From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/24/1898, p. 8, c. 5

PROJECTILES OF WAR
FIVE CAR-LOADS TO BE SHIPPED FROM HERE TO-DAY.
FULFILLMENT OF AN OLD CONTRACT.
They Are for the Army – The Work Has Been Inspected and Is Very Satisfactory – First Order Placed Here Since the War.

The Tredegar Iron-Works will ship five car-loads of projectiles to New York to-day in fulfillment of the contract entered into some months ago between the United States Government and the management of the works.

The first shipment was made last September, and the date set for the completion of the contract has been anticipated by four months. Eleven hundred projectiles were ordered ranging in weight from 1,000 to 300 pounds. The largest one measures four feet in length and twelve inches in diameter.

They have been manufactured under the personal supervision of Mr. A. C. Meagher, the local inspector of the Ordnance Department, and each projectile has been inspected and approved.

There is no significance to be attached to this shipment to-day, as it is merely the fulfillment of an old contract, and the projectiles are intended for the army, and not for the navy.

Mr. Glasgow said last night that no attempt had been made on the part of the government to hasten the fulfillment of the order, but the work has been pushed forward at the works. It has met with the complete satisfaction of the department, and inasmuch as it is the first order given to the Tredegar since the war, it is hoped that the expeditious and satisfactory manner in which the work has been done may lead to further favors from the government.

Mr. Meagher having completed his labors here, expects to leave for Washington in a day or so.

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