfactory bond in penal sum.
either fixed by Congress or to be fixed by
the department, for the performance there
of within the time specified in their pro-
posals.
1.-The bidders will distinctly understand
that no such APPROPRIATION has yet been
| made, and that notnonly is the usual right
or all bids, but that under the statute au-
thorizing this advertisement, the depart
ment will report to congress the receipt of
all bids made. and await its further action
"The time in which the work can be de-
]ivered or completed must be stated in the
bid, and, in considering the bids, weight
will be given to this statement, and, also
to any statement which bidders make as to
the security which they Will furnish for the
faithful performance Of any contract
awarded to the n"