, and
buildings of every description, together with repairs, were estimated at
$155,500. The other expenses, exclusive of the cost of stock and parts
of work on hand, amounted to $1,553,100; stock and parts of muskets on
hand, $111,545; and the total expenditures, from the commencement of the
works, to December, 1817, $1,820,120.18.

From the establishment of the armory to the present date there have been
manufactured 1,097,660 muskets, 250 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 1,202
carbines, 8,660 musketoons, 4,806 cadets' arms, 18 model muskets, and 16
model pistols and rifles. The reader will be surprised, perhaps, to
learn, that there were 1,020 more muskets manufactured at these works
during the year 1811 than in the year 1854. In 1850 and 1851, 113,406
muskets were altered in their locks, from flint to percussion, involving
an amount of labor equal to the manufacture of 7,630 muskets. From 1809
to 1822, inclusive of those years, and exclusive of 1811 and 1812,
nearly 50,000 muskets were repaired, involving labor equal to the
manufacture of 11,540 muskets.

In addition to the large number of muskets manufactured at the
Government works in Springfield, and which amount to upwards of three
hundred thousand per annum, there are a vast number of private
establishments throughout the Northern States, which turn out from two
to five thousand muskets per month each. These various manufactories are
situated at Hartford, Norfolk, Windsor Locks, Norwich, Middletown,
Meriden, and Whitneyville, Ct., Providence, R.I., Manchester, N.H.,
Windsor, Vt., Trenton, N.J., Bridesburg, Pa., and New York City,
Watertown, and Ilion, N.Y. Besides these, there are more than fifty
establishments where separate parts of the musket are manufactured in
large quantities, and purchased by Government to supply the places of
those injured or destroyed in the service. It is estimated that the
private armories alone are manufacturing monthly upwards of sixty
thousand rifled muskets. The Government contracts for these arms extend
to January next, and the total number which will then have been produced
will be enormous. The cost of manufacturing a musket at the Government
works is estimated at about nine dollars; but the contract-price to the
private arms-companies is twenty dollars for those which equal the
Government standard in every respect, nineteen dollars and ninety cents
for those which lack a little in finish, nineteen dollars for the next
grade, eighteen