Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-04-05

Of the belt. decreasing from ia
feet to 81 feet. at which depth II
will be continued another 60 feet.
Transverse bulk heads of the same
thickness as the belt will be car.
ried across tile ship.
Instead of the side armor being
placed horizontally ir two strips
with continuous horizonal joints
just above the water line. as has
been the custom in battleship
building heretofore, the srmor
plates on the new battlaships will
be laid vertically and without a
joint at the water line. 1t is de-
clared this system will remove
danger at the ships most vulner.
able point.
Two protective decks will afford
excellent protection against plung-
ing fire and against fragments of
shells which may be exploded in
passing through the ships tin
plating in the wake of the gun
deck.
The lower protective deck will
be Il inches thick on the fiat,
which will slope along the sides at
junction with the bottom of the
armnr plate 81 feet below the
water line. On the deck above
the gun deck will he an upper
protective deck three inches in
thickness.
The armor protection Of the
main sun positions also will be
massive in character. The bar
bette armOr will extend with a
thickness OF thirteen inches from
the turret down TO the upper pro-
pective deck and from the lower
pro teciive deck the thiClress
will he reduced to 81 inches-this
becausr Of the thirtceE-inch pro-
lection of tin side armor. The
tufret armur also will he massive.
The port plate will he sixteen
inches in the two gun turrets and
eighteen inches on the three gun
turrets. and the side and rear
armor will be between eight and
nine inches in thickness, while the
roof will carry five inches of
amor.
The armament of the Oklahoma
and Nevada will consist of ten
fourUeen-inch guns carried III four
turrets. One three-gun tu-ret,
then n two-gun turret. On the
quarter deck will be a two-gun
turret and Astern of that three
gun turret. This arrangement. il
is declared at the navy department,
will give a concentration of fire
much superior to that OF the New
York and Texas. which will be
mounted with five two-gun turrets
when completed
The fourteen inch 45.caliber gun
is a far more powerful weapon
than the 54-Calibrr twelve-inch
gun mounted on the Delaware and
the North Dakota. The muzzle
energy of the twrlve-inch piece is
about i0,000.foot tons. Its shell.
which weighs l,400 pounds. as
comrared with the so pound shell
Of the twclvc-inch, carries a much
larger bursting charge of high
explosives and therefore will be
more destructive.
Both battlcships will he of the
oil burning class, the supply
being carried in the double bottom
Of the ships. The use Of oil will
eliminate tho necessity for coal
bunkers and tho space generally oc-
cupied by these will be used in the
concentration Of the ships boilers,
thereby neccsstating but one smoke
stack. an unusual feature for ships
of the kind.
The Fall River and United
States shipbuilding companies,
which have the contracts for the
construction of the vessels, are
expected to begin work on them
within n few weeks. - Exchange.
In the list Of bills allowed is one
on the Jarbidge road fund for
/ $188.S5 to the Jacb idge. .Deeti
Stage company. This amour, wal
allowed in two bills one for Sl74
and the other for $14.85. Tn,
smaller amount was for stage fare
and meals furnished AN INDECENT