The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-07-10

called Old Hickory, and which pro-
duced no powder that could be used
in the war.
We spent many millions. the exact
amount being unknown, for the pro-
duction of tanks, and did not produce
a single tank that reached the front
before the armistice. To complete
our tank program we needed 1900
tanks, which were to cost $25, 900
each. To build these we started an
immense steel and concrete factory
in France, which was to assemble and
turn out 100 of these tanks a day,
or the entire supply in twelve days.
The British were to furnish the guns
and m and ship them to France
for assembly, while we were to fur
nish the engines and running gear,
and ship them to France for assem-
bly,. The British supplied their part,
but we supplied nothing. The fac
tory was unfinished at the armistice
and never produced anything.
We spent $116.1 ,973.37 on nitrate
plants at Sheffield, Alabama; Muscle
Shoals, Alabama; Toledo, Ohio; and
Cincinnati, Ohio. These plants did
not produce a pound of nitrate that
could be used in the war.
We spent $116, 1914, 974.37 on nitrate.
Not a pound of American gas was
ever fired in an American shell, and
only about 100 tons of American gas
loaded in shells, ever reached the
field dumps.
The government built three picric-
acid plants and seven plants to make
phenol and acid required by them.
This was to furnish picric acid for
the French, who desired it for explo-
sives. None of these plants produced
a pound. The plants cost us $35 ,000,-
900. The French were to pay the
whole bill, but the war department
settled with France for $4,000 900.
We spent $17,116,OO0 in construct
ing a port terminal at Charleston,
South Carolina. 1t was built in an
isolated swamp ten miles up the
Cooper River, where it was neces-
sary to dredge to reach it. There
never was a pound of produce, a man
or an animal shipped either u of or
in to this terminal during the war.
We spent 1927, Gel 900 for port
terminals at Boston. Brooklyn. New.
ark Philadelphia, Norfolk, Charles
ton and New Orleans. Some of them
were no finished and one of them
were used for anything except stor-
age during the war.
The ordinance department spent
1891, 4S9,570.4S from the beginning
of the war until June 1, 1919, as
much as it cost to finance the Civil
War. A large part of it was spent
in a program of manufacturing ar
tillery and ammunition. This is what
we got for it:
We had f%fty-three contracts for
37-millimeter shells, on which we ex-
pended S9,134,5S2. Not one of these
shells ever reached our firing line.
We had $50 contracts for 75-milli-
meter shells, on which we expended
$001 ,941 ,459. OF these shells. we fired
5000.
We had 142 contracts for three-inch
shells. on which we expended $44,-
81, 844. None of these shells ever
reached the firing line.
We had 439 contracts for Al shells,
on which we expended $41, 716.051. OF
these shells $4,000 were fired by our
forces.
We had 305 contracts for 6-inch
shells, on which we expended $24,-
1S9,O75. None of these eve reached
the firing line.
We had Gil contracts for 155-milli-
meter shells, on which we expended
$26i, 1855, 1887. None of these ever
reached the firing line.
We had 201 contracts for eight-inch
she'll, on which we expended $751;
81 .207. None of these ever reached