The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
INDIAN HEAD.
James D. Deshong, Former Teacher Of
This County, Gives Much Information
Of Very interesting Place.

the gun can be hred, with some
allowance to permit the big
death dealing machine to be cool
ed between each round. Guns
of smaller cahber are put through
the same general processes and
some interesting statistics are
furnished by recent experiments
at the proving grounds.
SOME SAMPLE TESTS.
A IL inch gun, for instance,
weighing SO tons and being so
feet long, hurls an $50 pound pro
jectile from Its muzzle ut speed
of $500 feet IN second of time.
The energy behind this big shot
is scientifically figured out as
58, 22l tons, which would send
the projectile clear through "a
inches OF the hardest steel placed
near The guns muzzle. When
the projectile has travelled 1000
yards 1t is still moving at the rate
of 2,6l9 feet per second, just
sufficient to carry 1t through 2lt
inches of harveyized nickel steel,
or>l7 inches of Krupp armor.
AT 1000 yards 1t moves 2,450
feet per second and would pierce
nearly 20 inches of hai veyized
steel, or nearly 16 inches of
Krupp. At 5000 yards 1t would
still be going at the rate of 1921
feet per second and would go
through 18 inches of harveyized
s.eel or 144 inches of Krupp.
Turning to the smaller guns, a
half dozen or more of which may
be ranged in battery on one
side of the Indian Head ravine,
the tests show that a IA FOUNDER,
3 inch bore rapid fire rifle, weigh
ing little more. than three quar-
ters of ton, throws a IA pound
projectile from Its muzzle at the
enormous rate of 3,000 feet a
second. THIS arm designed for
use in the secondary batteries of
battleships and large cruisers,
and It's mission is to attack the
unarmored portions and gun
decks of an enemy's ships. Its
projectiles, and they can be
fred as fast as the gun crew can
load them into the breecl of tn e
weapon, will go through 4 inches
of the hardest steel at 1000 yards
and about II inches at 5000
yards. With specially capped
projectlles an increased thickness
of from Is to 20 per cent may be
penetrated.
Between the deep believing of
the big rifles there Is always
present at Indian Head the rattle
and bang of the machine guns
and small arms. Ease of manip.
ula tion and speed In firing are
the desideratum of these classes
of weapons, and the professors
of warology who work themselves
into a perspiratlon In determln.
ing the merits of these little
fel.ows-little only In comparison
with the giants that are pounding
away at butts and sections of ar.
NOR plate propped up at the
base of the hills. One of these
little automatic guns is found to
send 20 proj,ctiles from it's muz-
zle every minute, each projectne
weighing three pounds and
travelling so fast that the first 65
reach a target two miles distant
before the SEVENTEEN leaves the
gun barrel.
| When velocity TRIALS are being
conducted the projectiles are
fired at targets at known dis
tance, or through the screens al.
ready referred to, in which case
the missiles find a lodging place
In a bank of dirt technically de-
signated as a butt" Some OF
the Indian Head hills carry In
their lacerated bosoms hundreds
of tons of metal that has been
fired into these butts.
ARMoR Is TESTED To.
| All armor used for the protec-
tion OF the battleships and other
vessels Of the navy Is tested at
Indian Head before acceptance.
A full section of the plate is
mounted upright on a buttress
at the foot Of hill. The harden