The Springfield Armory

Work at tbis Hrmory ia beifig presaecl forward aa rapidly as the present contracted aocommodationa will permit,- ' Ni'-ht work is soon to ba commenoea, ■ and within a month the niunber of workmen will be increased to one thousand, and the produotion of arms to threo hundred per day, or seveo thousand 6ve buadred per inonth. An appropriation ai half a milliori dollars was made by Congress for nev. huiidinga, and two hundred thonsand dollars for .ne.w machinery. The work oí erectiiT the now bundinga will be oornmèncéd specdily. Tlurteen acres oí KTOUDd! have7 been selocted, and the plans for tho buildings are ho oxtensive that it is thought that when complotod, lrom ten lo filteört tbousand stand ol arms can bo iiianut'actni-ed per month. The water shrps- steain beug used exclusively in thu ncw factories- aan bc oonverted iuo oanooo foundéries, ! or ior tho preparatibn of American iron : for tbs rifle barrels. At present all the i - ircm used for tlj# purpose is imported ; England. ♦ The new nroiory buildings will probahly consist of a series of four briok buildings, each five bundred feet long, running Nortli and South, fifty foet apart, and connectod it right angles through the coatre with a tif'th : building, ono 'nundred and fifty feot long. ïhe inain or front shop will bo llirt'o atories high, The thred parallel buildings will bo e:ich one story, the firat of thftin being occupied for the stcara enginos and boilers, and lor storing coiil, the second as tho forging shop, and the third for proving and other special purposes. The buildings conneeting the series at right angles will be of three stories, and with the front building wül ho occupied for the lighter detuiU i the business. The plan also contemplates a new oilice building and storo house, to bo ocated North oí tho vvork-shops, and on a range wi;.h Superintendente house and the present reafttances of (heclorks.