| Show WHAT IT COSTS TO BOMBARD bomhard A cirt CITY that thai war is an expensive occupation the british government and people are beginning ta to understand by means of augmented taxes and the th opening odthe of the fire of th the allies aples sugg Fugg suggests ests a caie calculation cu lation as to the cost of the iron balls which have been thrown into sebastopol sevastopol Seba by the five iii lit indred hundred cannon which have vomited them in in what Gorts chakoff called an infernal fire 2 the accounts by the asia represent that each of these guns fired one hundred aid ard arid vid twenty rounds a day which gives a total for the five hundred of sixty thou thousand sand sard rounds this fire had been continued for thirteen days making an aggregate of seven hundred and eighty thousand ml missiles it s siles rained upon the city the weight of the shot fired from the nuns runs of the allies varies probably from nineteen to one hundred and forty pounds and the shells sheils from fifteen to one hundred and ten pounds and for ty five pounds would probably be a low estimate 1 1 or an average this would give a daily delivery of iron to the russians amounting to two millions seven hundred thousand pounds and a total for the thirteen days of thirty nive fire millions one hundred thousand points the prime cost of w which aich in the rough at the average price of pig iron in england for forthe the last year was not less than three hundred and thirteen thousand three lit bundred hundred indred and eighty dollars this is of course co lirse without any regard to the enormous cost of transportation to the crimea if the cannon balls fired from the allied lines during the thirteen days were rolled into rail I 1 bars weighing sixty pounds to the yard vard the I 1 bars would extend three hundred and miles or if laid us a railroad would suan suffice je for far k a single track road from few new york to albany with all the turnouts turn outs the charge of powder for each gun gu would average about six pound pounds wirch wilch would show an expenditure for the thirteen ey days if four millions six hundred and eighty thousand theu then I 1 pounds of powder pov der such stich is is worth here eighteen teen feen cents a pound but in england would il not riot probably cost more than eifle 11 ft V n e n at which price the powder cost cst gevert even h un e 1 and a nd two thousand dollars N Y courier cour ar a r n en J n i |
