Dahlgren 



Indian Head and Dahlgren locations 



Following a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of providing 

 guns to the Allies, the committee chairman, Hon. Lemuel P. Padgett, referred 

 to the bottom of page 39 of the Book of Estimates then under examination 

 which provided for "increasing facilities for the proof and tests of ordnance 



15, 1917, he inquired of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company their price for 

 stringing a telephone line between Indian Head and Upper Machodoc Creek, the future site of 

 Dahlgren. The phone company was cautioned not to "in any way disclose the Bureau's plans as 

 such are merely under consideration."^ 



