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Show SOME VAG GUNS. OUR HEAVIEST ORDNANCE TO BE MANUFACTURED AT HOME. Interrntlnu Figure From Ihe Annu il Report Re-port of the t hlel of the Ilurrau of Ordnance Awaiting1 Iteriultt of Further Teat. Washington, Nov. 21. Tho annual report of Commodore Folger, chief of the bureau of ordinance, which is lengthy, estimates the appropriations necessary to next year's work at something some-thing over $4,500,000. llesays tools for the manufacture of thirteen-inch guns arc being constructed. It is thought this will bo the largest gun ever likely to be needed for naval purposes. Tho bureau contemplates issuing six-inch guns of 35-caIlbre to fast cruisers, and propose to make no more gnus of 30-calibre 30-calibre length. ? |