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Show GUN DIVISION OP ORDNANCE BUREAU A summary of the work of the Qua DlvWoa ot the Bureau of Ordnance Ord-nance shows it has beea necessary to equip 16 large plants for raanu-faetaro'ot raanu-faetaro'ot mobUo artillery, caaaon. Tho total program of theOua Division Divi-sion calls for aa expenditure pf almost al-most 13,000,000,000. The major projects have Included: Construction of smokeless powder plants In face ot tho necessity' ot doubling the present output. These are aow underway. 1 Xxaoadltare ot approximately 140-'00,900 140-'00,900 for pUat facilities to maau-jficture maau-jficture artillery cannon, with aa estimate that f300.000.000 will be spent for caaaon alone within two ysars after thf beglsaing 'of tho war. " Preparations for the erection I of iaUata to extract toluol from the 11- lumlpattng gas 'being furnished the cities by private gas companies. Conservation ot the supply of am- , monlum nitrate and acids and con- "' f-BtrucUoa f-BtrucUoa at Government oxpoaso of "" a plant for the fixation of nitrogen and Its final coaversion Into .ammonium .am-monium nitrate. , i " Construction, nowendertakea.ot , a gas tilling planto cost apprexlm- ! V ateiy 91.600.000 and fits largo shell T ? filling plants, with a total cost of ,A, 126.000.000.4 ( ', |