Evening journal., 1918-03-01
WHERE ARE WE At!
Riohf NV We Have Rifle for Every Man and
Then Some

were placed for 100000 rifles, i,ioO,-
600 Of these to be Of the modified En-
field type, $4,000 to be our standard
springnelds. The orders were placed
as follows:
Remington Arms Company. Eddy
stone plant. 725,000.
Remington Arms Company, Ilon
plant. 10000.
Winchester Repeating Arms Com
pany. $4,000.
Springfield armory. 100000.
Rock Island arsenal, 10000.
These orders gave us. on hand and
under order, 2,i96.i6i rifles. or some
5000 rifles more than our outside estl-
mated needs
a revised estimate made February i3,
places our requirements at 1926 600 for
the FIRST half Of 1918
Despite the delays resulting from the
changes required IN the British rifle
and the extensions necessary at the
Rock Island and Springfield plants
there were produced on these orders
before January T. 1918. the following
guns:
Remington, Eddystone plant 1854.
Remington Ilion plant. i16H
W nch ster, i02.Cis.
/ Springfield armory 91i19.
Rock Island arsenal 22230
/ Making a total new production, prior
/ TO January 4. Of i0e.9i2 rifles or a total
on hand January 4, including Spring
fields on hand at the outbreak of war,
Of 9S3.373.
The Remington and Winchester
plants. however, were just getting into
/ quantity production at the first Of The
( year. In January the output Of rifles
was slightly above i750O0 The Feb-u-
arv schedule called for 10000 guns
from the Eddystone plant OF the Rem
ingt0n alone, $1,000 from the Ilon
plant $500 from the Winchester 26,
/ i0O from the Springfield arsenal and
$500 from Rock Island.
But instead Of the guns scheduled
for February, production Is actually
RUM ng ahead Of schedule, and is now
approxlmatlng 10000 per day.
Despite the delay resulting from
changes required, our daily produc-
ton OF rifles at the end OF the FIRST
four times as great as the daily pro-
duction in Great Britain ten months
/ after war was declared and twice as
much as the daily production in Great
Britain two and one-half years after
she entered the war.
In addition to the 2i95,46l rifles now
ordered or IN the hands Of troops, esti-
mates have been prepared for the pro-
duction OF an ad litional 10000 rifles
This would make a grand total OF
3.905e6i rifles--all Of which, under
present established capacity, can be
produced before January 1919
Inasmuch as less than 60 per cent
Of the men in service carry rifles this
would provide two rides for every mar
who should have a rife IN an army o.
. more than 3,25OO0O
! While service rifles were being pro
duced in quantities 70 supply all troop
q on the feld or In training. use was mad
OF 10000 Krass, 100000 Russian rife
q arsd 10000 Ross rifles for training pur
, poses only
= Today. however, all men IN camp ar
o equipped with the new rifles, ever
> man abroad has his full equipment an
there is at home and abroad a rapid
. increasing surplus more than suflcien
to replace wastage and supply new In
2 crements Of troops as they are raised.
n our rifle program has not for on
day delayed the sending Of troop
abroad
, The net result OF the changes mad
4 has simply been 10 give our Who'll
4 army weapons using a uniform ammu
4 milton and weapons Of a superior typ
10 those they otherwise would hav
p had-and to supply them In quanttie
a sufficient TO give every man his gu
- before he was ready to take his plac
r. on the battle line