The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-07-18
WILL LOAD $4,000
SHELLS EACH DAY
GREAT GOVERNMENT PLANT IN
NEW JERSEY TO START SHIP
MENTs BEFORE LONG.
IS LARGEST IN THE WORLD

Three Others Like It Being Construct
es.-Medical Department Has mob'''
Apparatus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.
(Yrom Committee on Public Information.
Washlngton.-Q Quantity If not capnc
ity shipments will start soon from q
new government Shcll-lOading factory
In New Jersey, one of four such gov.
ernment plants each of which is larger
than any similar plant In the world
When turning out $1,000 loaded
shells q day under full operation the
plant will use 1000 tons Of shells and
explosives daily, the products of some
rs factories. More than 5000 work
men will be required. Plans contem-
plate the employment of large num-
Der Of women. The marking Of shells
to designate size, load ana range will
require 25O.OOO operations each day.
The plant has n total area Of approx
imntcly $500 acres. More than 100
buildings, with an aggregate floor
space of I 300. 600 square feet, Will pro-
vide storage for shells and parts and
for material A small city, with heat
Ing and lighting plants, water and Sow
age systems. hospitals, fire lighting
plant and restaurants was built to
house the employees. There is equip
mcnt to protect the health of those
who work with poisonous gases. and
la,
Ing of artillery ammunition with high
explosives.
The operating plant consists Of 13
shell~loadlng units, each independent
Of tho other, with equipment for load
Ing 13 sizes Of shells, ranging from the
recently developed T-millimeter to 16
inches. On two sizes Of shells the pro-
pelling charge also will be loaded. the
shell and cartridge case being assem-
bled at the plant. All other shells are
assembled in France.
In the construction Of the she'll
loading units the problem was far
greater than one OF nero building I'm
mensc fans have been installed to dis
pose Of the poisonous fumes from the
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