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Show SPtNTPOR WAR WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Many-new Many-new construction projects for the army, including munition plants, ordnance ord-nance depots, storage plants, port terminals, ter-minals, hospitals, aviation works, cantonments can-tonments and housing were disclosed In a statement given the senate military mili-tary committee today by the war department. de-partment. The work will cost a total of $26S,650,000 and, while some of tho projects had been announced before, in most cases the location and? cost had not been given. The statement shows that ?37,000,-000 ?37,000,-000 will be spent in building a gas-making gas-making plant at Edgewood, N. J., while forty interior storage depots to cost an aggregate of $30,00,000, are to be erected and at unnamed points on aviation work, including a new cantonment, can-tonment, the location of which was not given, $-16,000,000 will be expended. ex-pended. Ordnance depots are to be built on the south Atlantic coast and at "some seaport" at a cost of $4,000,000 each and one on the middle Atlantic coast at a cost of $6,000,000. An ammunition ammuni-tion depot at "some seaport" is to cost $7,500,000, and a like sum is to bo expended for an ordnance depot in central Pennsylvania. Hospitals for soldiers suffering from tuberculosis are to be built at Denver, Colo., and Ashevillc, N. C. at a cost of $500,000 each and $12,800,000 is to be spent on hospitals at thirty-two army training camps. A division cantonment for the regular regu-lar army is to cost $8,000,000, but its location was not given. Eight millions will be spent on a port terminal at Boston, Mass., and $10,000,000 on a similar terminal at Charleston, S. C. Two millions are provided for three powder bag loading points at sites not yet selected. For housing for the shipping board to relieve congestion in shipyard com-munij.ies com-munij.ies the department plants to expend ex-pend $35,000,000. This will represent a part of the $50,000,000 for this purpose pur-pose provided in a bill which passed the house today. In addition to this, $600,000 will be .expended at Newport News, Va., for housing the negro stevedore regiments engaged there in loading vessels. Brigadier General Littell, in charge of cantonment division and other construction con-struction jobs, also submitted statements state-ments to the committee, showing that in addition to the new work, his bureau bu-reau has charge of construction now in progress calling for an expenditure of $135,900,000, making the total for present and future work $404,550,000. .nn |