| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| February 7, 1862 |
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| The North Carolina Arsenal |
| Captain John C. Booth, Superintendent of
the North Carolina Arsenal and Foundry, situated at Fayetteville, writes to the Baton Rouge Gazette as follows: |
| My foundry will cover about three or four
acres. My laboratory is shaping itself into a chej d'auvre, and I have
the best chief in the world. I am getting out timber for one hundred
field batteries and five hundred heavy gun carriages; the latter,
however, will be made principally of iron. My rifle factory has just
begun to work, and we ship to-morrow one hundred to
Richmond. Then I am building a railroad connecting me with the road to the
iron and coal mines, which also gives me
communication with the river and steamboats. You will get a better
idea of the magnitude of my establishment from the statement of the
fact that the Government has contracted for ten thousand tons of pig
iron to be delivered here, with the privilege of increasing the amount
to twenty thousand tons. |
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