This is for shells of all sizes, and the estimate to me was of an average cost of two pounds, or ten dollars, per shell.

Some of the big German shells cost as high as $500 each.
In some kinds of shrapnel, holding 300 bullets, there are more than thirty pieces of mechanism.
Within forty-eight hours after England declared war she had engaged the total output of an American manufacturer, whose machinery was an important part of the shell-making business.

An American factory in Connecticut received orders for $25,000,000 worth of cartridges which would mean, at five cents a cartridge, 500,000,000 rounds of ammunition.

I know of a single order to America from England for 10,000,000 horseshoes.
Through a single agency in America more than $150,000,000 worth of war-supplies was placed several weeks ago.

I do not know whether this included a single order, of which I have knowledge, for 3,000,000 American rifles, delivered over three years at $30 a rifle, or $90,000,000.