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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...of manufacture from the casting of the ingots to the finishing of the gun. The Board would require an itemized statement of buildings, tools, hammers, or apparatus, with estimates of cost. Whether you conclude to consider this proposition or not, the Board requests a reply to its communication, and will be glad to answer any question you may be pleased to present. Respectfully, E. SIMPSON, Commodore, United States Navy, President of the Board. APPENDIX B. Circular letter to South Boston Iron Company and to Paulding, Kemble & Co. Commandant's Office, Navy-yabd, League Island, Philadelphia, May 1, 1883. Gentlemen: Referring to your communications of December 15,1882, and January, 1882, to the honorable the Secretary of the Navy, and the Chief of Ordnance, War Department, in relation to the establishment of a plant capable of manufacturing the heaviest ordnance required for modern warfare, the Board asks your attention to the inclosed copy of a precept issued by the President of the United States in accordance with an act of Congress. Your consideration is also requested of the inclosed copy of a communication addressed by the Board, constituted by the above-mentioned act, to the steel manufacturers of the United States. 55 The act of Congress tinder which the present Board is organized is in the direction pointed out by your communications above referred to, and the Board will be glad if you will revise your proposition, and so modify it as to reply to the interrogatory submitted as a problem in the inclosed letter to the steel manufacturers, as follows: "Given your present plant, what aid would you require from the Government in order so to enlarge it as to be able to manufacture the heaviest ordnance, the work to include the entire process of manuf...