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hii^licr levels. A lar^e sand business is carried on on Long Island 

 where the beach sands are pumped or sucked up through tubes and 

 loaded onto barges for shipment. Among the more important 

 glacial dcix3sits containing sand beds are elevated deltas of fonner 

 streams emptying into the glacial lakes, kames and beaches and bars 

 of the former glacial lakes. 



The building sand business is carried on usually to supply a 

 local demand, since, owing to the widespread occurrence of sand, 

 very little need be shipped. The larger cities are all well supplied 

 with material close at hand. New York city obtains its supply 

 mainly from the Long Island beaches. Buffalo has a good supply 

 on the shores of Lake Erie, although most of it is sliipped from the 

 Canadian shore. Rochester is supplied by the large glacial deposits 

 known as Pinnacle and Cobb's hills. Syracuse obtains sand from 

 the glacial deposits surrounding the city, and Albany is supplied 

 from the large terraces north of the city along the river. 



This year, the first attempt was made to collect statistics and the 

 results are far from "being complete. The sand producers are so 

 numerous, and the industry is so widespread and so unstable that 

 to gather together all the production, specially that of building sand, 

 is an almost impossible task.- 



The following table gives the production by uses of the various 

 sands in 1908, with the 1907 production as published by the United 

 States Geological Survey included for comparison. 



L'nder the heading " Other sands " are included glass sand (one 

 producer), fire sand, polishing sand, etc. The gravel includes gravel 

 for road making, for concrete and for roofing. 



Production of sand and gravel 



MATERIAL 



Molding sand. 



Core sand 



Building sand. 

 Other sanda. . 

 Gravel 



925 028 



51 271 



251 548 



Total . 



Si 767 521 



666 809 



4.S 368 



120 453 



130 291 



a Includes glass sand, fire sand, furnace sand, filter sand, engine sand and polishing sa ' 



