[40] Part of General Hospital No. 10, Boston, Mass.

Table 3.—Approximate quantities of materials purchased by materials branch, Construction Division, June 15, 1917, to Dec. 15, 1918.
Item. Quantity. Cost. Remarks.
Brick 325,783,400 $2,631,799 Would build a road 18 feet wide approximately 380 miles long, or equal to the distance from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh; loaded in cars having a capacity of 15,000 brick, would require 21,720 cars to load.
Lumber [41]2,647,605,426 69,773,825 If considered 1-inch pieces 12 inches wide and placed end to end, would reach 500,000 miles, or 20 times the circumference of the earth. It would take 175,000 cars to haul this material, figuring 15,000 feet board measure material to each car. Figuring each car 35 feet long, would make a train 1,160 miles long, or the distance from Washington, D. C., to Kansas City. Total weight, 5,000,000 tons.
Wood stave pipe [41]2,900,080 2,325,000 If placed in one single line, would extend 550 miles. This is approximately the same miles of pipe as all of the water and gas lines in the city of New Orleans, La., which supplies a population between 400,000 and 500,000 people.
Structural steel [42] 64,000 6,311,092 This would require 1,000 cars having a capacity of 80,000 pounds each. It would require structural-steel shops employing 100 men fabricating 2,000 tons per month three years to complete the fabrication. This is sufficient material to erect twenty 20-story buildings 75 feet square.
Roofing [43]1,400,000 $3,650,000 Sufficient to roof 5 square miles, or would roof 100,000 ordinary houses of 14 squares to each house.
Cable [44]1,103,560 257,233 Approximately 210 miles.
Copper wire [44]33,283,000 1,409,600 6,303 miles.
Cement [45]6,181,194 13,723,153 36,148 car loads, approximately, of 171 barrels to car load. Loaded on cars 35 feet total length, would make one train 239 miles long, or greater than the distance from Boston to New York.

[41] Feet.

[42] Tons.

[43] Squares of 100 square feet.

[44] Feet.

[45] Barrels.

Procurement branch during period of 18 months, June 15, 1917, to December 15, 1918, purchased and allocated materials to the amount of $245,115,443.